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7 AAC 53.910. Accounting procedures. Repealed 1/13/85. Publisher’s note: When repealed, this section was numbered 7 AAC 50.910. 7 AAC 53.911. Evaluation of proposals and award of grants. (a) To award a residential child care facility grant, the department will determine whether the proponent is a responsible bidder; will determine whether the proposal meets the minimum standards for proposals; and will award the grant. (b) The department will, in its discretion, cancel a request for proposals in its entirety, or for specified communities and geographic planning areas, at any time, if

(1) the legislature does not appropriate grant money at the level that the department had planned; or

(2) the department, in its discretion, finds that circumstances exist that cause cancellation of the request for proposals or portions of the request for proposals to be in the state’s best interests. (c) The department will, in its discretion, reject a proposal if it determines that

(1) the proponent has made a material misrepresentation in the proposal;

(2) the proponent’s past record of performance of other grants or contracts is so poor that the proponent’s proper performance of the terms of its proposal is doubtful;

(3) the proponent appears to be financially incapable of performing the terms of its proposal;

(4) the proponent or the proposal do not meet the minimum standards stated in the request for proposals; or

(5) the proponent has not complied with the instructions for preparing a grant proposal given in the request for proposals. (d) To determine whether a proposal meets the minimum standards set in the request for proposals, the department will first rate the proposal by each criterion of evaluation stated in the request for proposals. The department will reject a proposal if the department’s rating of the