California Code of Regulations › Title 10 - Investment › Chapter 7.71 - Defense Conversion Matching Grant Program › Section 5471 - Solicitation Process

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The
			 Office shall prepare a Solicitation each time it proposes to award Grant funds,
			 which shall include the deadline for submission of Proposals. The Office shall
			 be authorized in a Solicitation to limit the amount for which the Office shall
			 provide matching funds.
(b) A
			 Solicitation shall be mailed to every Person requesting a copy.
(c) All Proposals received by the due date
			 and place specified in the Solicitation shall be reviewed to determine
			 eligibility pursuant to section
			 5472. Applicants shall include in
			 the Proposal package both a signed original and five copies of the Proposal.
			 Only eligible Proposals shall be scored.
(d) The Solicitation shall describe the
			 Region covered by each Alliance. The Proposal shall be mailed to the Alliance
			 covering the Region where the Applicant's Project will take place. If a Project
			 will take place in a Region not covered by an Alliance, or is statewide in
			 nature, the proposal shall be mailed to the Office. As used in this subsection,
			 "statewide in nature" means that a substantial portion of the Project will take
			 place in more than one Region.
(e)
			 The Alliances and Office shall review the Proposals assigned to each for
			 eligibility, and evaluate and score the eligible Proposals according to the
			 Section 5474 criteria. No two proposals
			 shall receive the same score. Alliances and Funding Agencies shall be included
			 as nonvoting participants in the Office review, and the Office and Funding
			 Agencies shall be included as nonvoting participants in the Alliance
			 reviews.
(f) The Alliances and the
			 Office shall forward to the Office all eligible Proposals scoring a minimum of
			 25 points.
(g) The Office shall
			 establish review panels approved by the Council, including a nonvoting
			 representative from each Alliance and two or more voting members, including one
			 or more representatives from Funding Agencies. The review panels shall review
			 the Proposals forwarded by the Alliances and the Office and make a single,
			 consolidated, ranked list of Proposals complying with Section
			 5475(a) and is
			 ranked according to Section
			 5475(b) criteria.
			 The list shall only include Proposals for which funding is available, based
			 upon Proposals scoring the most points. If two or more proposals near the
			 bottom of the ranking have identical scores and if there is money to fund some
			 but not all identically ranked proposals, then there shall be oral interviews.
			 The purpose of the oral interviews is to re-rank the tied proposals.
(h) The Office shall forward to the Council
			 and the Alliances the proposed funding list, with a short description of each
			 Proposal on that list. The description shall address each of the subsection
			 (i)(1) through (3) items. Proposals will be sent to the Council upon
			 request.
(i) No later than 60 days
			 following the deadline for submitting Proposals, the Council shall recommend
			 funding for those Proposals receiving the highest ranking from the review
			 panel, unless the Council finds that changes to the ranking are necessary due
			 to:
(1) Failure of the Proposal to score
			 sufficient Section
			 5475 points to receive
			 funding;
(2) Conflict of interest
			 as defined by Government Code Sections
			 1090 or
			 87100
et seq.
; or
(3) Lack of geographic
			 diversity.