STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance and Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: January 12, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Procurement Services
EXECUTIVE: Elizabeth Reich
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a one-year service contract for transportation services for persons experiencing homelessness for the Office of Homeless Solutions - Austin Street Center, most advantageous proposer of three - Not to exceed $340,000 - Financing: General Fund ($250,000) and ARPA Homelessness Assistance and Supportive Services Program Fund ($90,000) (subject to appropriations)
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BACKGROUND
This action does not encumber funds; the purpose of a service contract is to establish firm pricing for services, for a specific term, which are ordered on an as needed basis.
This service contract will provide for transportation services for persons experiencing homelessness currently provided by The Dallas Connector Project. The purpose of the program is to provide regularly scheduled transportation service for the homeless population to locations necessary to secure services such as healthcare, housing, and employment. Service began in October 2019 using one 25 passenger van and one 15-passenger van that travel daily between predetermined locations located on a 14-mile loop between the vicinities of Parkland Hospital and the North Texas Veterans Administration Healthcare Center. Each van completes the loop at least six times daily.
The 2021 Annual Homeless Point-In-Time Count, conducted in February 2021, indicates that 4,570 individuals were experiencing homelessness across the local Continuum of Care (CoC) at the time of the count. Of that number, 2,232 individuals are estimated to be unsheltered. The City, through the Office of Homeless Solutions, has enhanced its efforts to assist and serve persons experiencing homelessness, and to reduce the impacts of homelessness on the communities and busines...
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