Texas Tuition Board Weights Qualifications at 80% in Outside-Counsel RFP
On September 29, 2026, proposals closed for the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board’s outside-counsel RFP, which weighted qualifications at 80% and fee reasonableness at 20% for work including 529 plans, municipal securities, tax and governance.
Inside Practice · OCTOBER 6, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
On September 29, 2026, proposals closed for the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board’s outside-counsel RFP, which weighted qualifications at 80% and fee reasonableness at 20% for work including 529 plans, municipal securities, tax and governance. The surfaced bid record shows that price mattered, but specialist credibility and capacity carried four times the formal weight. For law-firm BD teams, the lesson is to treat procurement scoring as a design brief: lead with evidence against the buyer’s weighted criteria rather than allowing hourly rates to dominate the response. Client-intelligence functions can improve win probability by mapping experience, references and relevant regulatory knowledge to each scored requirement before drafting begins.