All correspondence must be made through the Vendor Portal. Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Los Angeles Unified School District seeks established vendors with substantial experience providing College Access services and resources to students in middle and high schools and their parents devised to help overcome internal and external barriers to college attendance and enhance confidence in their capacity to acquire a college education. In particular, the District requires access to a range of college access tools, resources, materials and options to support students who would represent the first generation of their family to go to college and students in targeted populations (e.g., underserved students in higher education, current or former foster youth, students who are or have experienced homelessness, English Language Learners, students receiving Special Education services and students experiencing poverty). Any contract(s) resulting from this Request for Proposal (RFP) will be for the provision of direct services to schools and school communities, and District personnel working with schools, concomitant with that goal. College Access services will, by default, employ various modes of delivery including virtual online synchronous and asynchronous and address the particular needs of different grade spans and student/parent populations. The intent is to provide school principals and District staff the option of selecting from a range of pre-established College Access service provider resources of varying lengths of time, specificity and price to find the service that suits their students’ and parents’ needs best.
