On January 5, 2016, Local Law 2 of 2016 (“the Law”) was enacted. The Law empowers the Mayor of the City of New York to authorize a program to reimburse qualifying nonpublic schools (“schools”) for the cost of procuring certain security services (“the Program”). By letter dated March 10, 2016, the Mayor designated the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (“DCAS”) as the Law’s administering agency. In order to participate in the Program during the 2024-2025 school year, as a new participant, qualifying nonpublic schools (“schools”) must first complete and submit the HHS Accelerator Prequalification in PASSPort, the City’s digital Procurement and Sourcing Solution Portal. Then approved schools will be eligible to complete a School Qualification Application (“the Application”) in the PASSPort system. The Law defines a qualifying nonpublic school as any nonprofit elementary or secondary school in the City of New York, other than a public school, that provides instruction in accordance with the New York State Education Law, has been assigned a Basic Educational Data System (BEDS) code by the New York State Education Department (“NYSED”), and is serving students in any combination of grades pre-kindergarten through twelve [i]. To participate in the Program, a qualifying nonpublic school must also enroll at least 300 students, as confirmed by a school’s BEDS form to be submitted to NYSED on October 2, 2024. For schools with multiple locations and individual BEDS codes for each location, the number of enrolled students for each individual location cannot be aggregated to meet the 300-student minimum requirement. DCAS will verify each school’s enrollment information by referring to the documents submitted by the school to the New York State Education Department at any point deemed appropriate throughout the program year. If at any time the school’s enrollment fails to meet the 300-student threshold, then the school will be disqualified from the program.