Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to modify non-profit service agreements with Dress for Success Columbus and United Way of Central Ohio for the provision of services for a twelve-month period that begins on or after January 1, 2022. These agreements were first awarded in 2019, renewed in 2020, modified in 2021, and will be modified in 2022 in an amount up to $134,000.00 ($80,000.00 for Dress for Success and $54,000.00 for United Way).
In 2018, a request for proposals (RFP) was issued via direct email to agencies (and City partners to send to their networks of agencies), by press release, and posting on the City’s website. The City received 142 proposals representing 101 agencies with over $19 million in requests. Of those, 44 programs were selected for funding in 2019 and agreements were authorized under ordinance 1170-2019. These agreements were renewed in 2020 under the authority of ordinance 0571-2020.
Historically, the department has done a RFP effort every two years and under normal circumstances such an effort would have been in late 2020 for 2021. Due to COVID-19 and its impact on the nonprofit sector and department priorities, the department had elected to extend these agreements in FY 2021 through an agreement modification, authorized by ordinance 0388-2021. Due to similar COVID-19 related circumstances in 2021, the department is electing to extend these agreements for FY 2022 through an agreement modification.
This ordinance includes authorization for two programs with authorization for the remaining programs being submitted as two separate ordinances.
It is the department’s intent to “modify” these agreements, which means executing the modification before the prior agreement has expired. Should circumstances prevent that, the agreements will be processed as an “original” agreement with the same scope of services as the original agreement in 2019 and up to the amount of this ordi...
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