EXTRA-79506 - USA (Mississippi) - Technical Assistant and Consultant Services - Deadline November 20,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide technical assistant and consultant services to the government authority located in Mississippi.• Provide practical, on–site technical, managerial, and financial (TMF) capacity support to public water systems• Represents an evolution of agency prior small–system assistance activities by establishing a structured, field–based program that delivers consistent statewide coverage and measurable outcomes, maintaining.• Guidance in sampling, reporting, and asset–management documentation• Mentoring for operators and managers, particularly at under–resourced systems• lead–service–line inventory development• Emerging–contaminant sampling• Other capacity–development needs.• Capacity development;• Asset management;• GIS data development; and• Pilot projects for water–loss reduction.• Measurable improvements in small–system performance– underperforming systems will show Improvement in their capacity scores reducing non–compliance events.• Enhanced asset–management capacity systems will complete an asset management plan and be trained to keep it updated, giving them a clearer basis for planning future upgrades and capital investments.• Improved readiness for infrastructure investment systems will understand the value of GIS data and be trained to map their own infrastructure and be trained to respond effectively to natural disasters and other emergencies(2) All questions must be submitted no later than November 20, 2026.