Microsoft Power Platform, Azure Data Services, and Azure Artificial Intelligence Services

The Air District seeks to leverage modern information technology (IT) platforms to improve operational efficiencies and business processes, manage air quality data effectively, enhance reporting capabilities, and automate workflows. To support this effort, the Air District seeks qualified firms with experience and expertise in the following three (3) categories:

A. Microsoft Power Platform;

B. Azure Data Services; and

C. Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Qualified firms will support and implement new and existing projects, provide consulting services, and help build staff capacity through knowledge transfer. Services will be provided on an as-needed basis.

Respondents may submit qualifications for one or more categories. The Air District intends to create a list of qualified firms (hereinafter referred to as "bench") for each category of service. The Air District may use the bench, at its sole and absolute discretion, on an as-needed basis. The duration of the bench will be for a period of four (4) years with an estimated budget not to exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000) over the four (4) year period.

The Air District is the government agency responsible for protecting air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Air District is tasked with regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties. It is governed by a 24-member Board of Directors composed of locally elected officials from each of the nine counties. The Air District’s mission is to improve air quality to protect public health, reduce historical and current environmental inequities, and mitigate climate change and its impacts.

The Air District aims to achieve its mission through many strategic goals, including: reducing and eliminating health problems caused by air pollution, achieving and maintaining air quality standards, leading the Bay Area’s efforts to fight global climate change, creating high-quality regulatory programs, and applying environmental best practices in all operations. To do so, the Air District regulates air pollution emissions from stationary emission sources such as factories, refineries, and power plants, and from smaller facilities like gas stations and dry cleaners. The Air District ensures that such facilities comply with air pollution laws and regulations, provides incentives to replace older, higher-emitting vehicles and equipment with cleaner alternatives, and gives grants and provides outreach to encourage healthy clean air choices by businesses and consumers. The Air District implements these efforts with an equity focus, aiming to reduce air quality disparities and promote environmental justice by targeting local air pollution in overburdened communities.