The Procurement Record

DYCD awarded first and planned school fit later.

Under DYCD's own published rules, a six-year afterschool award could be made before the provider had hired or retained its site staff, without a support letter from the host school, and before the required School Partnership Agreement was created. This page lays out the public rubric, the six-year term, and the post-award requirements families assumed had already happened.

This is not a quality judgment. Nothing on this page says any awarded provider is unqualified. The point is narrower: the award itself did not guarantee the people, the relationships, the host-school support, or the detailed transition plan families were relying on. The procurement record makes that explicit.

The 100-point public scoring rubric

From DYCD's public RFP slide deck. The figures below sum to 100. The public deck does not show a separate numerical line item for principal ranking or for "provider diversity." Where and how those were applied is one of the open questions on this page.

Points	Category
21	Organizational experience and capability
40	Service requirements and outcomes
20	Staffing
8	Community partnerships
6	Agency-wide approaches
5	Budget
100	Total

What was not required before award

No named site staff. DYCD's FAQ states applicants were not expected to have hired or retained the actual staff who would work at each school before award. Resumes were not accepted in place of job descriptions.
No host-school support letter. Letters from the host school were not accepted as part of proposals.
No School Partnership Agreement. The School Partnership Agreement is listed as a post-award requirement, created after the award is made.
One budget narrative per multi-school competition. For multi-school competitions, applicants submitted a single budget narrative for the largest proposed slot count — not a separate detailed budget narrative for every school in the competition.

The six-year term

The proposed contract term is August 1, 2026 through August 31, 2032, with no renewal option. The published award list also states each award remains subject to contract negotiation, responsibility determination, and Comptroller registration.

"Selected for award" is not the same as "registered contract." The status ladder below is what each award has to clear before children are actually in the program.

01
Selected for award
Appears on the May 8 award list.
02
Contract negotiated
Scope, budget, and workscope finalized between DYCD and the awardee.
03
Responsibility determination complete
DYCD has confirmed the awardee is capable of performing under PPB rules.
04
Submitted to Comptroller for registration
BCA has 30 days to register, return, or object.
05
Registered
Contract is legally in effect; visible in Checkbook NYC / PASSPort.
06
Implementation begun
Children are actually in the program.

Per-site registration status has not been independently confirmed and is intentionally not displayed elsewhere on this site until a Checkbook NYC or PASSPort record is on file.

Minimum compliance is not continuity

For SONYC middle-school programs, the public minimums are:

540 operating hours per year
Weekly social-emotional learning
90 minutes of physical activity per week
72 hours of STEAM and literacy per year
15 hours of college/career and life-skills programming
8 hours of leadership development
75% rate-of-participation attendance target

Ninety minutes of physical activity per week is not a three-season sports league. A required content area is not a musical, debate team, or community ecosystem. A required content area is a floor, not a guarantee of the specific programs a school has built.

The unanswered scoring questions

Attachment 02 — "Basis for Contract Award and Evaluation Procedures" — may explain how additional considerations were used. Until it is released, the public cannot verify any of the following:

Where principal preference was weighted, if at all.
Where "provider diversity" was defined, and how concentration was measured (one provider received roughly 80 awards).
Whether those factors were scored, used as tie-breakers, or applied after technical scoring.
What written record explains each override of a principal's first-ranked provider.

See the 26-document records request for the full list of documents that would close these questions, and Consultation vs. Selection for what families could and could not influence.