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Selected to 10 City of Seattle Consultant Rosters

Pre-qualified across 10 City of Seattle Consultant Roster categories (2025–2030). Here's what that means for department leads — and how to bring ToyBox in on a task order without running a full procurement.

The City of Seattle confirmed the placement on June 9, 2026: ToyBox Consulting & Management has been selected to 10 City of Seattle Consultant Rosters. Term: December 2025 through December 2030.

This is the operational unlock most people miss when they hear about a consultant roster placement. So — here's what it actually means for Seattle department leads, and how to use it.

The 10 categories

ToyBox is pre-qualified across the following City of Seattle roster categories (Small Business classification):

• Race & Social Justice Consultants
• Communications
• Public Information & PR
• Training
• HR
• Management Services
• Ethnic Community Outreach
• Project Management
• Ethnic Media Direct
• Technical Writing

What "pre-qualified" actually means

A roster placement means the City has already run the procurement diligence. Vendor packet, insurance, W-9, references, capacity — all reviewed and approved. Department leads can now bring ToyBox in on a task order without re-running the full procurement cycle every time.

Translated to a project timeline: work that used to require a 60-to-120-day RFP process can now start in days, not months, on the strength of a scope of work and a task order.

Who this is for

If you're inside a City of Seattle department and any of the following describe your current pile —

• You have equity-infrastructure work that needs to be scoped, structured, and delivered before end of fiscal year.
• You have a communications or public-information effort that needs project leadership and doesn't want to sit through a full agency onboarding.
• You have management services or HR gaps that could use a fractional operator for the next 90 to 180 days.
• You need someone who has actually worked inside nonprofit compliance, government contracting, and small-business ops — not one of the three.

— a short capability call is the fastest way to find out if ToyBox fits.

How task orders get assigned

Julie Salinas is the City's Roster Coordinator and the right first stop for department-side questions about the roster process: julie.salinas@seattle.gov · (206) 684-0383. She can walk you through the task-order mechanics from the department side.

The credentialing picture

The roster placement sits on top of a broader public-sector credentialing base:

• Three active Washington State Commerce appointments (Seattle-King Local Advisory Team for $7M in reinvestment, CFVIP grant evaluator, Reentry grant evaluator).
• CompTIA Project+ (IT project management certification).
• Intuit QuickBooks Online Certified User (financial systems).
• 20+ years operating cross-sector — nonprofit, government, private sector.

Woman- and Black-owned small business. Bellevue-based, serving the Puget Sound region.

Getting a task order started

If you're a Seattle department lead reading this and thinking about your next scoping: katoya@toyboxconsulting.net, or book time directly via the call button at the end of this post. A first call is 30 minutes, no obligation, no packet required — just tell me what's on your plate.