Department of Human Services

In The Matter Of:
PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE
CSEA Access and Visitation Program for Western Maryland
CSEA/AV/16-002-S
January 6, 2016
REQUEST FOR GRANT PROPOSALS
COURT REPORTERS, ETCetera, INC.
"We'll cover your job ANYWHERE in the country!"
2833 Smith Avenue, #260
Baltimore, Maryland 21209
(410) 653-1115 1-800-947-DEPO (202) 628-DEPO (3376)
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COURT REPORTERS, ETCetera, INC.
"We'll cover your job ANYWHERE in the country!"CSEA/AV/16-002-S - January 6, 2016
REQUEST FOR GRANT PROPOSALS1
1 PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE

2

3 REQUEST FOR GRANT PROPOSALS

4 CSEA Access and Visitation Program

5 for Western Maryland

6 CSEA/AV/16-002-S

7 * * * *

8 Wednesday, January 6, 2016

9 10:00 a.m.

10 * * * * *

11 Held at:

12 State of Maryland

13 Department of Human Resources

14 311 West Saratoga Street, Room 104

15 Baltimore, Maryland

16 * * * * *

17 COURT REPORTERS, ETCetera, INC.

18 Maryland Washington

19 (410) 653-1115 (202) 628-DEPO

20 "We'll cover your job ANYWHERE in the country!"

21 1-800-947-DEPO

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1 IN ATTENDANCE

2
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES:
3
SANG KANG, Procurement Officer
4 TYWANNA TAYLOR, Director for Special Projects
VASHTI GREEN, Director for Grants & Contracts
5 RONALD NIX, CSEA Program Manager
DAPHNE McCRAY, Procurement
6 DEBORAH AUSTIN, Procurement
WAYNE DIXON, Procurement
7 BERNICE JEFFRIES, Procurement

8
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL:
9
HUBERT CHANG
10

11 CARROLL COUNTY GOVERNMENT:

12 DEBBY STANDIFORD

13
CIRCUIT COURT FOR CARROLL COUNTY:
14
POWEL WELLIVER
15

16 MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION:

17 ANNE SOULE
BARBARA MAY
18

19

20 -oOo-

21

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1 A-G-E-N-D-A

2 ITEM: PAGE:

3 I. Welcome and Introductions
Sang Kang 4
4

5 II. Opening Remarks
Tywanna Taylor
6

7 III. Review of Request for Grant Proposals

8 Section I-General Information
Sang Kang
9
Section II - Applicant Min. Qualifications
10 Sang Kang

11 Section III - Scope of Work
Tywanna Taylor
12
Section IV - Proposal Format
13 Sang Kang

14 Section V - Evaluation Criteria & Selection
Sang Kang
15

16 Questions

17
Closing Comments
18

19

20

21

COURT REPORTERS, ETCetera, INC.
"We'll cover your job ANYWHERE in the country!"CSEA/AV/16-002-S - January 6, 2016
REQUEST FOR GRANT PROPOSALS4

1 PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE

2 (10:00 a.m.)

3 Welcome and Introductions

4 SANG KANG: Good morning. My name is

5 Sang Kang, and I'd like to welcome you to the

6 Department of Human Resources. And we'll be

7 talking about the Request for Grant Proposals

8 entitled CSEA Access and Visitation Programs --

9 or actually CSEA Access and Visitation Program

10 for Western Maryland. And I think everyone's

11 signed in.

12 Court Reporters will be transcribing

13 this event, so when you ask questions, please

14 state your name and your organization or your

15 company for the record, and a transcript of this

16 conference will be made available to you on the

17 website a few days later.

18 So can we begin with introductions.

19 Let's just go around the room. Everyone can say

20 their name and their organization.

21 I'm Sang Kang, I'm the Procurement

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1 Officer at DHR.

2 TYWANNA TAYLOR: Tywanna Taylor, I am

3 the Director for Special Projects that oversees

4 the Grants Unit for CSEA.

5 POWEL WELLIVER: I am Powel Welliver,

6 I'm from the Circuit Court for Carroll County.

7 DEBBY STANDIFORD: I'm Debby

8 Standiford, Carroll County Government.

9 ANNE SOULE: Anne Soule, Mental Health

10 Association.

11 BARBARA MAY: Barbara May from the

12 Mental Health Association in Frederick.

13 RONALD NIX: Ron Nix, CSEA Program

14 Manager.

15 DAPHNE McCRAY: Daphne McCray,

16 Procurement.

17 DEBORAH AUSTIN: Debbie Austin,

18 Procurement.

19 WAYNE DIXON: Wayne Dixon,

20 Procurement.

21 BERNICE JEFFRIES: Bernice Jeffries

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1 with Procurement.

2 HUBERT CHANG: Hubert Chang from the

3 Office of Attorney General.

4 SANG KANG: Okay. And I think Tywanna

5 will make some opening remarks about the RFGP.

6 Opening Remarks

7 TYWANNA TAYLOR: I just want to say

8 welcome again and let you guys know that it's our

9 intentions, the CSEA's intentions to award an

10 applicant that's demonstrating high quality

11 programs in the western region for providing

12 Access and Visitation services. So we're hoping

13 this conference will be informative for you guys

14 and you get clarity for any questions that you

15 have. So feel free to share any questions or get

16 any clarity for anything you need.

17 SANG KANG: Okay. So the Department

18 of Human Resources, CSEA, intends to award a

19 grant to a Access and Visitation program located

20 in Western Maryland.

21 The Department intends to award one

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1 Grant as a result of this RFGP, and it's to a

2 program in the following counties: Alleghany,

3 Carroll, Frederick, Garrett and Washington

4 Counties.

5 And the Grant awarded will be for