Texas Workforce Commission Procurement Opportunities
The state workforce agency for Texas posts its competitive solicitations here, including Requests for Qualification used specifically for professional services — the usual vehicle for research and evaluation work.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award figures published; the only dollar threshold stated is the $25,000 ceiling for Requests for Quote. Contract values vary by solicitation.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Solicitations post on a rolling basis with deadlines set per solicitation. Requests for Information are used to signal solicitations the agency expects to issue later, which is the earliest warning a would-be bidder gets.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Early-career faculty, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to vendors responding to TWC solicitations. The agency uses RFPs, Requests for Qualification (described as typically used for professional services), Invitations for Bid, Requests for Offer, Requests for Information, and Requests for Quote limited to purchases under $25,000 for non-IT products and services. Bidders work through the agency's contracting opportunities section; awarded contracts are searchable in the Legislative Budget Board contracts database.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- workforce development · state agency procurement · program evaluation · unemployment services · vocational rehabilitation
- Apply at
- https://www.twc.texas.gov/agency/procurement-opportunities
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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