NYCEDC seeking team to perform functions of PMO

New York City Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC) is seeking a consultant or consultant team to perform the functions of a Program Management Office (PMO) to implement the Business Resiliency Investment Program, an initiative to provide funds to assist eligible business tenants and owners and to incentivize them to make certain improvements to enhance their resiliency to severe weather. Eligible resiliency measures may include protecting or elevating building systems, dry flood-proofing, wet flood-proofing, structurally reinforcing wood-framed buildings, creating business disaster preparedness plans, and elevating/flood-protecting business equipment and inventory and/or data systems. This program is one of the business recovery initiatives expectedto be funded through the Community-Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program, and is included in the City's CDBG-DR Action Plan, approved by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in May 2013 and subsequently amended. It is expected that the PMO services may include, without limitation: * application-based tasks, such as application intake, determining applicant and project eligibility (including site assessments, work write-ups and cost estimates), * sizing awards, disbursing funds, overseeing project work, and completing post project monitoring; and * performing supporting tasks, such as performance tracking and reporting, training, quality assurance, utilizing technology to support all key tasks, and fraud, waste and abuse detection prevention and detection. NYCEDC plans to select a consultant on the basis of factors stated in the RFP which are expected to include, but may not be limited to: the quality of the proposed approach, experience of key staff identified in the proposal, experience and quality of any subcontractors proposed, demonstrated successful experience in performing services similar to those encompassed in the RFP, and the proposed fee.