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Request for Proposals – Housing Counselor Resource Program Grants

The Authority is seeking proposals from vendors interested in the following:

WHEDA is administering the Housing Counseling Resource Program (“HCRP”) made available by an allocation from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (“FHLBC”).  The HCRP will provide grants to HUD-approved housing counseling agencies (“Agencies”, and each an “Agency”) in Wisconsin to facilitate expanded reach and service to low-to-moderate income and underrepresented homebuyers and existing homeowners.  The goal of HCRP is to expand the pipeline of purchase-ready families and aid in successful, long-term homeownership.

The two-year grant cycle starts October 1, 2025, with $4 million available to HUD-approved housing counseling agencies for capacity building to expand community engagement and outreach, one-to-one counseling and group education for potential homebuyers as well as post-purchase counseling and foreclosure prevention for existing homeowners.

The 2025-2027 HCRP builds on a prior three-year program that awarded $3.5 million in funds to nine HUD-approved agencies throughout Wisconsin. Participating agencies made investments in, technology and systems, marketing, and personnel.

WHEDA intends to use the results of this process to make grant awards to multiple selected Agencies covering multiple regions in the State of Wisconsin of up to a maximum of $350,000 per Agency over the two-year grant cycle (or $175,000.00 per year). There is no minimum award amount. As a competitive grant process, WHEDA reserves the right to grant partial awards based on program demand.

If selected, WHEDA will require a copy of a validated HUD 9902 Form each reporting quarter from each awarded Agency to be submitted to WHEDA along with a narrative report describing activities from the quarter related to program impact.

WHEDA will also require other quarterly-reporting information for each disbursement of funds, or as otherwise required in the required Grant Agreement between WHEDA and each awarded Agency.

WHEDA, in its sole discretion, shall determine which Agencies, if any, shall receive a grant awards, and the amount of each such award.

RFP Questions are due on or before:  May 22, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CT

RFP Due on or before:  June 16, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CT

Request for Proposals – RF Data Center Colocation Services

WHEDA is seeking assistance from a qualified Data Center to provide services to house the technology footprint for WHEDA’s Disaster recovery site.  Currently, WHEDA houses its offsite storage, networking, server hardware and firewalls in our Milwaukee Office data center.  With the move to mobile computing and a possible relocation on the Milwaukee facility, WHEDA is looking to disassociate its technical infrastructure away from the location that will house staff.  Converting the new Milwaukee office to a more café style workspace. 

The colocation data center facility will provide external internet egress and house several VMWare host servers, palo Alto firewalls, Commvault offsite server, tape library, and SAN equipment for live daily replication.

WHEDA IT Staff estimates the footprint for the new Colocation setup to occupy 2 standard Server racks. 

This will include:

5 - 1U Network Switches
5 - 2U Proliant DL380 Servers
1 - 4 U Tape Library
1 – 1U KVM
1 – 1U Environment Monitor
2 – 4U Dell Unity SAN Shelves
2 – 1U Palo Alto Firewalls

RFQ Questions are due: May 15, 2025, by 2:00 p.m. C.T.

RFQ DUE on or before: May 29, 2025, by 2:00 p.m. C.T.

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