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Chair Lee Questions COMPASS Application Volume and Scoring Criteria

New York City Council · May 28, 2026 · starts 2:52:44 · 2 min 25 sec

Chair Linda Lee asks for the total number of COMPASS applications received, the percentage of providers awarded contracts, and the criteria used to score applicants.

Luisa Linares

And what was the final number of applications received for both the center-based and the school-based providers?

Luisa Linares

I'm gonna defer it to our youth services team to provide that information.

Luisa Linares

And then, sort of the second part to that question, which I'll just ask is what percentage of the center-based providers who submitted an application received an award.

Luisa Linares

So the first part is just total number of applications received for both.

Luisa Linares

Thank you, Chair.

Luisa Linares

I think it was roughly 209 center-based proposals.

Luisa Linares

Forgive me if I'm a little off.

Luisa Linares

And we had proposals from roughly 3,500, if you consider each of the individual schools.

Luisa Linares

Because we had a community district competition, it was many fewer than that, and we can get back to.

Luisa Linares

Okay.

Luisa Linares

And then okay, so 209, and then how many of those that submitted were awarded for the center-based?

Luisa Linares

121.

Luisa Linares

Right, 121.

Luisa Linares

Okay, out of the 209.

Luisa Linares

Okay.

Luisa Linares

And what percentage of school-based providers uh received an award?

Luisa Linares

So 3,500 applicants, and then it was sorry, what was the number?

Luisa Linares

We made 806 awards in the school-based competition.

Luisa Linares

Yes.

Luisa Linares

And then there were as you said, 3,500 that applied, right?

Luisa Linares

3,500 individual school proposals, but many fewer if we count them by the community district proposals.

Luisa Linares

Okay.

Luisa Linares

Just to add, sorry, it's for school based, it was 228 providers, unique providers that applied, 147 were awarded.

Luisa Linares

For school base.

Luisa Linares

For school base.

Luisa Linares

Okay.

Luisa Linares

Thank you.

Luisa Linares

And then what was the criteria used to score the Compass RFP applicant and what was deemed as an unviable score?

Luisa Linares

So the criteria was organizational experience, service requirement, staffing, community partnership, approach, and budget.

Luisa Linares

Those were the criteria that we looked at, and the minimum score was a 70.

Luisa Linares

Minimum was 170, okay.

Luisa Linares

Okay.

Luisa Linares

Um, I know there's going to be a lot more questions on that, so I will leave it to my colleagues.