TITLE
Recommendation to adopt Specifications RFP No. HR13-001 and award contracts to ACCORD Community First, Centro CHA, Inc., Conservation Corps of Long Beach, Long Beach Community Action Partnership, all Long Beach-based businesses (Local; not an MBE, WBE or SBE), and UAW Labor Employment and Training Corporation, of Cerritos, CA (not a Local, MBE, WBE, or SBE), for providing qualified service providers to operate Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Act Youth Academy Projects, in an annual combined amount not to exceed $1,162,953, for a period of two years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network (Pacific Gateway) operates the Youth Opportunity Center to facilitate assistance with education completion, access to career and technical education and training, participation in internships, and other work-based experiences. To maximize outreach in the communities covered by Pacific Gateway and to deliver many of the above services prescribed by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Pacific Gateway contracts with qualified education- and community-based organizations to deliver many of these intensive academic and vocational training program elements.
Under the guidance of the Workforce Investment Board and its Youth Council, Pacific Gateway, in coordination with the Purchasing Division, released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify projects and service providers focused on projects to serve in-school and out-of-school youth who are economically disadvantaged and possess various barriers to completing an educational program or securing and retaining employment. Project proposals required:
§ Collaborative partnerships with education, business, labor, social services, and community-based organizations;
§ Academic achievement and improvement, especially for youth who are deficient in basic skills or in need of returning to school;
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