Legal Services for Municipal Finance Transactions

The Agencies are seeking proposals from qualified law firms (“Firms” or “Proposers”) (“Firms” or “Proposers”) in the State as the basis of re-establishing prequalified lists (“PQLs”) to serve as potential bond counsel and/or disclosure counsel (“Legal Services”) to one or more of the Agencies for various issues of bonds, notes, obligations, and other municipal finance matters. Using the PQLs, the Agency may select one or more firms to serve as lead bond counsel and/or co-bond counsel (collectively, “Bond Counsel”), in addition to a lead disclosure counsel and/or co-disclosure counsel (collectively, “Disclosure Counsel”), on an as-needed basis for its issuances. MWBEs and SDVOBs are encouraged to apply. The Agencies will make a determination during the evaluation process of proposals whether an MWBE and/or SDVOB applicant has the qualifications and experience to serve as (i) lead bond counsel and/or disclosure counsel; or (ii) co-bond counsel/co-disclosure counsel. This solicitation seeks to replace, not supplement, the Agencies’ PQLs for Legal Services (excluding PQLs that pertain to legal services other than municipal finance matters). Accordingly, firms on any existing Bond Counsel and/or Disclosure Counsel PQL must, if they wish to continue to be pre-qualified, respond to this RFP. Proposals may be submitted separately for HFA, SONYMA, MBBA or TSFC programs or may be submitted for all the Agencies collectively. The RFP has been uploaded to our Procurement Opportunities website at: https://hcr.ny.gov/procurement-opportunities. The Agencies will post periodic updates to Procurement Opportunities website. Therefore, Proposers are strongly encouraged to visit the link referenced above for all updates to the RFP. Proposal submissions are due on March 20, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT submitted to [email protected]. Please submit any questions regarding this RFP to [email protected] by March 6, 2026 at 12:00pm EST. Business enterprises awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract within the past five years: None Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB) SDVOB Goal: 6.00% Minority / Women Business Enterprise contracting goals (MWBE) MBE Goal: 15.00% WBE Goal: 15.00%