Active SLED Opportunity · NEW YORK · CITY OF NEW YORK
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The City of New York seeks proposals for scattered-site supportive housing services to assist vulnerable homeless populations with affordable housing and social services. Contracts are for five years with an option to renew. Vendors must apply via PASSPort.
Purpose of the SolicitationIn November 2015 Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the NYC Supportive Housing Initiative to fund and develop 15,000 new units of supportive housing in New York City over the next fifteen (15) years. This far reaching and comprehensive initiative targets the most vulnerable homeless New Yorkers in need of supportive housing. Supportive housing combines affordable housing with appropriate social services to help special populations such as those who may have serious mental illness, substance use disorders, are young adults aging out of foster care or with a high usage of homeless services as well as other special populations as determined by the City that are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless so they may achieve housing stability. The goal of the program is to provide individuals access to the affordable housing market in safe New York City communities. The City’s 15,000-unit plan (NYC 15/15) is comprised of a projected 7,500 newly-developed congregate (single-site) units and a projected 7,500 scattered-site apartments rented from private landlords that are spread throughout New York City. The NYC Human Resources Administration (HRA) is the lead agency for procuring awards for the 15,000 supportive housing units. Ongoing contract management will be provided by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH.) DOHMH awarded 133 congregate units in 2016 and HRA has awarded 505 scattered-site units. HRA released the congregate RFP for 7,500 units in February 2017. A competitive procurement for scattered-site units with a specialized service model targeting young adult families and pregnant women ages 18-25 was released in 2018. On January 12, 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the formation of a Supportive Housing Task Force to help the City implement its plan to create 15,000 units of supportive housing. The Task Force included expert advisors who were able to leverage lessons learned from past supportive housing agreements and recommend new, creative approaches for development and service delivery. For this procurement, proposers are expected to find and lease apartments shortly after receiving an award. Apartments would be located citywide in neighborhoods that are in close proximity to public transportation and accessible to other amenities like shopping, laundry, health care and other necessary services. Apartments for any single program may be located in more than one borough. Living units should be studio, one, two and three bedroom, which offer tenants access to individual bathrooms, kitchens, and storage space for clothing and other personal items. The support services awarded through this RFP will assist individuals to develop and maintain healthy lives leading to an improved quality of life. For example, people with mental illness have life-expectancy seven years less than the general population due to preventable conditions, such as smoking related illnesses. Tobacco is the number one preventable cause of death for people with serious mental illness (SMI), and people with mental illness smoke at much higher rates than the general population. In NYC, the smoking rates are 44% for people with SMI compared to 15.5% of the general population and individuals with SMI do have a desire to stop smoking. Providers for the Scattered Site Supportive Housing programs will adopt a harm reduction and recovery oriented approach of service provision. These service approaches establish tenant choice in the receipt of services and the provider will deliver services in a manner that will avoid inadvertent (re)-traumatization while facilitating a tenant’s engagement in services. The program will increase the tenant’s capacity to manage their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and reach their fullest potential by providing tenant directed, recovery oriented services. The services are to be trauma-informed.Proposed Term of the Contract(s)The term for each contract will be five (5) years with one (1) option to renew for up to four (4) years unless the proposer requires a different term based on funding requirements. Use of PASSPortPASSPort is a web-based system maintained by the City of New York to manage procurement. To submit a proposal to the upcoming RFP, all vendors must create an account within the PASSPort system. Please visit www.nyc.gov/passport to create an account or to log into the system to view this RFP. If you have any technical questions or concerns about PASSPort please submit an inquiry to MOCS Service Desk.To respond to this RFP and all other Human/Client Service RFPs, organizations must have (i) a PASSPort account, and (ii) have an Approved HHS Prequalification Application in PASSPort. Proposals and Prequalification applications will ONLY be accepted through PASSPort. If you do not have a PASSPort account or Approved PASSPort HHS PQL Application, please visit nyc.gov/passport to get started.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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