The Workforce Development Board (WDB) of San Benito County is requesting quotations for Rapid Response Layoff Aversion Services. The Rapid Response Layoff Aversion program is a key component of the WDB service strategy to retain local jobs by offering a full range of coordinated resources and business counseling to local businesses that may be at risk.
The primary purpose of Rapid Response is to enable affected workers to return to work as quickly as possible following a layoff, or to prevent layoffs altogether. To accomplish this, the workforce development system must be coordinated, comprehensive and proactive in communicating with local business. This includes providing labor market and workforce information, integrating industry requirements into training strategies and career pathways, brokering relationships and job connections, making services efficient and easy to access, and coordinating with regional partners to reduce duplication.
The purpose of this proposal quotation is to expand upon and support the efforts of the WDB and their Career Center and Economic Development partners to assist employers that either are closing altogether or are planning to lay off workers. The awarded contractor will conduct outreach, assess local businesses, and act on community and self-referrals to identify at-risk San Benito County businesses through inquiries from business, project outreach, and referrals that will benefit from Rapid Response/Layoff Aversion Services. In order to preserve jobs that might otherwise be lost, awardees will provide early intervention to a struggling business, one-on-one counseling and technical assistance including operational analysis, increased profit earning strategies, general “business turn-a-round” assistance and other services deemed necessary. These services will be provided at no cost to the client/local businesses. All information regarding issues facing the business shall be kept confidential. In addition, awardees will also track activities, client satisfaction and outcomes and provide regular reporting as required by contract.
A qualified contractor will need to submit a narrative plan outlining their proposed services, outcome activities and total businesses served; along with the cost to deliver said services.
The narrative quotation is due no later than Friday, March 4, 2016 by 3 p.m. to Enrique Arreola, Deputy Director at earreola@cosb.us or at 1111 San Felipe Road, Suite #108, Hollister, CA 95023. Late submissions will not be accepted. For more information on our services visit our website at: http://www.sbcjobs.org