Title
Resolution Authorizing Execution of Workforce Development Youth Services Contract With Arbor E&T, LLC, d/b/a ResCare Workforce Services in an Amount Not to Exceed $1,400,000 for Fiscal Year 2015-16
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Department: Executive/Office of Workforce Development
Council District: All districts
Public Hearing: No
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: Lillian Plummer, 373-8568
Contact 2 and Phone: Steve Jones, 373-3001
PURPOSE:
City Council approval is requested to authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with Arbor E&T, LLC, d/b/a ResCare Workforce Services in an amount not to exceed $1,400,000 to provide Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth services from October 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016.
BACKGROUND:
The Workforce Development Board (WDB)/City of Greensboro issued a Request for Proposals on June 15, 2015 to procure a WIOA Youth service provider for the period of October 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016.
The RFP required a service level of over 575 individuals per year (75% to be out of school youth); extensive experience in providing Workforce Investment Act/WIOA type services to disadvantaged and hard to serve youth including case management and development of intensive service plans; partnership experience with community organizations to provide wraparound services; experience with job placement for youth; experience with operation of a comprehensive authorization, payment and tracking system for program participants; and experience in providing a subsidized work experience program for a large volume of youth (25% of all expenditures are required to be made for work-based activities). The M/WBE Office searched the Greensboro MSA and was unable to identify certified M/WBEs capable of providing the services needed to fulfill those specific contract requirements. Section VII(h)(i) of the M/WBE Program Plan allows for such a waiver under these circumstances and one was granted by the City Manager's Office pr...
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