Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 048 - Health, Department of
Sub-Agency 0077 - Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services
Chapter 3 - APPLICATION FOR FUNDS AND SELECTION OF PROVIDERS
Section 3-4 - Evaluation and Scoring of Applications

Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 3-4

Current through September 21, 2024

(a) Eligible providers may apply for funding.

(b) The Department shall give preference to current providers who are in compliance with contract requirements pursuant to W.S. 35-1-620(b)(vi) and shall begin contract negotiations.

(c) If two (2) or more applicants propose to provide the same services in the same service area and each applicant meets the criteria in Section 2 of this Chapter, they may be considered a competing applicant.

(d) If the conditions to grant preference under subsection (b) of this Section are not satisfied, the Department will score the competing applications according to the scoring criteria. When evaluating and scoring an application, the Department may consider information not included in the application but otherwise possessed by the Department.

(i) The Department will begin contract negotiations with the highest scoring applicant.

(ii) If the competing applicants' scoring results in a tie, the Administrator shall review and evaluate the competing applications. The Department will begin contract negotiations with the Administrator's highest scoring applicant.

(e) The Administrator may not award any application that:

(i) Does not meet the criteria according to Section 2 of this Chapter; or

(ii) Proposes to serve only a portion of an existing service area and if funding the application would jeopardize the continued services in the remainder of the service area.

(f) If the Administrator finds an applicant ineligible or does not award an applicant, the Administrator shall document the reasoning and shall notify the provider in writing of the denial.

(g) The Department may solicit additional applications to provide services in the service area. If the Department solicits additional applications, an applicant whose application was previously not awarded may resubmit an application to the Department.

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