Scholarships Government Bids & RFPs

Proposals selected based on number of New Haven participants to be served, previous record of success, and ability to provide a detailed program summary.

Applicants must be New Haven based nonprofit organizations and agencies applying with a sole focus on engaging youth as program participants must have a focus including but not limited to literacy, physical health and wellness, social, emotional and behavioral health, mental health, sexual health, homeless youth, special needs youth, youth job readiness, youth leadership, youth mentorship and youth mediation.

Proposals will be scored on a 100-point scale based on criteria including project rationale, work-based learning, and integration with economic needs. Proposals will be scored on a 100-point scale with the following values:

Students must be an Ohio resident seeking an undergraduate or graduate degree, or a for-credit certificate in an eligible STEM program. to be eligible for a choose ohiofirst scholarship, students must be: o an ohio resident seeking an undergraduate or graduate degree, or a forcredit certificate in a program of study that has a cip code on the fy27 choose ohio first eligible cip list and o be new to the program of study at the institution and o meet the institutions eligibility criteria.

OHDE may monitor projects, which may include site visits and desk audits, to ensure fiscal accountability. the ohio department of higher education odhe will monitor, which may include site visits and deskaudits, each project for which an award is granted to ensure fiscal accountability and progress toward orcompletion of intended outcomes.

Applicants can submit questions via email to ***@***. *. *, through September 23, 2026. applicants can submit questions via email to ***@***. *. *, through september 23, 2026 andwill be included in a faq document posted on the odhe rfp portal.

Proposals not containing all required elements will receive consideration but are not guaranteed funding. Proposals containing all the required elements willreceive consideration but are not guaranteed funding.

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The hearing will be canceled unless an interested party submits written comments or makes a written request for public hearing by Saturday, August 1st at 4 p. m. to the info contact above.

Offers must be submitted by January 17, 2024, at 2:00 PM. Any proposals not delivered in time will not be considered.

Award will be based on technical proposal and price. The award will be made to the offeror whose offer is determined to be the most advantageous to the State, considering price and evaluation factors set forth in the solicitation.

Offerors must be a certified accounting firm and comply with all applicable auditing standards and regulations. The audit must be performed in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, the provisions of government auditing standards, issued by the comptroller general of the United States the single audit act amendments of **** and omb circular a133, audits of states, local governments and nonprofit organizations.

To protest an award, written notice of intent to protest must be received within seven business days of the award notice posting, and the actual written protest must be received within fifteen days of the award notice posting. To protest an award, i written notice of your intent to protest must be received within seven business days of the date the award notice is posted, and ii your actual written protest must be received within fifteen days of the date the award notice is posted.

Submitting false, misleading, or incomplete information, or failing to comply with solicitation requirements can lead to disqualification. if you qualify your offer with statement such as: this is not an offer, you may be deemed nonresponsive and eliminated from further consideration.