Artificial Intelligence Prep Services

The vendor is required to provide artificial intelligence (AI), which is advancing rapidly across the globe, revolutionizing industries such as healthcare, finance, transportation, and manufacturing.
- AI also raises concerns about widening economic inequality, particularly for low-income individuals who may lack the skills or access needed to benefit from the AI-driven economy.
- AI-related jobs require specialized education and technical training, which are often out of reach for lower-income individuals.
- AI education with equitable access to new opportunities, there is a risk that technological progress will disproportionately benefit those already in privileged positions, leaving underrepresented communities behind.
- Artificial intelligence prep
1. Track a: AI prep 4 internships
•    The administrator’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, developing and delivering a comprehensive AI technology training program for low-income college students that includes paid internship placements. 
•    The program should create direct pathways from education to the AI industry and help build a talent pipeline for AI employers. 
•    The administrator is expected to; develop a targeted outreach and recruitment strategy for low-income students, create a program application and evaluation process, conduct needs assessments to identify and address student barriers to success, design industry-informed AI curriculum, deliver and manage the AI training program, provide participant stipends and wrap-around supports including mentorships and career coaches with industry expertise, and help students secure paid internships. 
•    The administrator is also expected to cultivate and maintain relationships with leading industry employers, both to inform the content of training and to generate opportunities for paid internships.
•    The program’s curriculum should consist of online courses in AI, developed with input from leading researchers and industry experts, with opportunities for mentorship and real-world machine learning projects. 
•    The administrator should propose whether training program will be offered during the academic year or through summer courses, demonstrating alignment with employer internship hiring cycles and needs. 
•    The training should be tailored to help students secure paid internship placements with leading state technology companies. 
•    The internships should allow students to hone their newly acquired AI skills through real-world experience and make important networking connections as they launch their careers, ultimately leading to full time jobs.
2. Track b: AI prep 4 jobs
•    The administrator’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, delivering an industry informed, comprehensive AI technology training program that will equip low-income state barriers to employment with in-demand technical and professional skills and connect them to AI jobs.
•    Include a tailored outreach and recruitment strategy for unemployed, underemployed, and underrepresented, consist of online courses in AI with curriculum that incorporates input from industry regarding technical skills and learning milestones, a program application and assessment process, a training schedule that is immersive and can be delivered part-time or full-time, participant stipends and wrap-around supports including success coach staff to help address barriers to trainee completion, evaluation metrics to measure participant skill attainment during training, professional development support for trainees throughout training, credentials expected as a result of training completion (if applicable), and fulltime job connection support in an AI-related field. 
•    The administrator is expected to cultivate and maintain relationships with leading industry employers, both to inform the content of training and to generate full-time employment opportunities.
•    To launch the AI prep program, agency will invest up to $2m for each track (up to $4m total) to train and provide stipends for participating individuals.
- Budgets: $2M for one track or $4M.

- Contract Period/Term: 1.5 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: August 29, 2025