Specifications include, but are not limited to: Phase One (1): Survey Tool Creation and Dissemination Revise the Department’s current standard communication and Survey Tool - APPENDIX G, to meet the current Federal guidelines. Attend the designated Children’s Cabinet meetings, to provide and elicit feedback regarding the Statewide Survey, methodology, and data points. Obtain and incorporate Child Care Provider feedback in the development of the Survey Tool. Obtain the Department’s approval of revised standard communication and Survey Tool prior to sending to the Child Care Providers. Send revised, Department-approved, standard communication and Survey Tool to Child Care Providers (approximately three thousand (3,000) Child Care Providers Statewide) by: Ensuring Study 1 is delivered by March 1, 2020; Ensuring Study 2 is delivered by March 1, 2023; and Ensuring communications include, but not limited to: Pre-notification email communication, postcard, and letter; A minimum of two (2) reminders sent on days fifteen (15) and thirty (30) following the initial Survey Tool request. Describe additional data collection strategies which may be used to achieve, at minimum, seventy-five percent (75%) response rate to the Survey Tool. Inform the Department of response rates and barriers throughout Phase One (1). Collect Survey Tools from the Child Care Providers: Study 1 shall be collected by September 1, 2020; and Study 2 shall be collected by September 1, 2023. Phase Two (2): Survey Tool Analysis and Market Rate Report Complete a full analysis of the collected Survey Tools to culminate into a final report. Submit a draft of the final report to the Department: Study 1 submitted by November 1, 2020; and Study 2 submitted by November 1, 2023. Ensure the final report includes, at a minimum: The results of the Survey Tools and Narrow Cost Analysis; The percentages of Child Care Providers whose rates are at, or below, the current Market Rate; Percentages shall include State and county calculations for the fiftieth (50th), seventy-fifth (75th), and ninetieth (90th) percentiles. Market Rates and costs of Child Care Services in each of Maine’s sixteen (16) counties, using subgroups of: Age groups; Daily and weekly use; Part-Time and full-time use; and Child Care Provider type. Number of Child Care Service Providers’ participation in: Child Care Subsidy Program; Transitional Child Care; and TANF/ASPIRE Child Care. Barriers to participation in the Child Care Subsidy Program; Generally accepted Child Care Provider payment practices, including: Child Care registration and other fees charged to parents; Rates charged during the child’s absence; and Charging parents above the Child Care Subsidy Program parent copayment, including size and frequency of payment totals.