005 GO Bond Counsel

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Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania Treasurer REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND COUNSEL FOR FIRST REFUNDING SERIES OF 2025 ISSUING OFFICE Pennsylvania Treasury Department Bureau of Support Services Procurement Division Room 3T-A, Finance Building Harrisburg, PA 17120-0018 RFP25-005@patreasury.gov RFP NUMBER RFP25-005 DATE OF ISSUANCE April 28, 2025 1 PA TREASURY RFP25-005 TABLE OF CONTENTS Calendar of Events Part I: General Information Part II: Proposal Requirements Technical Submittal Standard Legal Services Contract Terms and Conditions Cost Submittal Part III: Criteria for Selection Part IV: Work Statement Objective Nature and Scope of the Project Contract Requirements Attachment A: Proposal Cover Sheet Attachment B: Contract Attachment C: Certification of Minimum Qualifications 2 PA TREASURY RFP25-005 CALENDAR OF EVENTS The Pennsylvania Treasury Department plans to adhere to the following schedule. Modifications may become necessary, however, as the activities described in the schedule take place. Treasury will take reasonable steps to inform interested parties of such modifications, including posting them on the Treasury Website. ACTIVITY RESPONSIBILITY Please monitor the Treasury Procurement website: https://patreasury.gov/procurement for all communications regarding this RFP Potential Offerors Issuing Office Issuance of RFP25-005 (posted to website https://patreasury.gov/procurement) Issuing Office Proposals must be received by the Issuing Office by 5PM EST. Proposals are accepted only via email to RFP25-005@patreasury.gov Potential Offerors 3 PA TREASURY RFP25-005 DATE April 28, 2025 May 2, 2025 by 5:00PM PART I: GENERAL INFORMATION I-1. Purpose Consistent with Executive Order 2015-02, the purpose of this RFP25-003 is to invite law firms previously qualified, based upon their responses to a previously issued Request for Qualifications (“RFQ”), by the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of General Counsel (“OGC”) and listed in the Bond Counsel Pool (any single law firm previously qualified a “Vendor” and all of the law firms in the Bond Counsel Pool the “Vendors”) to prepare and submit proposals to enable the Pennsylvania Treasury Department (“Treasury”) to select for contracting within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to serve as bond counsel for the Commonwealth’s anticipated debt refunding issuance, the First Refunding Series of 2025, under the Capital Facilities Debt Enabling Act.