Funding Opportunities

RFI: Public Utilities Commission Trial Staff

The Colorado Department of Law announces this Request for Information for a lawyer or legal services firm to represent the Trial Staff of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission and serve as Special Assistant Attorneys General in connection with certain energy-related matters for the PUC.

DEADLINE (UPDATED): Proposals may be submitted no later than 12 noon MT on Jan. 31, 2022.  Proposals should be submitted in pdf format to the DOL’s Procurement Team via email at procurement@coag.gov, and any questions also should be sent to that email address.

Previous funding opportunities

RFP: Job task analysis

Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training seeks to review and update the content and delivery of the curriculum required of the Basic Law Enforcement Training Academy to reflect changes in law, technology, evidence-based education, policing models, and public expectations. To this end, it invites proposals to perform a Job Task Analysis which will provide Colorado POST information critical to understanding the curriculum used to prepare entry-level officers to succeed in performing the job as it exists today.

DEADLINE: Proposals may be submitted no later than 3 p.m. MT Sept. 24, 2021. This RFP is published using the Colorado Vendor Self-Service system, located at www.colorado.gov/VSS. Offerors can self-register at the VSS website, free of charge. Offerors are encouraged to register early in case of technical difficulties that might affect a timely proposal submission.

RFI: PFAS contamination

The Colorado Department of Law announces this Request for Information for law firms to provide the State of Colorado with their qualifications to provide legal counsel services for the investigation and potential litigation against parties engaged in the manufacture, processing, testing, distribution, use, or disposal of Per- and Polyflouroalkyl substances (PFAS) causing contamination in the State’s groundwater, surface water, and other natural resources. The DOL is seeking a law firm to represent Colorado, ex rel. Philip J. Weiser, Attorney General (and serve as Special Assistant Attorneys General) with respect to the services.

DEADLINE: Proposals may be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. MT on September 1, 2021.  Proposals should be submitted in pdf format to the DOL’s Procurement Team via email at procurement@coag.gov, and any questions also should be sent to that email address.

RFI: Independent Investigation Proposal

Seeking the services of a legal services firm to represent the Governor and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), and serve as Special Assistant Attorneys General to conduct an independent investigation of allegations regarding alleged improper non-enforcement of National Ambient Air Quality Standards  as alleged by certain CDPHE Air Pollution Control Division staff.

DEADLINE: Proposals may be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. MT on May 10, 2021.  Proposals should be submitted in pdf format to the DOL’s Procurement Team via email at procurement@coag.gov.

RFP: Ethical Decision Making Under Stress

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is to solicit proposals from responsible offerors to provide immersive procedural justice and de-escalation trainings to peace officers, as directed by the Colorado Peace Officer Standard and Training Board (POST). Each training will be conducted over a two-day period and within one of POST’s training regions. The trainings will aim to enhance peace officers’ self-awareness, analytical skills, situational awareness, and interactive skills to promote procedural justice and ethical decision-making under stress for peace officers in their interactions with the public.

Colorado POST is a unit of the DOL’s Criminal Justice Division. POST is commissioned to monitor and regulate the training and certification compliance of peace officers, currently 14,000, that are partitioned into 10 training regions throughout the state.

Please note: In order to view the full RFP and to submit a proposal, persons/entities must register as a Colorado vendor. Proposals must be submitted via the State’s vendor self-service portal. Proposals submitted outside the self-service portal will not be accepted.

DEADLINE: 3:00 p.m. MT May 20, 2021