Accreditation Management Solution at TSTC Follow Solicitation

Texas State Technical College (TSTC) is seeking proposals from qualified suppliers for a comprehensive, centralized software platform to support institutional effectiveness, assessment management, strategic and operational goal planning, accreditation management, faculty qualifications tracking, data analytics, and institutional reporting.

The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to select a supplier capable of providing an integrated solution that streamlines core institutional processes into a single system, eliminates redundant legacy tools, improves cross-functional collaboration, and ensures compliance with institutional and regional accreditation standards.

The successful supplier shall provide an enterprise-wide, cloud-hosted software solution that centralizes institutional effectiveness operations across TSTC. The solution must provide robust functionality for planning, student learning assessment, regional and program accreditation, faculty credentialing, evidence repositories, automated workflows, reporting, and system integrations.

The platform must enable authorized users to create, manage, track, and report on institutional, departmental, and program plans; map and document learning outcome assessments; author and maintain accreditation narratives with hyperlinked evidence; maintain verifiable faculty credential profiles; and generate real-time dashboards for administrative decision-making.

At a minimum, the proposed solution should support the following functional areas:

1. Assessment Management
2. Strategic and Goal Planning
3. Accreditation Management
4. Faculty Qualifications
5. Data, Analytics, and Reporting
6. System Administration, Integrations, and Cross-Functional Capabilities

The attached feature requirements spreadsheet "Attachment A – Functional Requirements Matrix" provides the detailed functional, technical, reporting, integration, and administrative capabilities requested for the proposed solution and shall be considered part of this Statement of Work. Suppliers must review the spreadsheet in its entirety and respond to each listed requirement by indicating their current capability status, providing explanatory comments, and uploading the completed spreadsheet with their proposal submission.

**Portal submissions only:** Proposals must be submitted through the portal; email submissions cannot be accepted.

Please post all inquiries to the event's Q&A Board within the portal so we can provide formal responses.

The evaluation of the proposals shall be based on the requirements described in this RFP. All properly submitted proposals will be reviewed, evaluated, and ranked by TSTC in accordance with the evaluation criteria set forth below:

| Criteria to Be Evaluated | Points |
| --- | --- |
| Approach and Proposed Solution | 35 |
| Functional, Reporting, and Data Capabilities | 30 |
| Proposal Pricing & Value | 20 |
| Implementation, Timeline, and Training | 10 |
| Supplier Qualifications and Experience | 5 |
| TOTAL | 100 |