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Court approves panel of marketing and bond underwriting firms for county on-call needs
Summary
Commissioners approved awards for as-needed communications/marketing services and a pool of bond underwriters following competitive RFPs, creating pre-vetted vendors departments can call without separate solicitations.
El Paso County commissioners approved two purchasing recommendations May 12 establishing on-call vendor pools for communications and for bond-underwriting services.
Purchasing reported responses to RFPs for as-needed communications and for bond underwriting. The court approved seven marketing firms to a multi-year as-needed communications contract and a larger group of underwriters — 10 firms — for the bond-underwriting pool. Purchasing explained the communications pool allows departments to engage pre-vetted consultants for outreach campaigns, with a $50,000 threshold for required court review of a specific campaign; purchasing staff and the communications office said larger, multi-department or bond-related campaigns will come to the court for approval.
On the bond-underwriting RFP, purchasing said 23 firms advanced through evaluation and the court approved awards to 10 firms to create a roster that finance staff can use when structuring or marketing financings.
Action: Court approved both RFP award lists on motions and recorded votes.
What’s next: Departments will use the pools for as-needed marketing or underwriting services; the communications office said it will advise departments on which vendor best fits a campaign and that any project above the court-established threshold would return for commissioner approval.
