Specifications include, but are not limited to: •Conduct an evaluation of current misdemeanor indigent defense systems to assess the extent to which current operations best meet the goals of providing effective indigent defense services during the pretrial period. The evaluation must, at a minimum, analyze the following:Case allocation between privately appointed and public defense attorneys;Workload size, time to case resolution, and continuity of representation;Bail hearing characteristics, including number of individualized bail hearings, number of informal requests for bail modification, quality of advocacy provided at bail hearing, and bail hearing outcomes;Case outcomes including determination of guilt, sentence length, type of disposition, and financial costs imposed on clients;-Availability and utilization of support staff, social service referrals and alternatives to incarceration at bail presentation and subsequent hearings. Note, support staff are defined in Part VII of the Consent Decree available in the appendix of this solicitation. •Produce a draft report within 120 days of evaluation start date, and incorporate stakeholder feedback to develop a final written report within 180 days. The report must include recommendations that, at a minimum, address the following:Applicable national best practices and professional norms governing the provision of holistic client-centered indigent defense services; Determined need for enhanced or additional interdisciplinary indigent defense support staff and services at both bail presentation and subsequent hearings, including the appropriate provision of resources. As defined per Section 17(t) of the Consent Decree, “support staff” refers to social workers, disposition specialists, caseworkers, mitigation specialists, and/or investigators. Proposed operational changes to develop more robust systems of holistic indigent defense.