Proposal Selection Criteria. In the event that funds requested exceed funds available, the following criteria will be used to determine the amount granted to a given municipality: • Municipalities with identified water supply issues in Master Water Supply Plan Community Profiles or Local Water Supply Plans • Municipalities’ ratio of peak monthly water use to winter monthly water use • Municipalities’ average residential per capita water use • The order in which applications are received and until grant funds are completely committed Funding Process and Reporting Requirements • Utilizing forms provided by Met Council, the following information must be reported on a quarterly basis: o Number, type and amount of rebates or grants provided to property owners, along with each property address o Estimated annual gallons of water saved per device installation o Municipality matching funds disbursed o Number of unmet funding requests from property owners, if any • Upon review and confirmation of the above information, Met Council will process a grant payment in the amount of 80% of approved total rebates or grants for the reporting period. • Met Council will provide confirmation of grant balances available upon request and reserves the right to amend grant agreements, in collaboration with grantee municipality, if quarterly reporting indicates rebate or grant programs will not fully utilize grant awards within the Grant Activity Period.
Proposal Selection Criteria. The Proposal Evaluation Team shall assign up to the maximum number of points for each Evaluation Item to each of the proposing vendor’s proposals. All assignments of points shall be at the sole discretion of the Proposal Evaluation Team. The proposals all contain the essential information on which the award decision shall be made. The information required to be submitted in response to this RFP has been determined by the State of Delaware to be essential for use by the Team in the bid evaluation and award process. Therefore, all instructions contained in this RFP shall be met in order to qualify as a responsive and responsible contractor and participate in the Proposal Evaluation Team’s consideration for award. Proposals which do not meet or comply with the instructions of this RFP may be considered non-conforming and deemed non-responsive and subject to disqualification at the sole discretion of the Team. The Team reserves the right to: • Select for contract or for negotiations a proposal other than that with lowest costs. • Reject any and all proposals or portions of proposals received in response to this RFP or to make no award or issue a new RFP. • Waive or modify any information, irregularity, or inconsistency in proposals received. • Request modification to proposals from any or all vendors during the contract review and negotiation. • Negotiate any aspect of the proposal with any vendor and negotiate with more than one vendor at the same time. • Select more than one vendor pursuant to 29 Del. C. §6986. The State reserves the right to reject any or all bids in whole or in part, to make multiple awards, partial awards, award by types, item by item, or lump sum total, whichever may be most advantageous to the State of Delaware.
