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Contract AwardProfessional ServicesDetected May 28, 2026

The Consent Agenda Appendix lists three planning grants: Lybrook MDWCA PG‑7150 ($60,000), Village of Ruidoso PG‑7151 ($100,000), and Quemado Lake Water Association PG‑7152 ($60,000), each described as "Water Asset Management Plan." These grants fund consulting services to develop asset inventories, condition assessments, and long-range capital and financial planning for their water systems. With these planning grants approved, each utility will need to select consultants to prepare asset management plans, including GIS-based asset registers, risk assessments, lifecycle costing, and prioritized capital improvement programs. Firms specializing in water asset management, GIS, and capital planning can pursue these as discrete consulting opportunities and position for later design and construction projects that stem from the resulting capital plans.

These are planning efforts that typically precede future capital improvement projects and funding ap...

New Mexico Mortgage Finance AuthorityWater asset management plan grants for multiple small systems

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Professional Services

Where this sits in the buying cycle

Now

Capital plan & early discussion

Next 1–2 Q

Scoping & vendor outreach window

6–18 mo

RFP / solicitation posted

Later

Award & contract

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The Town of Montrose has convened a Comprehensive Plan Committee that will meet on July 2, 2026 to review the current comprehensive plan and discuss possible revisions and additions. The agenda includes reviewing prior community engagement, setting a schedule and completion date, and forming small subcommittees to work on individual parts of the plan. This indicates the town is in the early planning phase of a full or substantial update to its comprehensive plan, with research already underway by committee members. While no external vendor is mentioned yet, communities often engage planning, engineering, GIS, public engagement, or economic development consultants to support plan drafting, data analysis, mapping, and facilitation. Vendors can position services around helping the subcommittees structure the update, provide technical studies, and prepare an adoptable plan as the schedule and scope are firmed up.

A quorum of the Town Board may attend, underscoring policy significance of the plan update even thou...

Town of Montrose
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Pre-RFP

Bettendorf Community School District has adopted a Special Education Instructional Service Delivery Plan for July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2031, outlining how services will be organized, monitored, and evaluated for students with IEPs ages 3–21. The plan details a continuum of services (consultation, co-teaching, push-in, pull-out, intensive/self-contained, alternative placements), a point-based caseload management system, and continuous improvement processes tied to ESSA and IDEA targets. While the document is primarily procedural, it implies ongoing needs for data systems, workload/caseload tracking tools, IEP management, professional development, and potential external support to analyze ESSA/IDEA data and refine service models. Vendors offering special education software platforms, analytics, scheduling/caseload tools, virtual/alternative service solutions, or training/consulting can position themselves to help the district operationalize and optimize this plan over the 2026–2031 period.

The plan was submitted to the AEA on May 4, 2026, approved May 8, 2026, posted for public comment Ma...

Bettendorf Community School District
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Contract Award

Yellow Medicine East School District is entering into a 2026-2027 contract with the Minnesota Valley Cooperative Center (MVCC) for comprehensive special education services. The agreement covers a licensed Director of Special Education/Finance Officer/Due Process Specialist, licensed special education instructors and therapists, and non-certified paraprofessional staff based on identified student needs. The contract is budgeted at an estimated cost of 1662985 for services delivered from August 2026 through June 2027, with quarterly billing and final cost adjustments after the FY 2026-2027 audit. This is a decided purchase, establishing MVCC as the incumbent provider for district-level special education program management and staffing. Vendors can use this as a timing signal for potential follow-on work (training, software, evaluations) or to plan competitive positioning ahead of future cycles, noting the March 15 termination notice requirement for changing providers.

Yellow Medicine East will be billed through invoices not to exceed the estimated contract amount; MV...

Yellow Medicine East
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