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Submitting Proposals for Multiple Services | |
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When proposing for multiple services, is it acceptable for one agency to submit separate proposal for each type of services? If an agency wishes to submit a proposal breaking down the proposal area to the large categories of service as outlined in the service standards (i.e. Adoption, Family Centered Service, Foster Parent Services, etc.) and then submit it to multiple regions, would this be acceptable? For example: An agency writes a proposal to provide all of the Adoption services – provides a narrative for each service as prescribed - and then submits this one Adoption proposal to multiple regions, would this be an acceptable way to submit the proposal? If we are combining services in an application (e.g. home based intensive family preservation and home based intensive family reunification), can we combine ALL sections of the application? Can I put proposals for the same service standard in 2 different regions on the same application? If an agency would like to apply for several programs under the Family Centered Services Section of the RFP - Home-Based Family Centered Casework Services, Home-Based Family Centered Therapy Services, Homemaker/Parent Aid, can this all be combined under one proposal, or do the proposals need to be separate? If an agency would like to apply for several programs under Other Services such as Parenting/Family Functioning Assessment, Visitation Facilitation, Sexual Offender Treatment/Victims of Sexual Abuse Treatment, do all these need to be submitted as separate proposals or can they be submitted as one proposal. Can the above to questions be combined into one proposal? In completing Attachment B-1, if a provider would like to propose more than 10 services, should the provider just submit a Part 1 and a Part 2 of the Attachment B-1? Under the Program Narrative: A. General (Optional), “Maximum of 2 paragraphs and less than one-half page.” If we propose three different service standards, we should have 2 paragraphs for each of the 3 standards we are proposing under A, and 1 paragraph for each of the 3 service standards that we are proposing under C, D, and E. Therefore, we would have 2 paragraphs for each service standard that we are proposing under Intake & Proposal, 2 pages for each service standards under Practice Model, and 1 page for each service standard we are proposing under E. Is this correct? |
The proposal process encourages the inclusion of “logically related” groups of services within the same set of proposal documents. Services that share the same target population, i.e. adoption, or focus of intervention, i.e. home based, could meet this criteria, depending on how the services were structured by the provider. If a shared process for intake/referral and/or practice model exists, this also might justify including multiple Service Standards within the same proposal. One purpose of the proposal process is to document how a provider will address the requirements of each Service Standard proposed. With this in mind, it is the responsibility of each provider to bundle services in a way that best communicates this information as efficiently as possible. Section 2.4 lists those Service Standards that cannot be combined. |