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Chair Lee questions Compass RFP application numbers and scoring criteria

New York City Council · May 28, 2026 · starts 2:52:50 · 2 min 15 sec

Lee asks for total applications received. Officials report 209 center-based proposals with 121 awarded, 228 unique school-based providers with 147 awarded, and 3,500 individual school proposals. The minimum viable score was 70, based on organizational experience, staffing, community partnership, approach, and budget.

DYCD Official

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

Linda Lee

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?

Linda Lee

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

DYCD Official

Thank you, Chair.

DYCD Official

I think it was roughly 209 center-based proposals.

DYCD Official

Forgive me if I'm a little off.

DYCD Official

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

DYCD Official

competition, it was many fewer than that, and we can get back to you.

Linda Lee

Okay.

Linda Lee

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

DYCD Official

121.

Linda Lee

Right, 121.

Linda Lee

Okay, out of the 209.

Linda Lee

Okay.

Linda Lee

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

Linda Lee

So 3,500 applicants.

Linda Lee

And then it was, sorry, what was the number?

DYCD Official

We made 806 awards in the school-based competition.

Linda Lee

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

DYCD Official

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

Linda Lee

Okay.

DYCD Official

Just to add, sorry, for school-based, it was 228 providers, unique providers that applied.

DYCD Official

147 were awarded.

Linda Lee

For school-based?

DYCD Official

For school-based.

Linda Lee

Thank you.

Linda Lee

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

DYCD Official

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

DYCD Official

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

Linda Lee

Minimum was 70, okay.

Linda Lee

Okay.