New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA)

New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA)

Close: Jun 22, 2026

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), a cloud-based enterprise, and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform with integrated quality management/recording (QM) and workforce management (WFM) capabilities, plus ongoing managed services to include 24/7 system monitoring, incident detection, providing end-user support and troubleshooting services, and monthly KPI reporting. The solution must be a Cisco-based or comparable platform. The solution must also be scalable, secure, resilient, accessible by adhering to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 AA, and interoperable with HESAA's existing security stack, including Cisco Firepower and Umbrella and identity provider, Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD SSO with multi-factor authentication (MFA). The platform shall support open standards, including but not limited to: Secure Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) that uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt and secure SIP; Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP); Application Programming Interface conforming to Representational State Transfer (REST APIs); webhooks; and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and OpenID Connect (OIDC) for single sign-on; and deliver high availability with documented disaster recovery.

New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA)

Close: Mar 9, 2026

Qualified accounting firms to act as the independent auditor for the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority ("HESAA" or "Authority") which is a public body corporate and politic which is "in but not of" the Department of State of the State of New Jersey and an instrumentality of the State. Under the provisions of Governor McGreevey's Executive Order 122 and HESAA's bond indentures, the Authority requires annual financial audits of its funds and accounts that are not recorded on the State's accounting system, including separate financial and compliance audits for its Student Loan Revenue Bond issues used to fund loans originated pursuant to the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) loan program, other HESAA programs and funds, and the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund. In addition, the independent auditor will be required to provide the Agreed Upon Procedure (AUP) review for HESAA's annual bond transactions.

New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA)

Close: Oct 2, 2025

Serving as financial advisor to the authority for bonds issued through negotiated sales. The Financial Advisor will serve as the Authority’s Independent Registered Municipal Advisor under SEC and MSRB regulations and as such respondent firm must be qualified to serve in this capacity. The respondent firm must have their own municipal underwriting desk that has successfully underwritten municipal transactions for at least the last 2 years.