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Okanogan County discusses RFP selection committee membership, scoring and logistics
Summary
County staff and prospective committee members discussed a proposed 5–7 person RFP selection panel, scoring criteria borrowed from a neighboring county, concerns about Zoom security and public-meeting rules, and payment/budget questions for a roughly $300,000 RFP pool.
Okanogan County staff and prospective selection-panel members met virtually to discuss membership, scoring and logistical steps for an upcoming request-for-proposals process to award funds for prevention and recovery services.
Participants said the selection committee should be a “robust” group of community members, generally proposing five to seven scorers, and the group discussed conflict-of-interest limits, how proposals will be scored, whether scoring and deliberations will be remote or in-person, and how payment and budgeting for awards would be handled.
The meeting opened with a staff overview that the county had met previously with the commissioners to define the RFP selection process and that Melissa had requested to serve on the RFP selection committee. Staff described a scoring template “borrowed from Caroline” and adapted for local use that allocates points across scoring categories; committee members will rate each proposal against those criteria and submit scores to staff for tallying. Participants…
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