Through this Request for Proposal (“RFP”) the Vermont Department of Public Service (hereinafter “the Department” or the “State”), is seeking to establish contracts with one or more companies that can create and analyze a statistically valid survey and facilitate two focus groups. The Department represents the public interest and Vermont ratepayers in utility cases before the Vermont Public Utility Commission (“Commission” or “PUC”) and is charged with conducting a community needs assessment within the access service areas of incumbent cable operators seeking to renew Certificates of Public Good (“CPG”). The selected contractor(s) will assist the Department in conducting a community needs assessment that pertains to the petition of Spectrum Northeast, LLC d/b/a Charter Communications (“Charter”) for renewal of its CPG to provide cable television service in Vermont, filed with the Commission in Case No. 23-3732-PET.

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