Equine Consulting Services

The vendor is required to provide equine consulting services to facility manager or designee in the planning, development, and ongoing management of equine operations and related facilities.
- Horse purchasing:
•    Assistance with horse purchasing may involve supporting the department to envision their future with horses and their particular needs in a horse or horses. 
•    Include traveling to a seller's farm to assess prospective horses, as well as evaluating conformation, soundness, and training of horses. 
•    Characteristics of both human and horse such as disposition and prior life experience and training, and athletic ability, health, and soundness, are all critical elements which the consultant may be required to evaluate.
- Horse health and fitness:
•    Assistance with equine management on small acreage boarding facilities. 
•    Horse boarding on small acreage can present health challenges such as inadequate physical activity, stress, problems of confinement, too much food with high sugar content, metabolic disorders, exposure to ticks and tick-borne infection, as well as air, noise, and light pollution. 
•    To optimize the health and wellbeing of the horses, the consultant in conjunction with the facility manager or designee will be responsible for:
o    Management and development of the existing property and equipment
o    Optimizing pasture management
o    Coordinating veterinarian services
o    Coordinating farrier services
o    Coordinating tack services
o    Horse nutrition - feeding practices
o    Regular fitness schedules
- Safety
•    Safety in the barn and on horseback can be maximized with an assessment of existing structures, equipment, and tack. 
•    With the horses, safety may be evaluated on the ground and in the saddle. 
•    The equine consultant shall work in conjunction with the department's facility manager or designee to provide consulting services regarding existing structures, equipment, and tack, as it relates to safety. 
•    The equine consultant shall provide consulting services in the event of emergency and disaster situations regarding equipment and supplies, boarding and re-location of horses.
- Training
•    Law enforcement training differs from leisure riding. 
•    The equine consultant must have the ability to provide training in line with current law enforcement standards or provide proposals and development for such training. 
•    The consultant shall work with the facility manager or designee to ensure the riders are properly trained in standard riding procedures as well as coordinate training to ensure the riders are properly trained to take law enforcement action while riding. 
•    The consultant shall also provide valuable insight into the selection of new members to the department's mounted unit.
- Equipment: 
•    The consultant will work with the facility manager or designee to ensure the best and proper equipment is purchased and maintained. 
•    The consultant shall provide valuable insight and recommendations of new product and alterations to product currently in use.
- Equine consulting and police mounted management, such as:
•    Evaluation and advisory services related to equine health, nutrition, and stabling. 
•    Development of training protocols, rider safety standards, and mounted unit best practices. 
•    Support with acquisition, disposition, or reassignment of equine assets. 
•    Consultation regarding pasture management, tack and equipment suitability, and facility improvements. 
•    Emergency response or incident management involving mounted units, including injury mitigation and transport coordination. 
•    Oversight or participation in specialized training exercises, parades, crowd management deployments, or ceremonial functions.
- Budget: $15,000.00.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: September 17, 2025