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Active opportunities open for bidding
City of Hartford
The City of Hartford is soliciting proposals from qualified firms or individuals to provide 'On-Call' as-needed professional grant writing services for various City of Hartford departments. The selected Grant Writer(s) will research grant opportunities, prepare grant applications and supporting documents, and assist with ongoing grant compliance, with a primary focus on securing federal and state funding. This is a procurement for professional services (not a grant program), and proposals must be submitted electronically through the City's PlanetBids portal by 2:00 PM EDT on July 21, 2026.
Posted Date
Jun 29, 2026
Due Date
Jul 21, 2026
Release: Jun 29, 2026
City of Hartford
Close: Jul 21, 2026
The City of Hartford is soliciting proposals from qualified firms or individuals to provide 'On-Call' as-needed professional grant writing services for various City of Hartford departments. The selected Grant Writer(s) will research grant opportunities, prepare grant applications and supporting documents, and assist with ongoing grant compliance, with a primary focus on securing federal and state funding. This is a procurement for professional services (not a grant program), and proposals must be submitted electronically through the City's PlanetBids portal by 2:00 PM EDT on July 21, 2026.
AvailableCity of Hartford
The City of Hartford is seeking qualified consulting firms to provide on-call professional services to the Office of Management, Budget, Grants & Revenue (OMBG). Selected consultants will be placed on a qualified list for tasks including process analysis, policy drafting, KPI development, and white-paper preparation. The initial contract term is one year with the possibility of up to three one-year extensions, with bids requiring a detailed hourly-rate schedule, a 10% bid bond, and insurance.
Posted Date
Jun 30, 2026
Due Date
Jul 16, 2026
Release: Jun 30, 2026
City of Hartford
Close: Jul 16, 2026
The City of Hartford is seeking qualified consulting firms to provide on-call professional services to the Office of Management, Budget, Grants & Revenue (OMBG). Selected consultants will be placed on a qualified list for tasks including process analysis, policy drafting, KPI development, and white-paper preparation. The initial contract term is one year with the possibility of up to three one-year extensions, with bids requiring a detailed hourly-rate schedule, a 10% bid bond, and insurance.
AvailableCity of Hartford
The City of Hartford is seeking qualified consulting firms to provide on-call professional services to the Office of Management, Budget, Grants & Revenue (OMBG). Selected consultants will be placed on a qualified list for tasks including process analysis, policy drafting, KPI development, and white-paper preparation. The initial contract term is one year with the possibility of up to three one-year extensions, with bids requiring a detailed hourly-rate schedule, a 10% bid bond, and insurance.
Posted Date
Jun 30, 2026
Due Date
Jul 16, 2026
Release: Jun 30, 2026
City of Hartford
Close: Jul 16, 2026
The City of Hartford is seeking qualified consulting firms to provide on-call professional services to the Office of Management, Budget, Grants & Revenue (OMBG). Selected consultants will be placed on a qualified list for tasks including process analysis, policy drafting, KPI development, and white-paper preparation. The initial contract term is one year with the possibility of up to three one-year extensions, with bids requiring a detailed hourly-rate schedule, a 10% bid bond, and insurance.
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Procurement guidance and navigation tips.
Lower scores indicate easier procurement processes. Created by Starbridge.
Sole Source: Deprioritize; redirect to reseller or cooperative paths.
Coops: Other goods/services: Use a cooperative purchasing contract (e.g., Sourcewell) for a pre-competed buy.
City of Hartford: Sole source is rare and high-friction (85/100). No clear, repeatable process or public record of awards. Recommendation: deprioritize and pivot to reseller or cooperative purchasing to avoid low probability of success.
Board meetings and strategic plans from City of Hartford
The City of Hartford's strategic plan aims to guide recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on protecting vulnerable residents, promoting economic growth, improving quality of life, and ensuring long-term fiscal stability. Key pillars include responsible budgeting and core government services, fostering partnerships for economic opportunity, maintaining the State of Connecticut partnership, and enhancing neighborhood safety and strength through youth engagement. Specific goals address COVID-19 recovery and healing, fiscal stability without tax increases, economic development and job creation, public safety and neighborhood strength, and expanding education and opportunities for young people.
The City of Hartford's Fiscal Year 2024 Strategic Plan serves as a roadmap to promote economic growth and recovery, enhance quality of life, ensure core service delivery, and safeguard long-term fiscal stability. The plan is structured around five core goals: promoting economic development and job growth, maintaining fiscal stability, ensuring safe streets and strong neighborhoods, expanding education and opportunities for young people, and continuing the city's recovery. Key strategies include responsible budgeting, fostering partnerships, maintaining the State of Connecticut partnership, and leveraging American Rescue Plan funding for critical investments.
The strategic plan for the City of Hartford outlines a roadmap for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to protect vulnerable residents, foster economic growth, enhance quality of life, and ensure long-term fiscal stability. It is built upon key strategic pillars: responsible budgeting with a focus on core government services, cultivating partnerships for economic and resident opportunities, upholding the State of Connecticut partnership and Municipal Accountability Review Board plan, and strengthening neighborhoods through public safety and youth engagement. The plan's core goals include facilitating pandemic recovery and healing, maintaining fiscal stability, promoting economic development and job growth, ensuring safe streets and strong neighborhoods, and expanding educational and youth opportunities.
The City of Hartford's strategic plan outlines a commitment to fiscally prudent decisions while fostering economic growth, expanding youth engagement, and addressing housing needs and violence prevention. Key strategic pillars include promoting economic growth for all neighborhoods, investing in the future of young people, strengthening the quality of life, and maintaining fiscal stability. The plan emphasizes responsible budgeting, building partnerships, strengthening financial standing with the State of Connecticut and the Municipal Accountability Review Board, and improving residents' lives through safer neighborhoods and youth engagement. The plan also includes a five-year financial forecast from FY2026 through FY2030.
The City of Hartford's strategic plan for Fiscal Year 2021 aims to promote growth, vibrancy, and quality of life while ensuring long-term fiscal stability. Key focus areas include maintaining fiscal stability through disciplined management and savings, pursuing economic development and job growth, enhancing public safety and neighborhood strength, expanding education and opportunities for young people, and leading the continued pandemic response and economic recovery efforts.
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