Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA)

SIPA will not be responsible for any costs incurred by any prospective contractor in the 

generation or submission of it's proposal, visits, presentations given to personnel or its 

designees, documentation provided to personnel or its designees, production of any 

literature, or any other costs incurred while participating in the proposal and evaluation 

process. 

All proposals and accompanying documentation provided in response to this RFP shall 

become the property of SIPA.  

SIPA shall exercise reasonable efforts to limit circulation of prospective contractor s 

proprietary materials to SIPA Board Members, SIPA employees, and the State of 

Colorado personnel or their designees. A prospective contractor must mark any submitted 

material, which he or she regards as confidential with a "PROPRIETARY MATERIAL" 

designation. Due to the public nature of the SIPA, the SIPA cannot guarantee that 

submitted materials will not be reviewed by outside parties. In any case, SIPA shall not 

be responsible for the inadvertent or accidental release of such materials to unauthorized 

parties.  

The prospective contractor may be required to submit, for the most current reported 

period, and a reasonable number of previous years, audited financial statements, a 

financial statement reviewed by a certified public accountant, a third party prepared 

financial statement if an audited or reviewed statement is not available, or another 

financial statement prepared in the routine course of the prospective contractor's 

business, in order to assist SIPA in making its determination of prospective contractor's 

financial strength and stability. 

SIPA reserves the option to request an on site presentation from any prospective 

contractor who submits a response to this RFP.  

SIPA may consider informally any proposal not prepared and submitted in accordance 

with the provisions of this RFP and reserves the right to waive any and all informalities 

or to reject any and all proposals. 

To be a responsive bidder to this RFP, a prospective contractor MUST attend the Pre bid 

Q&A Meeting.  A prospective contractor attending the Pre bid Q&A Meeting must 

submit all questions for consideration no later than 8:00 am MST, November 12, 2004.  

All prospective contractors will receive answers to the questions submitted as well as any 

RFP addenda, no later than 8:00 am MST, November 15, 2004. 

7.0 Requirements 

This RFP does not contain a detailed compilation of technical and management 

requirements.  Rather, a prospective contractor must demonstrate his or her  familiarity 

with this technical and management area in his or her response to the RFP as specified in 

Request for Proposal 10/29/2004 

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