Felony Trial and Hearing Date Certainty

RFP Number: EOP 02-09 Felony Trial and Hearing Date Certainty-LM

The purpose of this Request for Proposals is to secure a contract to provide the services of a consultant with court administration expertise to develop a series of recommendations on improving caseflow management to better ensure hearing and trial date certainty in felony proceedings. The consultant will be expected to develop and implement qualitative and quantitative data-collection protocols in 6-8 courts to determine continuation policy and practice in each of the courts studied, as well as to assess the relationship between the "Local Legal Culture" (in terms of readiness) and hearing/trial date certainty. The project will include 5-day onsite visits to each participating court at which findings and recommendations will be presented to the court.

Questions should be directed to solicitations@jud.ca.gov by March 10, 2009, no later than 3:00 p.m. (PST).

Proposals must be received by March 30, 2009, no later than 3 p.m. (PST).

Hard copy proposals must be delivered to:

Judicial Council of California
Administrative Office of the Courts
Attn: Nadine McFadden, RFP: EOP 02-09 Felony Trial and Hearing Date Certainty-LM
455 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102-3688

Further details regarding the solicitation and program requirements are set forth in RFP: EOP 02-09 Felony Trial and Hearing Date Certainty-LM, provided below:

Request for Proposal