Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(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 §
RSA
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.
