RFQ: Tax Foreclosure Outreach Improvement

The City of Rochester is seeking submissions from qualified Consultants (“Consultant(s)”) to identify their qualifications for a future project intending to improve the City foreclosure process through the following services: (a) identification of phone numbers and/or email addresses for owners of properties in tax foreclosure (otherwise known as “skip tracing”), and (b) providing physical notice at the physical address of properties that are in tax foreclosure (such services hereafter referred to as the “Project”).

Examples:

1. Utilize proprietary search databases or skip tracing capabilities to identify potential phone numbers or email addresses for owners of properties in tax foreclosure. Return results in an electronic format (.xml, xls) that is importable to our tax foreclosure CRM database.
2. A onetime physical posting of a tax foreclosure notice to each property sometime in September or October.

While the City is seeking such submissions from Consultants, the 2025-26 Budget of the City is still under development and no funds have been formally set aside for the Project as of the date of publishing this RFQ. The City is interested in identifying firms that are qualified to perform work of this type and have the capacity to quickly mobilize to meet the needs of the City in the event that funding is secured through the formal budget process.

View the RFP

The dates shown above may be subject to change.

All communications by parties who have indicated an intent to submit or have submitted a submission in response to this RFQ (“Respondents”), including any questions or requests for clarifications, submission of the submission, requests for status updates about the submission selection process and any other inquiries whatsoever concerning this RFQ shall be sent, in writing electronically, to the following City staff person (“City Contact”):
John Fornof

Email: John.Fornof@cityofrochester.gov

No contact is permitted with any other City staff member with regard to this RFQ during the RFQ process unless specifically authorized in writing. Prohibited contact may be grounds for disqualification.

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