Request for Proposals (“RFP”) for Building Michigan Communities Conference Planning Services

Request for Proposals (“RFP”) for Building Michigan Communities Conference Planning Services  

 

The Authority seeks a conference planner (“Bidder” or “selected contractor”) to assist the Authority with the planning and hosting of the Building Michigan Communities Conference (“BMCC”). 

 

	Date	Time
Deadline to submit questions about this RFP:	August 9, 2019	4 PM Eastern (Detroit, MI)
Anticipated date Authority will post answers to questions:	August 16, 2019
Proposal deadline:	August 30, 2019	4 PM Eastern (Detroit, MI)
Anticipated contract begin date:	November 1, 2019

 

By way of background, the Authority’s core mission is to provide financial and technical assistance through private and public partnerships to create and preserve safe and decent affordable housing. To accomplish this mission, the Authority has established numerous programs that include funding for multi-family housing, mortgages for single-family housing, efforts to end homelessness, homeownership counseling, neighborhood enhancements, and other housing programs.  The Authority works with a number of partners to further the mission.  One of the partnership efforts that supports these programs and this mission is the annual Building Michigan Communities Conference.

 

The BMCC draws over 1,300 attendees representing developers (nonprofit and for-profit), investors, lenders, builders, homeless service providers, housing counseling agencies, and housing agencies (state, county, and local).  The conference offers informative educational sessions covering real estate development, preventing and ending homelessness, social and supportive services, community economic development, organizational best practices, and other related topics.  It also offers networking opportunities that can strengthen existing relationships and create new partnerships that can endure beyond the conference.

 

The RFP is available at the following link:

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mshda/RFP_2019_Event_Planner_-_Final_661111_7.pdf

 

You can also access it on the RFPs and Grants section (lower right) of the MSHDA website at https://www.michigan.gov/mshda,