Rural and Employment Transportation Services

Valley Transit is seeking competitive proposals for Rural and Employment Transportation Services in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. The procurement consists of two distinct service programs: the Outagamie County Rural Service and the Outagamie County Employment Transportation Service. The Rural Service provides demand-responsive paratransit transportation exclusively for elderly and disabled passengers in non-urbanized areas of the county. The Employment Transportation Service offers an origin-to-destination shared ride demand-response service connecting passengers' residences to specific job sites in the Fox Valley, with each job site location having available connections to Valley Transit bus routes. This service is open to the public. The Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued on June 11, 2021, with key dates including a written question submission deadline of June 23, 2021, and addenda distributed on June 25, 2021. The proposal submittal deadline is July 13, 2021 at 10:00 AM, with an estimated contract award date of August 5, 2021, and contract commencement scheduled for January 1, 2022. Proposers are expected to be qualified, experienced contractors capable of meeting the comprehensive transportation service requirements.

The RFP document does not explicitly mention specific set-aside designations or restrictions on responding organizations. No information about disadvantaged enterprise requirements or incumbent vendors is provided in the available documentation. The solicitation references 2021 rates as the basis for pricing, but specific financial details such as budget ranges or award values are not disclosed in the summary. The procurement appears to be a standard competitive bidding process open to qualified transportation service providers. While the full RFP document is 15MB in size and likely contains more detailed information about qualifications, evaluation criteria, and potential financial parameters, the current excerpt does not provide comprehensive financial or organizational constraint details. Potential bidders would need to review the complete RFP document to fully understand the scope of financial expectations and organizational requirements for this transportation services contract.