The Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC) seeks an established, experienced, motivated, and efficient contractor/organization that possesses demonstrated strong skills in event planning, meeting facilitation, data collection and interpretation, narrative report writing, marketing, and public relations. The awarded vendor is expected to work with the DDC to assist with planning, facilitating, and information gathering. The contractors anticipated staff roles must be defined in the proposal. The website https://itacchelp.org/ will assist any offers with the expected timeline. The awarded vendor is to gather the reports and compose the final report. The plan will be developed, written, and submitted by the DDC. The Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC) is preparing to begin the strategic planning process for developing and submitting their 2027-2031 Strategic/State Plan. The DDC is funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD), which operates under the Administration on Community Living (ACL) under the umbrella of the federal Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS). Each state and U.S. Territory has a Developmental Disabilities Council, whose work is guided by the requirements of the federal DD Act. Every five years, Councils must create a new Strategic Plan, and ensure that they gather input from the communities that they serve to ensure that needs are being met. The strategic planning process takes approximately one year and involves a variety of required activities including planning and facilitating meetings with leadership from other Councils, planning and facilitating focus groups, creating, marketing and distributing surveys, coordination/facilitation of public forums, and compiling a final comprehensive report with all information gathered. Contractor shall conduct targeted outreach activities to diverse populations, to include but not limited to: Hispanic/Latino, Haitian Creole, etc.
