Athletic Trainer Outsourcing of Services

The purpose of this RFP is to secure a qualified third-party provider to supply comprehensive athletic training services, including staffing, scheduling, event coverage, medical oversight, and athletic program management. Athletic Trainer (AT) services are focused on high school sports (grades 9 through 12) and may eventually include middle school (grades 7 and 8) as the program expands.

Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is comprised of 88 school sites and is the largest and oldest school district in Tucson, Arizona, serving approximately 40,000 students. Services would be expected for sporting events at the high school level and should focus on standardized approaches to support athletes in the district. TUSD is seeking a flexible, all-inclusive approach to athletic training support services that promotes the autonomy of scheduling and staffing in the role of the vendor selected. TUSD will expect the vendor to participate in a quarterly quality assurance model, collect data on services, and provide oversight of their own staff (recruitment, evalulation, retainment, and termination). The vendor will ensure coverage for events should the regularly-assigned AT is absent. TUSD is very campus-culture focused, so the focus of the vendor should be to retain the AT at the same site as long as possible, require them to become part of the school site's culture, and support a high-quality customer support model. TUSD also believes that we are all community; if services are required for visiting teams without an AT, TUSD expects the vendor to provide "courtesy" support to the visiting team at the time of injury.