NOTICES
HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Request for Qualifications to Provide Strategic Planning Consulting Services
[35 Pa.B. 3737] The Housing Finance Agency (Agency) seeks responses from qualified strategic planning consultants to this request for assistance in developing training, human resources and operational systems solutions that address current and future business challenges.
Agency staff and leadership have held internal discussions that have identified the following areas of focus:
1. Encouraging an innovative and problem-solving attitude in staff members.
2. Broadening and deepening divisions' and units' abilities to work together to recognize new business opportunities, and systematically design and implement new programs.
3. Capitalizing on improved external relations with business partners and improving our collaborations with government entities.
4. Identifying ways to maximize Information Technology investments.
5. Developing a succession plan.
The Agency is aware that discussion with skilled strategic planning consultants may highlight the need for additional or alternative areas of focus. The Agency expects that any successful applicant for strategic planning consultation will assist the Agency in identifying additional or alternative areas of focus.
Agency Background
The Agency is a public corporation and agency of State government employing approximately 250 people in Harrisburg, Norristown and Pittsburgh. The Agency was created by the General Assembly in 1972 to provide affordable housing for older adults, families of modest means and persons with special needs.
The Agency provides capital to finance rental housing development and single family home buyer mortgages, and administers several State and Federal housing and community development initiatives, including the housing tax credit program and the Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP). To date, the Agency has financed more than 105,550 home purchases through more than $6 billion in mortgages to home buyers; 60,000 apartment units through $1.7 billion in loans and $220 million in tax credits to developers; and has saved 33,400 homeowners from foreclosure with $345 million in HEMAP loans.
The Agency does not receive State appropriations for operations, other than for HEMAP. Instead, the Agency sells taxable and tax-exempt securities to raise capital for programs and operations. The Agency's securities are rated AA+ by Standard & Poors and Aa2 by Moody's. Additional information about the Agency and its programs can be found on the Agency's www.phfa.org.
Responses should be sent by 2 p.m. on July 30, 2005, to the Housing Finance Agency, Attn: Robert F. Bobincheck, 211 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101.
Responses must include a description of the consultant's philosophy of strategic planning, their approach to organizational assessment and their deliverables; a list of organizations for which the consultant has already provided services; and biographies and credentials for all staff who will be involved with services provided to the Agency.
The Agency is aware that consultants may provide services in more than one, or only one, of the identified areas of need, and that consultants may have additional areas of service that they would like to offer. For this reason, the Agency requests a separate bid for each area of focus that the consultant proposes to address.
The Agency may select a contractor or contractors to provide services in the manner as it deems, in its discretion, most efficient, appropriate and cost effective to achieve its goals of strategic planning. The Agency will negotiate the final terms of an agreement for services directly with selected contractor and reserves the right to discontinue, amend or extend this process, to request supplemental and additional information from any entity and to negotiate directly for the performance of relevant services relating to the provision of services as it deems appropriate and advantageous to fulfilling its goals.
Important Information for Interested Bidders
Questions regarding to this invitation should be directed in writing only to Robert Bobincheck at the previously listed address. Responses to questions received and any supplemental information relating to this invitation will be posted on the Agency's website. Interested applicants are urged to check the website for information.
Three copies of the Statement of Qualifications should be submitted to Robert Bobincheck and must be signed by an official authorized to bind the contractor to its provisions.
The Agency may in its sole discretion undertake negotiations with contractors whose proposals as to price and other factors show them to be qualified, responsible and capable of performing the work. The Agency reserves the right to reject proposals received as a result of this request, or to negotiate separately with competing contractors. Information and material submitted through this invitation becomes the property of the Agency and may be subject to disclosure.
BRIAN A. HUDSON,
Executive Director
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 05-1276. Filed for public inspection July 1, 2005, 9:00 a.m.]
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