Sponsor: Office of Violence Prevention
Procurement Type: Request for Proposals  and or Qualifications

Starting Date: 09-27-2024
Closing Date: 11-17-2024
Closing Time: 11:59 PM

Summary
The City of St. Louis Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Office of Violence Prevention  (OVP) are seeking proposals from qualified nonprofit organizations to provide job training to high-risk youth between the ages of 15-24 years old.

INQUIRIES

Please direct all communications regarding the RFP Process to: Cynthia Davis, Office of Violence  Prevention, violence-prevention@stlouis-mo.gov, 314-299-2196.

No contact with other City employees is permitted. Unauthorized contact regarding this RFP may result in disqualification or rejection of a proposal.

Any correspondence shall be clearly marked with “RFP—YOUTH JOBS”.

Questions may be submitted no later than 11:59 pm on October 17, 2024. The Office of Violence Prevention will maintain a list of all firms or individuals requesting copies of the RFP and will ensure that copies of all questions and responses shall be made available in writing to each firm on such a list, when requested.

All questions will be addressed in writing through addenda posted on the City of St. Louis website under “RFP for Youth Jobs” at the following address: https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/procurement.cfm

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

For proposals to be considered, respondent’s submission must be received by November 17, 2024 at 11:59 P.M. CST. Proposals received after this deadline will not be accepted.

Please submit your proposal via email to the Office of Violence Prevention at violence-prevention@stlouis-mo.gov in standard, 8 x11 inch letter size in both Microsoft Word and PDF formats. Incomplete proposals will not be accepted.

Applicants must adhere to the following:
- Must be in the English language.
- Double spaced with one-inch margins.
- Use 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font.
- Number each page at the bottom, except for the cover page.

The RFP attachment must be named to clearly indicate that it is in response to the RFP FOR YOUTH JOBS.