SOI 1211 Repair and Renovation Project: Home-Based Child Care

The New York State Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS) announces a Solicitation of Interest (SOI) for qualified entities that are a New York State based not-for-profit (community-based encouraged) with established collaboration in the state's child care sector and at least three years' experience working with home-based child care business owners. OCFS is seeking an entity that will develop an infrastructure repair and renovation grant program and will provide comprehensive technical assistance to home-based child care businesses. Applicants must commit to staffing a skilled project team and having an application software system for grant management, payments, data storage, and reporting.

This advertisement is public notice that OCFS is seeking to contract with one organization to be the administrator and comprehensive technical assistance partner with OCFS for the Repair and Renovation: Home-Based Child Care project. Please see the SOI Scope of Work section for additional information.

The Repair and Renovation Project: Home-Based Child Care is a $10M infrastructure project, specific to home-based child care businesses in New York State. The project includes up to an additional $4M for administrative and technical assistance costs and fees. This project will give home-based child care businesses the opportunity to complete minor repairs and renovations to their child care environments. The goal is that these renovations and repairs will further increase the quality of the care environment and allow for increased enrollment or capacity of their programs. The comprehensive technical assistance to home-based child care business owners will promote overall quality of the care they provide to children and families.

DELIVERABLES:

Interested organizations must be able to perform the following services:

• Develop a repair and renovation infrastructure grant program aimed at home-based child care businesses.

• Develop and provide a technical assistance program to home-based child care businesses from design to completion of minor repair and renovation projects that increase quality of care and expand capacity of their services.

• Screen home-based, NYS licensed or registered, child care businesses for eligibility against the grant program requirements and prioritize the applications based upon readiness and applicability to meet programmatic goals.

• Create a system to monitor and review progress of projects for identified awarded home-based child care businesses.

• Establish partnerships between home-based child care businesses, community development financial institutions, building developers, planners, and contractors to remove barriers and support home-based child care businesses in completing quality renovation projects in a timely manner.

Eligibility Criteria

Interested parties who meet the following criteria are eligible to respond:

• Agree to provide the services outlined in the SOI Scope of Work section
• Are eligible to do business with New York State
• Be a New York State based not-for-profit organization.
• Have at least three years’ experience working and collaborating with home-based child care business owners.
• Have at least three years of Project management experience related to home-based child care repair and renovation projects
• Have at least three years’ experience facilitating working relationships with Community Development Financial Institutions, builders, and contractors.
• Agree to staff a project team which possesses the talent and expertise needed to fulfill the requirements of this SOI.
• Agree to obtain, or agree that applicant has, an application software system that can accept and track grant applications, administer payments, store data, and provide reports.

Please see the SOI document located in the "Documents" tab for additional information and submission requirements.