Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Emergency Response Program (ERP) is intended to provide life-saving emergency shelter beds to people experiencing homelessness during severe weather events and other emergencies throughout the fiscal year (July 1st – June 30th). Severe weather events include, but are not limited to, severe cold, rain, heat, flooding, and tropical storms. The goal of the program is to bring people indoors if circumstances pose an imminent danger to unsheltered individuals. Through this effort LAHSA is seeking to identify: • Unfunded Beds – Current Interim Housing providers who have unfunded beds at an existing interim housing site and would like to operate an ERP utilizing these unfunded beds; • Agencies Willing and Able to Staff Pop-Up Shelters - Interim Housing providers who are able to deploy staff to pop-up shelters (locations to be determined) within 24 hours’ notice and provide interim housing services on a temporary basis; • Facilities that could be used to host an ERP. LAHSA is issuing this RFP for Operations of the Emergency Response Program. The Emergency Response Program operates throughout the County of Los Angeles. This RFP seeks to establish an eligibility list of Interim Housing Operator(s) with unfunded beds that can be used for the ERP program; a list of interim housing operators with the capacity and willingness to staff pop-up shelters (sites to be determined) within 24 hours’ notice and provide interim housing services on a temporary basis; and a list of facilities that can be used to host an ERP. This RFP will not result in funding recommendations for proposers to operate specific locations. Qualified Interim Housing Operators and facilities, as established by this RFP, will be selected for funding, and contracted for Emergency Response Program according to the criteria listed in Section 6 – Funding Available and Funding Allocation Strategy below. Proposers funded under this RFP will be required to operate as collaborative partners within the existing Los Angeles Coordinated Entry System (CES) (Locally coordinated process designed to coordinate program participant intake assessment and provision of referrals.). Proposers qualified under this RFP will utilize LA Continuum of Care (CoC) approved assessment tools and are required to comply with standardized operating policies and procedures developed and adopted by LAHSA and the CES partners.
