Headwaters Tech Hub Contractor Proposals
The Headwaters Regional Technology and Innovation Hub (“Headwaters Hub”) invites proposals to provide technical assistance to the Hub consortium with its submission to the EDA’s Phase 2 Implementation Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). You can access our successful Phase 1 Designation submission here.
The Headwaters Hub intends to form a small expert project team working under the guidance of the Hub’s interim steering committee, and in collaboration with consortium members, to develop a compelling submission for Phase 2 implementation funding. The deadline for our Phase 2 submission is 4:59pm EST Feb 29, 2024.
Accordingly, the Headwaters Hub is seeking consultants/contractors with relevant expertise and capacity to provide assistance in areas including, but not limited to, one or more of the following:
Outreach and engagement with a particular focus on tribal and rural communities, leaders, and entities (including tribal and local government, businesses, and nonprofit entities). The objectives of such outreach and engagement include:
- Creating awareness of the Headwaters Hub and its potential activities and impacts.
- Seeking input on Hub component project design.
- Seeking input from businesses interested in participating in the Hub.
- Identifying specific ways in which communities, leaders or organizations would actively participate in the Hubs implementation projects.
- Seeking input on potential community concerns, needs, and opportunities related to the Hub, including, but not limited to access to training, housing, broadband, transportation, and childcare.
Technical Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Research commercialization
- Innovation management
- Early stage venture programming and support
- Capital access
- Scaling of high tech enterprises including global sales & marketing capabilities, and operation
- Workforce development
- Technology sector ecosystem development
- Infrastructure development - including but not limited to housing, broadband, transportation, and childcare
- State and local policy development
- Cyber Security
- Intellectual property management and protection
Project Management/Administration and Grant Administration/Writing
- Senior program management (i.e. the ability to oversee and coordinate multiple fast paced project design efforts and federal grant applications)
- Project administration: capacity to assist with meeting/event coordination, general communications, document and task tracking
- Experience with Federal Grant writing and/or administration
This will be an agile project requiring the identification, scoping, and detailed planning of 3-8 interrelated but separately submitted component projects coordinated via an overarching submission. Accordingly, we are seeking statements of capability and capacity from individuals or organizations interested in contracting with the Hub to provide technical assistance as part of the Phase 2 proposal development project team through to Feb 29. The precise scope of work will be agreed upon prior to commencement of work and include efficient mechanisms for change orders as appropriate.