Career Pathway Platform

The vendor required to provide career pathway platform industry-driven, competency-based career pathways are critical for filling skills gaps and meeting high-demand workforce needs.
- Plan, set up, and manage project
a. Plan
1. Initial project work plan
•    Identify customer groups and roles for this project 
•    Identify which customer groups and roles will be engaged in particular phases and tasks of the project work plan 
•    Define level of engagement for each customer group and role to support customer involvement and continuous collaboration and feedback throughout the project while working toward project deadlines and completion 
•    With the council project manager, send calendar holds for these phases and tasks and adjust as needed 
•    With the council project manager, send calendar holds for these phases and tasks and adjust as needed
2. Ongoing project updates
•    Department work management platform of choice is asana. 
•    The vendor will not be required to use asana for internal work management. 
•    Asana is highly preferred as the vendor’s mechanism for ongoing status and project management updates to department and, as needed, its stakeholders.
3. Customer journey maps
•    The vendor will document the goals of the customer journey map.
•    The vendor will create a visual representation of every step a customer takes when interacting with the platform 
•    Document customer roles and description. 
•    The vendor will hold virtual information gathering sessions, as needed, to gather information from each customer role.
4. Problem statement and success metrics
•    Establish baseline metrics. 
•    Establish tracking intervals to assess success metrics 
•    Establish how updated metrics will be shared as part of the project work plan. 
•    Present the documentation of the problem statement, baseline and success metrics, tracking intervals, and how and where to find updated metrics to the council project manager and project sponsor(s) for review.
b. Set up
•    Share the initial project work plan with user groups and roles involved 
•    Create document repository and file management structure for the project 
•    Share relevant folders and documents with the user groups and roles involved 
•    Documentation that is delivered may be stored in state google drives.
c. Manage
•    Project work plan
•    Mapping of user groups and roles
•    Updates to the qualitative and quantitative success metrics.

- Contract Period/Term: 5 years
- Pre-Proposal Meeting Date: January 5, 2026
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 5, 2026