Specifications include, but are not limited to: Through this Request for Proposals (“RFP”), the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation (“RIHousing”) seeks proposals from qualified firms to provide focus group facilitation, and, as needed, recruitment, scheduling, location identification, and report out writing. RIHousing seeks to create a roster of firms who can provide focus group facilitation to collect ideas and opinions from RIHousing program participants and/or the public to help inform agency programs and policies. Focus groups will have a varying number of participants. As needed, RIHousing is seeking services from firms to additionally provide participant recruitment, scheduling and report out writing. In instances where facilitation-only is needed, RIHousing will do the recruitment of focus group members, provide the virtual or in-person physical locations, and work with the firm to summarize the focus group results and make sure all ideas and opinions generated by the group are reflected. In instances where full service is needed, firms will be expected to conduct recruitment of focus group members based on RIHousing’s criteria, schedule the focus groups, identify the location, and provide a full report out on the focus group’s findings. RIHousing will meet with and provide firms with background material, context, and other information as needed to ensure the firm has a strong understanding of topics to be covered in the focus groups, and the information we wish to gather.
