What DYCD must release.
Until these documents are public, DYCD — not parents — owns the incomplete citywide picture of the 2026 afterschool rebid.
What the public record currently supports: 25 school sites where a recent incumbent can be matched to a 2026 nonrenewal or replacement, and 12 of those with explicit public opposition. See the school tracker.
The list below is what would be needed to certify the picture citywide. Until DYCD releases it, every parent claim is a floor, not a ceiling.
File the official transparency / FOIL request to DYCD now — pre-written, opens in your own email, CCs Comptroller and Council oversight chairs.
Send the FOIL letter- 01
Complete incumbent-to-awardee crosswalk, school by school
Not releasedWithout this, no one outside DYCD can confirm who was displaced where. Every other claim depends on it.
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Principal ranking forms for every COMPASS/SONYC site
Not releasedPrincipals were permitted to express preferences. DYCD has not shown which schools ranked the incumbent first.
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School-by-school override memos or award-justification records
Not releasedWhen the awardee differs from the principal's ranking, the public record needs the written rationale.
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Incumbent and awardee evaluation scores by category
Not releasedPPB rules require competitive scoring. Categories, weights, and totals must be publicly inspectable.
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The precise definition, weight, and application of 'provider diversity'
Not releasedDYCD's defense relied on this concept. The public has not seen how it was operationalized.
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Every vendor protest, debrief request, decision, and appeal
Not releasedProcurement integrity is verifiable only when challenge outcomes are public.
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Old and new seat allocations and per-site funding amounts
Not releasedContinuity of service depends on whether seats and dollars actually transfer.
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Licensing and registration status of each 2026 awardee
Not releasedSome awardees are smaller orgs. Capacity to run a city-funded program at scale must be documented before September.
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Staff-retention and transition plans, by site
Not releasedAdult continuity is the difference between a program and a placeholder. Families need named transition leads.
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School-partnership agreements between awardees and principals
Not releasedDOE and DYCD share these buildings. Written agreements show whether the school actually consented.
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Disability-access plans for IEP/504 students at every site
Not releasedAccess is a federal civil-rights obligation, not an add-on. Plans must exist before transition, not after a complaint.
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Parent-communication and late-pickup plans for the August/September transition
Not releasedWorking families need notice in writing, in their language, before the first day.
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Full RFP scoring rubric and the final scoring decisions for every applicant
Not releasedA six-year, hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars award cannot be audited from a press statement.
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Evaluator qualifications and panel-selection procedure
Not releasedWho scored these proposals, what youth-development or school experience they had, and how DYCD chose them.
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Evaluator training, written instructions, and conflict-of-interest disclosures
Not releasedIncluding how reviewers were told to treat prior site-specific performance and whether incumbent experience was treated as bias.
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Inter-rater reliability / scoring-variance analysis
Not releasedWere substantially similar proposals scored differently by different readers? Without variance analysis, the rubric is unverifiable.
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Site-level parent/provider survey instruments, response counts, and how results were scored
Not releasedIf parent or provider feedback shaped scoring, the public needs the instrument, the response rate, and the scoring methodology.
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RFP / contract language on subcontracting (reported ~30% cap)
Not releasedIf awardees may subcontract a large share of programming, the public needs to see the rule and ask why a functioning integrated provider was removed at all.
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Attachment 02 — Basis for Contract Award and Evaluation Procedures
Not releasedThis is the document that may explain how principal preference and provider diversity were actually used. The public deck does not show those as scored line items.
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Attachment 05 — Eligible Schools
Not releasedThe list of schools each provider was eligible to apply for. Without it, the public cannot reconstruct who could have competed for each site.
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Attachment 06 — Funding by Competition
Not releasedPer-competition funding lines that explain how slots and dollars were allocated before negotiation. This is the document that would settle prior/new slot disputes site by site.
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Register of Proposals (open for public inspection after award per PPB rules)
Not releasedPPB rules require this register be available for public inspection after award. The public has not been given it.
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Approval and procedures for any randomized evaluator pool, plus proposal-to-evaluator assignment records
Not releasedPPB rules permit randomized assignment for high-volume evaluations but require documented approval and a record of who scored what.
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Signed and dated original and amended rating sheets for every proposal
Not releasedPPB rules require preservation of signed/dated rating sheets, original and amended. These are the underlying scoring documents.
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Technical-score summaries by proposal and competition
Not releasedAggregate technical scores per competition allow side-by-side comparison of how the same provider was scored at different sites.
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School-CBO Partnership Profile answers
Not releasedThe proposal section where applicants described their relationship with each school. Critical for understanding what providers represented about school fit.
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Recommendation for Award records for each contested site
Not releasedShould contain the procurement method, the award basis, and a summary of the procurement record. Required by PPB rules.
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Price and cost comparisons across competing proposals
Not releasedCost was 5 points of the rubric; without the price comparison there is no way to verify how it was applied.
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Prior-performance assessments and audits considered for incumbents
Not releasedAttendance rates, audit findings, and prior-performance assessments that DYCD weighed (or did not weigh) for displaced incumbents.
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Vendor responsibility determinations for each awardee
Not releasedPPB requires a responsibility determination before award. The determinations and any associated documentation should be on file.
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Final workscope and budget for each individual school award
Not releasedMulti-school competitions submitted only one budget narrative. Per-school final workscopes are where actual programming and dollars are nailed down.
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Records identifying the 12 schools with no awarded provider, their interim status, and licensing/contingency plans
Not releasedDYCD acknowledged 12 schools still had no awarded provider. The public should know which 12, what is planned, and what happens if licensing is not complete by fall.
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Contract-registration packages and registration status per award (Checkbook NYC / PASSPort)
Not releasedSelected for award is not registered. Until each award has a registration record on file, the public cannot tell which contracts are actually in effect.
Help us request these.
Send the official transparency letter — it asks DYCD for the first set of these documents and CCs the Comptroller and Council oversight chairs.
