QUESTION
What is covered under the exploration stage in BID development, and how does the BID formation process vary by phase?
0:52:49
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Deputy Commissioner Calvin T. Brown outlines the exploration stage in bid development and the variation in the bid formation process by phase.
- The exploration stage includes conducting a neighborhood needs assessment, identifying stakeholders, and a demonstration project, aimed at preparing for bid formation with a $20,000 grant.
- In the bid formation process, the use of funds varies by phase, supporting tasks like hiring consultants, stakeholder outreach, and legislative activities.
- The planning phase typically supports hiring a consultant for steering committee meetings.
- The outreach phase focuses on groundwork and engaging stakeholders.
- The legislative phase involves mailing and planned work activities, depending on the current phase of bid formation.
Oswald Feliz
0:52:49
And what would be covered under the exploration stage?
0:52:53
I guess doing Merchant Organization.
Calvin T. Brown
0:52:55
By Merchant Organization, but we do have a deliverable because part of it is to make sure that we're setting them get making sure that they do the prerequisites to get them into the bid formation pipeline.
0:53:06
So part of it is doing a needs assessment of their neighborhood, identifying who the stakeholders are.
0:53:12
So that's that and a demonstration project are, like, the main deliverables for bid exploration, the $20,000 grant.
0:53:20
Bid formation.
0:53:22
Like I said, it depends on where the steering committee is in the bid formation process.
0:53:28
Whether if they're in the planning phase, which is the initial stage of the bid formation process, many of the organizations use it to support hiring a consultant that can help facilitate those steering committee meetings.
0:53:40
If you're in an outreach phase, that requires a lot of on the groundwork, so it support a lot of the outreach that is done to the stakeholders.
0:53:50
And then if you're in the legislative phase, there's, like, some mail ins, there's some, you know, planned work that they have to do.
0:53:57
So it really depends on where they are in the phase.
Oswald Feliz
0:53:59
Yeah.