Employer Child Care Solutions

The Vendor is required to provide to employers who are interested in exploring how to meet the child care needs of their employees, including the development of employer-supported site-based child care.
- Employers to ascertain how to best support the child care needs of the employees, to determine the feasibility of developing a child care program, and to potentially connect with child care providers willing to offer site-based child care.
- Acting as a child care resource and referral service that provides resource hubs for families, child care professionals and communities by providing referrals to local child care providers, information on state licensing requirements, information on where to get help paying for child care, information on services for children with special needs, and other related activities;
- Arranging or securing child care or back-up child care for an employer’s employees;
- Construction of child care facilities; and
- Development or implementation of a software solution.
- An Employee Needs Assessment of the needs of the local employee community must include the following required elements: employee interest and demand, community demand, capacity and areas with the most need for additional child care resources, and the availability of child care in the communities where employees live and work.
- Feasibility Study of an employer-supported child care program, including, but not limited to, governance, oversight and associated risks, child care regulations, quality standards, licensing requirements, child care staffing needs, and partnering with a third-party child-care program operator.
- The required element for the Feasibility Study is to clearly indicate the feasibility of the Employer establishing its child care operation versus partnering with a third party.
- The Cost Analysis Study should include an analysis of costs such as cost optimization options, availability of alternative funding, short- and long-term costs (required element), financial risk (required element), and costs or savings associated with potential third-party operations (required element).
- An analysis of Employer-supported child care options and recommendations for potential solutions.
- Potential solutions include, but are not limited to, the following:
o    Partnering with existing child care programs compared to opening a new program;
o    Existing public and private resources (for example, child care subsidies or donated space);
o    Potential partners and/or third-party program operators;
o    Employee benefits (for example, Employer-funded tuition/fee offsets, dependent care savings accounts, and/or incenting waitlist priority for employee’s children); and
o    Family friendly workplace policies (for example, flex-time, flexible start and end times for the workday, and/or family medical leave).

- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Pre-Proposal Conference Date: September 16, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: September 19, 2025