Report To The Utah Legislature - A Performance Audit Of The Division Of Housing And Community Development - 2012 Page 26
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33Two RFPs Were Issued to
Ensure Fairness
Part of the concern expressed with the awarding of the NSP1
money was HCD’s selected RFP process. Within three months of the
NSP1 monies being signed into law, HCD held a public hearing to
determine what should be done with the funds. Six months later, the
Two separate RFPs
awarded the NSP1
first RFP was issued, requesting nonprofits to submit plans for how
contract to the same
best to use the funds, with emphasis on leveraging the funds to create
nonprofit.
more money. Figure 3.1 shows the timeframe of the process, with the
NSP1 monies being awarded almost a year after the deadline for
submission of proposals.
Figure 3.1 Two RFPs Were Issued for the NSP1 Money. Both awards
were made to the same nonprofit agency.
Source: Office of Legislative Auditor General Analysis
The first RFP was awarded to Utah Center for Affordable
Housing (UCAH), a nonprofit new to Utah’s low-income housing
industry. Because of UCAH’s relatively new status, as well as the fact
that BidSync (an online program) was used by HCD for the first time,
there was some outcry among established nonprofit organizations.
This outcry caused the Department of Community and Culture
(DCC) director to require that the RFP be reissued to ensure fairness.
UCAH was again awarded the contract, based in part on the
administrative costs being donated by a private company. We found
The federal
that both of the RFP processes were conducted according to state
government
suspended some
statute.
notification
requirements to
expedite the use of the
The state was not required by the federal government to issue any
money.
sort of RFP. In fact, the federal government had reduced some of the
A Performance Audit of the Division of Housing and Community Development (February 2012)
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