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King County, WA
Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy
VSHSL Strategy SS5 – Veteran Provider Training Supports

CLOSED Deadline 6/4/2024

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Description [hide this]

Please refer to the RFP document under the Library tab to see the full RFP details.

OVERVIEW:

The Veteran Provider Training Supports Request for Proposals (RFP) seeks to fund up to 2 entities to provide trainings and cultural competency to the veteran-serving community on key issues that affect veterans, military servicemembers, and their families.

TIMELINE:

RFP Release Date: April 30, 2024

Information Session: May 8, 2024

Final Day to Submit Questions: May 28, 2024

Proposals Due: June 4, 2024 by 2:00 PM

Notifications Sent: July 2024 (tentative)

Contract Start Date: September 1, 2024 (tentative)

COMMUNICATION:

All documents to be submitted in response to this RFP should be uploaded through ZoomGrants.

The RFP Lead is the sole point of contact for this procurement. All communication regarding the subject matter of this opportunity between the applicants and DCHS upon release of this RFP must be through ZoomGrants or the RFP Lead, as follows:

Evan Brennan
RFP Lead
ebrennan@kingcounty.gov

Any other communication will be considered unofficial and non-binding on DCHS. Applicants are to rely on written statements issued by the RFP Lead. Communication directed to parties other than the RFP Lead on this opportunity may result in disqualification of the applicant.

The full RFP and associated attachments are available for download under the Library tab. Applicants are advised to review these documents in their entirety for guidance on the purpose, requested program models, application questions, and deadlines. Applicants are responsible for regularly checking ZoomGrants for any updates, clarifications, or amendments that may be uploaded.

**Information Session**
A virtual information session to discuss questions related to each part of this RFP will be held:

May 8, 2024, 12 - 1 p.m.

Join by Zoom: https://kingcounty.zoom.us/j/89039260563

Recording: https://vimeo.com/944203611

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This request is open to for-profit and nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, tribes and tribal organizations and public or governmental agencies serving communities in King County. Small nonprofit, community-based Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color-led organizations are encouraged to submit proposals.

Eligible Applicants must meet the following minimum qualifications:

Demonstrated history of veteran cultural competency and can prioritize providing trainings to organizations in King County that serve veterans, servicemembers, and their families
Submit a timely application within the scope of work of this RFP as outlined in Attachment A, Section II. C., RFP OVERVIEW: The Request.

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Description	File Name	Date Uploaded	File Type
Attachment A	VeteranProviderTrainingSupportsRFP.docx	4/29/2024 4:32:18 PM	DOCX
Attachment B	RFPSummaryQuestions.docx	4/29/2024 4:34:50 PM	DOCX
Attachment C	RFPNarrativeQuestions.docx	4/29/2024 4:35:16 PM	DOCX
Attachment D	Budget_Template_RFP.xlsx	4/29/2024 4:35:29 PM	XLSX
Attachment E	GAAproviders.docx	4/29/2024 4:36:01 PM	DOCX
Attachment F	KingCountyCouncilDistrictsMap.pdf	4/29/2024 4:36:45 PM	PDF
Attachment G	ZoomGrantsTipsandFAQsforApplicants.pdf	4/29/2024 4:37:01 PM	PDF
Amendment 1	Amendment_1_SS5_VPTS.pdf	5/20/2024 11:45:09 AM	PDF
FAQ - Updated May 20, 2024	VPTS_FAQ.pdf	5/20/2024 11:45:24 AM	PDF

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By entering your initials here you certify this submission truthfully and accurately represents your application and is hereby submitted for review. Submission of this application does not, in any way, guarantee that your application will yield a favorable result. Submission of this application also indicates your agreement to the terms of using ZoomGrants™. Final selection of awardees will be made by King County division and department directors based upon recommendations from the review panel and equity and geographic considerations to ensure services are responsive to funding priorities and community need. DCHS reserves the right to make such selections based on the best interests of King County, and as a result, may not select the highest scoring or lowest cost proposals for award, and will execute contracts based upon the final selections. DCHS intends to award one or more contracts to potential Applicant(s). The Procurement Lead will notify all Applicant(s) in writing of the acceptance or rejection of their RFP. Written notification will be sent via email to the email address(s) noted in the Proposal created within ZoomGrants.	Some fields are still empty... Initials
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Summary Questions Part 1 Summary Questions Part 2 Application Questions Budget Documents Activity Log

Summary Questions Part 2

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The following questions help King County’s Department of Community and Human Services understand the characteristics of organizations that are applying for this RFP.

These questions will not be used in the RFP scoring.

Contact Information (Continued)

1. Who is the agency's main contact for this RFP?

	I am the main contact
	Our organization's CEO/ED is the main contact
	A different person is the main contact

2. If you checked a different person above, please provide their name, title, and contact information.

Questions

3. Please list the King County Council District number(s) where you are planning on serving clients. Please refer to the Council Districts Map (Attachment F) for reference. If you are planning to serve participants across more than three districts, please explain how you will accomplish this.
in Attachment B

4. Have you ever contracted with King County or another public funder?

5. How would these funds support your organization? Check all that apply.

	Enable the creation of a new program
	Stabilize an existing service at its current capacity
	Enable an existing program to use a new model of service delivery
	Enable an existing program to serve additional clients
	Enable an existing program to better serve a specific sub-population
	Enable an existing program to serve individuals in a wider geographic area
	Other

6. If Other to Question 6, please briefly explain

Organizational Size

7. What was your organization’s annual operating budget the past fiscal year? If you are a satellite office of a larger organization, please provide the budget for your stand-alone entity.
The following questions will help us identify the number of large, medium, and small agencies applying for these funds.

8. How many full-time equivalents (FTE) does your organization employ? If you are a satellite office of a larger organization, please provide the FTE for your stand-alone entity.
Please calculate FTE by converting hours worked by part-time employees into full-time equivalent hours (e.g., two employees working 20 hours per week equals one FTE).

Sustainability

9. VSHSL requires invoices and makes payment on a monthly basis. At the beginning of the contract while your account is being set up, for instance, could your organization float expenses for up to 2 months?
This question will help us understand more about your organization’s financial capability during the contracting phase through to the end of the contract should you be awarded funding.

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This section will be scored. Please ensure there is sufficient detail in your narrative for reviewers to have a clear understanding of your responses.

Please Note:

Responses to all questions including the budget (Attachment D) are required.
The character maximum for each narrative question is 2,000 characters.

Organizational Capacity

1. Tell us about your organization, including what programs you operate and who you serve. What is your mission and vision? What makes you a leader in your community? (2,000 characters)

2. What is your experience providing trainings and workshops to community partners, and how is this similar or different to the work typically done at your organization? Describe your organization’s specialized understanding of veteran culture, military norms, and a host of circumstances, conditions, and systems that are specific to veterans, servicemembers, and their families. (2,000 characters)

Program Model

3. What trainings does your organization propose to provide to the veteran-serving population(s) and how often? What is your experience providing these types of trainings to the veteran-serving providers? (2,000 characters)

4. How will you outreach and engage with veteran-serving community in King County to increase awareness of training and attendance? How will you promote workshops? (2,000 characters)

5. Describe how your organization will manage trainings including taking registrations, email bulk participants, store video recordings, etc.? How will your organization provide follow up engagement to attendees and organizations served, including surveying training participants to solicit feedback? (2,000 characters)

Partnerships and Collaboration

6. Describe your agency’s history working in active collaboration with veteran community partners. Share how this experience would be valuable to the veteran-serving provider community. (2,000 characters)

7. Describe your agency’s history in collaborating with veteran community partners, including King County Veterans Program (KCVP), Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), and Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL)-funded programs to serve veterans, military servicemembers, or their families. Please include the names of organizations you collaborated with and the outcome(s) of such collaborations. (2,000 characters)

Equity and Social Justice

8. Describe the systemic barriers to service and inequitable outcomes experienced by the designated veteran population(s) identified in your proposal. How does this program reduce those barriers to ensure equitable access to services and outcomes? (2,000 characters)

9. Describe how accessibility for persons with disabilities (visible and invisible) informs the design and delivery of your programs. How does your organization identify accessibility needs and gaps in meeting these needs in the community? (2,000 characters)

10. Describe how your organization and program will partner with the VSHSL to reach the ERSJ goals of King County. (2,000 characters)

11. How are ERSJ values reflected in your organization’s employment practices (i.e., recruiting, hiring, retention, etc.) How does your staff reflect the lived experience of the community you plan to serve through this program? Please describe the steps you are taking to create more inclusive representation of the designated population identified in your proposal.

Budget and Fiscal

12. Please provide a detailed proposed budget covering the investment period (September 2024 – December 2026).
See the provided budget template in Attachment D. If you would like to include a narrative to accompany your budget, you may do so.

13. Have you ever contracted with King County or received other public funding? If so, please list awards in the past six years.

14. Describe how you intend to manage public funds should you be awarded VSHSL funding. Please describe how you intend to manage public funds should you be awarded VSHSL funding, including the organization’s ability to produce a detailed general ledger separated by fund source. If this is your first time managing public funds, do you anticipate needing capacity building (CB) supports from VSHSL?

15. Describe any audit findings or concerns during the last 24 months as well as the resolution of each (this can be a financial statement audit, federal single audit, monitoring site visit by King County or another federal, state or local agency). If there was a summary report of the outcome produced for any audit, please upload this report to the Required Documents tab in ZoomGrants.

16. Explain how your organization handles its finances. How do you make sure your accounting follows good practices and that there are checks in place to prevent errors or misuse of funds? If your organization is new or just starting out, describe how you plan to set up these financial systems. Will you use experienced staff in-house, out-source the work, or do you anticipate needing CB supports from VSHSL? (If so, please indicate this in Summary Question #6.)

Data Collection

17. Describe your organization’s capacity to collect and report data to King County. If your organization currently uses that data for CQI, please give examples (i.e., type of data, systems used to collect, how it informed programming, etc.). If your organization has not used data for CQI previously, please give examples of ways that you would like to use data to inform programming in the future. Do you anticipate needing CB supports from VSHSL to support data collection and reporting? (If so, please indicate this in Summary Question #6.)

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