Consultant Services to Develop an Action Plan for Health Promotion, Access and Service Collaboration Among The Health Trust, Santa Clara County Public Health Department, and First 5 Santa Clara County.

Planning and Evaluation Department

The Health Trust is the fiscal agent for a collaborative project for which consulting services are being solicited.  Joining The Health Trust in this collaborative project are the Santa Clara County Public Health Department and First 5 Santa Clara County.

Project Description
FIRST 5 Santa Clara County, The Health Trust, and the Santa Clara County Public Health Department each has as a part of their respective missions to promote health, facilitate access to health promotion and preventive health care, and provide health services. The proposed goals of this project are (1) to examine existing strategies within each organization and identify opportunities for co-promotion, service coordination, and leveraging of resources; (2) as appropriate, identify opportunities to develop new collaborative strategies; and (3) complete an action plan to carry out the proposed collaboration.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
The collaborative partners will evaluate each submitted proposal and determine whether interviews will be necessary with one or more consultants/firms.
All proposals submitted will be evaluated using the following criteria:

• Demonstrated understanding of the project.
• Evidence of capacity to successfully provide the services, including demonstrated past success with similar projects.
• Ability to meet the project timeline.
• Clearly articulated process for accomplishing the project.
• Qualifications of assigned project team or individual.
• References including other applicable clients that have received your services.

For a full description of the scope of services, outline of the proposal, and proposal requirements, download the Request For Qualifications (RFQ).

All responses to this RFQ must be received by email by 5:00 p.m. on December 22, 2008. Please email proposals to Aimee Reedy, Vice President of Assessment, Planning and Evaluation at The Health Trust at aimeer@healthtrust.org.

The Evaluation Department of The Health Trust is seeking a contractor to provide data collection tool development, advanced data analysis, and reporting for organizational and program evaluation projects.  The selected contractor will provide services as needed and requested from the Vice President of Assessment, Planning and Evaluation.  Interested parties should send a description of qualifications and resume of principals to AimeeR@healthtrust.org or send to the address below:

Aimee Reedy, Vice-President Assessment, Planning & Evaluation
The Health Trust
2105 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite 220
Campbell, CA  95008

Required Skills:

• Advanced statistical analysis using SPSS
• Return on Investment / Social Return on Investment methodology
• Tool development, including validity and reliability testing
• Reporting results