SNOC26271024 - RFP - Adult Learner Strategy & Organizational Design Consulting Services

Snow College seeks a consultant with demonstrated expertise in adult and returning learners, community colleges or regional public institutions, rural or geographically dispersed populations, and institutional design. The consultant will help the College decide whom it can serve well, what must change, how responsibility should be distributed, and what permanent staffing model will make the work sustainable.

The College is intentionally conducting this work before filling a permanent adult learner leadership position. Snow has developed preliminary ideas about such a position, but the consultant must test those ideas rather than assume they are correct.

Snow College invites qualified consultants or consulting teams to propose a focused engagement that will define the College's adult learner opportunity, assess its readiness to serve adult students, recommend the highest-priority institutional changes, and design the organizational structure and permanent position or team needed to sustain the work.

Decisions the Engagement Must Support

At the end of the engagement, Snow College must be prepared to make and implement the following decisions. The consultant's work must answer the questions identified within each area.

• Priority Adult Populations and Markets: Identify the adult populations and geographic markets Snow can serve most effectively.
• Adult Learner Readiness and Student Experience: Determine what Snow must change to help adult learners choose, enroll at, persist at, and complete at the College.
• Programs Credentials and Student Services: Determine which existing offerings can serve adults successfully, which require modification, and which new opportunities merit further development.
• Organizational Responsibility and Accountability: Determine how adult learner work should be organized across the College and how responsibility should be distributed.
• Permanent Leadership and Staffing Model: Define the permanent leadership and staffing structure needed to sustain Snow's adult learner work.
• Priorities and Implementation: Establish a realistic and sequenced 24-month implementation roadmap.

Scope of Work

Proposers should recommend a methodology that produces the required outcomes. The following work components define the expected substance but do not prescribe every task or technique.

• Project Initiation and Data Plan
• Adult Learner Market and Opportunity Analysis - Critical Work
• Adult Learner Readiness and Student Journey Audit
• Adult Voice and Partner Input
• Program and Credential Opportunity Analysis

The work must include direct input from adults and relevant partners.

Submission method

One (1) digital file copy for each (RFP Response and a separate file for the Cost Proposal) that will be submitted in the bidding portal (U3P - Utah Public, Procurement Place) must be received by **5:00 p.m. MT/MDT on Friday, Nov. 6th, 2026**. Proposals received after this deadline will be late and ineligible for consideration.

The cost proposal must be submitted as a separate file from any other responses to this RFP, to be accepted. If any costs are given in any part of the response(s) in the RFP, except in the separately submitted document for costs, the RFP will be eliminated from further consideration.

Proposals containing less than ninety (90) calendar day's acceptance time will not be considered.

Contract max budget constraint is **$75,000**.

An oral presentation, by a vendor, to supplement a proposal may be required. Presentation Date(s): Nov. 17, 2026.

Insurance and bonds

Supplier will maintain Comprehensive General, Contractual, and Automobile Liability Insurance, with a minimum limit of **$2,000,000** per occurrence for bodily injury (including death) and property damage liability.

The College requires a payment if subcontractors are used and performance bond for the amount of the bid, if vendor requires any type or form of prepayment terms, (if it is over $5,000), or the amount of the project is over $50,000.

Contract may be terminated with 90 (ninety) day written notice.