Request for Proposals: Nonprofit Workstations at the Southeast Community Center

Request for Proposals

Nonprofit Workstations Available at 
Southeast Community Center (SECC) at 1550 Evans Avenue, San Francisco
 

Request for Proposals Deadline Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 3 pm

Please attend the tour and informational meeting on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 10:30 am at the Southeast Community Center to learn more information.

Summary

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (“SFPUC”), a department of the City and County of San Francisco (“City”), operates the Southeast Community Center at 1550 Evans Avenue in San Francisco (“SECC”). The SECC opened on October 22, 2022, to replace the former Southeast Community Facility at 1800 Oakdale Avenue. The SECC provides programming in part to mitigate the environmental and social impacts of the SFPUC’s Southeast Treatment Plant's expansion in the 1970s and 1980s, for the benefit first of the residents of the Bayview-Hunters Point community and surrounding District 10 neighborhoods, and then the greater San Francisco community (“Local Community”). The SECC is a hub for the Local Community to gather, learn, play, and grow and serves as a connection between the Local Community and the SFPUC. 

The City, through the SFPUC, issues below-market rent leases and licenses for office space and workstations on the third floor to qualified non-profit corporations (“Resident Partners”). The third floor of the SECC consists of three separate office suites, two classrooms, one conference room, a break room, a copy room, common areas, and an open plan office suite with nine workstations and two conference rooms (the “Community Hub”). Each workstation in the Community Hub consists of one desk, one side cabinet, one office chair, and an enclosure (collectively, a “Workstation”).

The City, through the SFPUC, desires to enter into three-year licenses (each, a “License” or “Workstation License”) with three qualified non-profit corporations (each, a “Licensee”) under which each Licensee will use two Workstations for general office purposes and to support its provision of a particular type of programming.  The SFPUC plans to enter into one Workstation License to support free drop-in and pre-registered programming in each of the following three program areas: education, job training, and senior programming (each, a “Program Area”).  As a condition of the License, Licensees must offer a combination of drop-in and pre-registered programs at the SECC in a particular Program Area for a minimum of 720 hours per year (approximately 15 hours per week) that are open to the general public and free of charge.  

Subject to availability through the SFPUC reservation system, Resident Partners share non-exclusive use of Copra Crane Conference Room #302 (11-person seating, 21-person occupancy), Shipyard Classroom #315 (12-person seating, 29-person occupancy), and Islais Creek Classroom #328 (20-person seating, 39-person occupancy).

The annual rent for two Workstations will be $926 per month with 3% annual increases. At its sole cost City will provide basic utilities and services, including Wi-Fi,  janitorial, refuse removal, pest control, and routine building system maintenance. Licensees will be required to procure and pay for the insurance required by the City and provide a $3,000 security deposit. The Licenses are estimated to commence on July 1, 2026 and expire on June 30, 2029. 

The information presented above is only a summary and all interested respondents should review the entire Request for Proposals, including the Appendix C: License document for more information.

REVIEW THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Attachments to the Request for Proposals

• Appendix C: Form of License (The selected licensees will be expected to execute a standard SFPUC license in substantially the form attached as Appendix C to this RFP.)
• Appendix D: Community Hub Workstation License Proposal Form The Proposal Form must be filled out and emailed to RES@sfwater.org  before 3 pm on Thursday, March 12, 2026.
• Appendix E: Release of Liability (Appendix E must be filled out and emailed to RES@sfwater.org before 3 pm on Thursday, March 12, 2026.