Business Opportunities

Project Title: Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, Legislative Services

Description of Work: The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) is requesting proposals from qualified firms to provide legislative services. The purpose of contracting legislative services is to provide the resources for NVTA’s Executive Director, Government and Personnel Committee, and the NVTA Chair to more effectively communicate and coordinate issues the members of the General Assembly. This service will also provide a recognizable single point of contact for State legislators which will expedite issue resolution. The Request for Proposal (RFP) tasks is described fully in Section C, Scope of Work.

Registration of Interest: Offerors are required to register their interest in submitting a proposal to ensure receipt of updates to this RFP, notice of changes in critical dates and NVTA responses to questions and any other addenda. Interest may be registered by submitting an email to Dev.Sen@thenovaauthority.org. The email must contain the company name, address, telephone number and email address of one person to serve as the point of contact for registration purposes. If more than one contact is submitted the first person listed will be used as the point of contact.

Proposal Presentations: Presentations with top-ranked firms, if requested, are tentatively scheduled to be held on August 25, 2020 at NVTA.

Type of Contract: Cost Reimbursement, subject to maximum. The final cost of the contract will be determined after a review of cost proposals and contract negotiations.

Notice of Award: Notice of contract award(s) made as a result of this solicitation is expected to be on or about October 8, 2020 contract award will be for one initial year covering the preparation and representation for the 2021 General Assembly session with five annual options to renew.

Period of Performance: The performance period of this contract is one year with five options to renew. Additional extensions maybe offered depending on the legislative issues facing that Authority at the time.