Deadline: 9 June 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for state, local, and tribal governments to enhance or implement outcomes-based contracts with reentry, permanent supportive housing, or recovery housing providers to reduce recidivism, and address the substance use disorders impacting formerly incarcerated people.
The overall goal of the FY 2020 Second Chance Act Pay For Success Initiative: Outcomes-based Contracting To Lower Recidivism And Address Substance Use Disorders Through Recovery Housing (SCA OBC) is to assist local, state, and tribal governments in converting reentry service contracts into outcomes-based contracts in order to ensure accountability and improve performance with regard to recidivism reduction. This program will provide assistance and funding to state, local, and tribal governments to price, write, negotiate, fund, and manage contracts that pay for these services in a way that ensures accountability of the contract service providers, and incentivizes improved performance over time.
Objectives and Deliverables
Category 1: Enhancing Outcomes-based Contracting for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) or Reentry Services
- Objectives:
- Enhance already established outcomes-based contracts to provide individualized reentry services or PSH for people leaving incarceration who are identified through a validated risk tool as being at moderate to high risk to reoffend in the community.
- Manage the outcomes-based reentry service or PSH contract, including data and report collection, regular performance and outcome reviews between the governments and service provider, on and off-site monitoring, outcomes validation, and incentive payment approvals.
- Ensure government staff and service providers have adequate training on SCA OBC procurement, reentry services, PSH, data collection, and outcomes validation.
- Deliverables:
- Analysis that demonstrates reentry service or PSH need and data indicating the number and needs of people to be served. Describe the mechanisms to ensure the intended size and target population are identified and provided with contracted services.
- Analysis that demonstrates the outcomes selected for payment. Contracts must include recidivism outcomes (rearrest, reconviction, reincarceration, revocation) and can also include time for reoffense and reduction in severity of offense.
- Analysis that demonstrates the grantee’s decision about the outcomes-based contract structure (e.g., phased approach over the period of the contract, inclusion of a holdharmless period, etc.), repayment strategy (e.g., unit of outcome achieved, weighted incentives, percent change in outcomes, tiered payment scheduled, bonus payments), and timing of payments.
- Revised contract term report.
- Close-out report, including outcomes achieved and payments made.
Category 2: Outcomes-based Contracting to Provide Recovery Housing
- Objectives:
- Enter into outcomes-based contracts to provide evidence-based, high quality recovery housing to formerly incarcerated individuals who have a substance use disorder.
- Manage the outcomes-based recovery housing contract, including data and report collection, regular metric and outcome reviews between governments and service providers, on- and off-site monitoring, outcomes validation, and incentive payment approvals.
- Ensure government staff and service providers have adequate training on SCA OBC procurement, recovery housing, data collection, and outcomes validation.
- Deliverables:
- Analysis that demonstrates recovery housing need and provision of services to the target population, including the following data: (1) jail and or prison (booking and release dates, charging information, and unit/bed type) and (2) substance use disorder diagnosis, treatment, and menu of services.
- Analysis that demonstrates the outcomes selected for payment. Contracts must include appropriate functional outcomes, relevant system savings, and recidivism outcomes including jail bookings, length of stay, and charging information.
- Analysis that demonstrates the grantee’s decision about the outcomes-based contract structure (e.g., phased approach over the period of the contract, inclusion of a holdharmless period, etc.), repayment strategy (e.g., unit of outcome achieved, weighted incentives, percent change in outcomes, tiered payment scheduled, bonus payments), and timing of payments.
- First-year-of-contract term report.
- Close-out report, including outcomes achieved and payments made.
Funding Information
- Category 1
- Maximum number of awards BJA expects to make: 1
- Estimated maximum dollar amount for each award: up to $1,500,000
- Total amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation: $1,500,000
- Period of performance start date: October 1, 2020
- Period of performance duration: 54 months
- Category 2
- Maximum number of awards BJA expects to make: 2
- Estimated maximum dollar amount for each award: up to $2,500,000
- Total amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation: $4,900,000
- Period of performance start date: October 1, 2020
- Period of performance duration: 54 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- Special district governments
- State governments
- City or township governments
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325305