Quality Improvement System (QIS) Refresh Project Support

The Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) is seeking a vendor to provide core project support, stakeholder engagement, and recommendations for a phased five-year quality plan for the Quality Improvement System (QIS) Refresh Project. The selected vendor will work with CDEC to redesign the Colorado Shines Quality Rating and Improvement System, which aims to maintain health and safety standards in child care programs, help early childhood professionals improve the quality of services, and show families that a child care program is committed to quality. The vendor will provide project management, analysis, and facilitation services, including managing multiple workstreams, ensuring quality control, and translating qualitative feedback into actionable policy or design recommendations. • The vendor will provide a brief overview of their organization's services and experience with project management, facilitation, and state and national early childhood systems. • The vendor will provide one example of their facilitation work for the early childhood field and how they used strategies to honor all voices to complete this work. • The vendor will provide two professional references from organizations they have provided project management, analysis, and/or facilitation services to in the last five years. • The vendor will provide resumes and/or job descriptions demonstrating staff expertise and qualifications that are relevant to the proposed services. • The vendor will provide an example of a project where they managed multiple workstreams (analysis, facilitation, and design) simultaneously and how they ensured quality control across all workstreams.