| (a) An Application may by submitted requesting funds
for Program Participant services under street outreach, emergency
shelter, homeless prevention, and/or rapid re-housing. Each Application
submission will include one uniform Application with information applicable
across all Program Participant service types, and then information
on each Program Participant service requested. Each Program Participant
service reflected in an Application will be treated as a separate
Application, assigned a separate Application number per service type,
and will be scored and ranked separately for each service type selected.
Applicants may be awarded funds for one or more Program Participant
services in accordance with this section. Because each Program Participant
service is reviewed separately and competes separately, an award of
funds for provision of one Program Participant service does not affect
an award of funds in any other Program Participant service reflected
in that same Application submission.
(b) Applications submitted directly to the Department
for under this section will receive points based on experience, program
design, budget, previous performance, and performance measures. Applications
will be scored and ranked based on selection criteria described in
this subchapter.
(c) Applicants for a competitive award will be required
to submit a self-score within the Application. In no event will the
points awarded to the Applicant exceed the point value of the self-score
in any selection criterion.
(d) Tie breakers. Each Application submitted to the
Department for a competitive award shall be assigned a number between
one and the total number of applications. The number assignment will
be determined in a random selection process to occur immediately following
the close of the application acceptance period, and Applicants will
be notified of said number assignment as soon as possible thereafter.
The randomly assigned numbers will be used to resolve ties, with the
highest assigned number having the highest priority.
(e) Partial awards. In order to maintain funding within
the Allocation Formula amounts designated for each CoC region as determined
in this subchapter, an Applicant for a competitive award may be offered
a partial award of their requested funds. An Applicant offered a partial
award of funds must confirm their acceptance of a partial award, and
submit updated information related to the reduction within seven calendar
days following the date of notification. Scoring criteria may be updated
based on the reduced funding request, but any changes to the scoring
criteria must allow the Application to maintain its rank.
(f) Regional Funding Competition. Funding will be recommended
first for Applicants within the CoC region up to the Allocation Formula
amount designated for the CoC region as determined in this subchapter.
(1) Eligible Applications will be ranked in descending
order by score within the CoC region which the Application proposes
to serve. Subsection (d) of this section will be used to determine
the priority of tied scores.
(2) ESG funds allocated to each CoC region will be
awarded starting with the highest ranking Application and continue
until the funds allocated for that CoC region are fully utilized,
but not exceeded, or until the Applicant for the last Application
to be recommended in the region declines an offer of a partial award.
(3) Applications proposing street outreach or emergency
shelter will be ranked alongside all Applications in the region, however,
a recommendation for a full award of an Application for street outreach
or emergency shelter will not be made through the first level of funding
if funding recommendations in the CoC region for street outreach and
emergency shelter will exceed 60% of the funding remaining in the
CoC region after direct Subgrants and acceptance of continuing awards.
Applications proposing street outreach and emergency shelter services
but causing awards for such services in the region to exceed 60% of
the available funding in the region, will be offered a partial award
of up to the amount remaining to reach 60% for the region. If no funds
remain available that would not exceed 60% at the regional level for
a partial award, or if they decline such partial award, the Application
will be passed over and recommendation of funding would proceed to
the next highest scoring Application(s) in the region in order to
fully fund the Formula Allocation amount for the region. Applications
that were passed over for funding may be eligible to compete in the
statewide funding competition, if no more than 60% of funds have been
awarded for street outreach and emergency shelter in the total allocated
funds.
(4) A partial award may be offered to the last highest
ranking Application which is otherwise eligible for funding within
the regional competition to ensure that the amount of funds recommended
for a region does not initially exceed the amount identified in the
Formula Allocation. Partial awards will be offered under the regional
competition only if the funding remaining in the CoC region is more
than $30,000.
(A) The Applicant or Applicants that accept an offer
of a partial award may be required to amend the Application if the
reduction in funds is expected to impact scored items and to adjust
performance deliverables based on the reduced amount of funding. The
revised score based on the partial award must still ensure the Application
ranking would not be affected. If a partial award or the Applicant's
subsequent adjustments results in a reduced score that alters their
scoring rank within the regional competition, the opportunity to be
funded from the first level of funding recommendations will not be
offered to the Application.
(B) The Applicant may decline the partial award of
funds and instead request to be included for consideration in the
statewide competition.
(g) Statewide Funding Competition. If any funds remain
after recommendations for all eligible Applications in the regional
funding competition, such funds shall collapse and be made available
in the statewide competition.
(1) All eligible Applications not recommended to be
awarded under the regional funding competition will be ranked in descending
order of score with the highest scoring unfunded Application, regardless
of region, having the highest priority rank. Subsection (e) of this
section will be used to determine the outcome of tied scores.
(2) Funds will be awarded in the statewide funding
competition starting with the highest ranked Application and continuing
until no funds remain available to award or until there are no eligible
Applications left to be recommended for funding.
(3) Applications proposing street outreach or emergency
shelter will be ranked alongside all Applications. If the 60% of the
allocated funds has been awarded to Applications proposing street
outreach and emergency shelter, Applications proposing these activities
will not be recommended and will be passed over to fund Applications
proposing homeless prevention or rapid re-housing.
(4) The final award in the statewide funding competition
and the 60% capped street outreach and emergency shelter funding may
be a partial award if an Application cannot be fully funded.
(A) An Applicant that accepts an offer of a partial
award may be required to amend the Application if the reduction in
funds is expected to impact scored items and to adjust performance
deliverables based on the reduced amount of funding. The revised score
based on the partial award must still ensure the Application's ranking
would not be affected. Partial awards may only be offered if the remaining
funding exceeds the minimum award amount as stated in the NOFA.
(B) The Applicant may decline a partial award of funds.
Applicants that decline a partial award of funding within the statewide
competition will be withdrawn from competition, as there are not sufficient
remaining funds to award the Application.
(C) If a partial award or the Applicant's subsequent
adjustments result in a reduced score that alters the scoring rank
or an Applicant declines a partial award, the next highest ranked
Application will be presented with the opportunity to be funded.
(h) If there are still funds available after the statewide
funding competition, the Department may offer and recommend award
amounts in excess of the funds requested and in excess of the award
amount limits identified in §7.33(c) of this subchapter (relating
to Apportionment of ESG Funds), starting with the highest scoring
Applications already identified to be recommended for an award, not
to exceed an award more than 50% greater than their original request.
The Department will provide notice of the proposed increase to the
impacted Applicants. The budget and Performance targets would increase
proportionally to the additional funding received. An Applicant will
have the opportunity to accept or reject the recommendation for increased
funding prior to final award by the Department.
(i) The Department reserves the right to negotiate
the final Contract amount and local Match with a Subrecipient.
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