RFP Student Aid Processing Portal

HESC is seeking Proposals from responsible bidders to develop a web-based portal that will provide HESC staff with a consolidated view of financial aid applications, to make application processing more efficient. This includes reviewing, updating, and verifying information using supporting documentation and data from multiple data sources; where possible the portal will streamline and automate processes to help make eligibility determination and reporting easier. The proposed application environment should be either a cloud-native .NET environment or a low-code development platform (LCDP). 

The bidder must have completed at least two (2) successful implementations of comparable size and scope within the last five (5) years, one (1) of which must be a public-sector implementation. The system implementations of comparable size/scope must have met the following: managed various file transmissions daily and implemented an application lifecycle inclusive of user roles and permissions for workflow management and had the ability to ingest a data set of approximately 100-150 fields per program, not submitted simultaneously.

The period of performance is one-year with up to two optional one-year extensions. The not-to-exceed amount is $2M per year.