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proposal by any criterion is lower than the minimum rating for that criterion that the department stated in the request for proposals. If the department has set a minimum overall score in its request for proposals, the department will determine the proposal’s overall score and reject the proposal if the proposal’s overall rating does not equal or exceed that minimum score. To determine the overall score of a proposal the department will multiply the department’s rating of the proposal by each criterion times the value assigned to the criterion in the request for proposals and add together all of the products of this multiplication. (e) The department will choose among competing grant proposals as follows:

(1) if, in the request for proposals, the department has assigned a maximum dollar amount for a designated project, the department will approve the proposal of the proponent that offers to provide beds at the lowest dollar amount per bed;

(2) if, in the request for proposals, the department has assigned a maximum dollar amount for all grant projects in a designated area, the department will

(A) for each grant project, consider only the proponent that offers to provide beds at the lowest dollar amount per bed; and

(B) allocate the designated maximum amount by approving proposals in the manner that, in its discretion, the department finds will provide the most beds in a specified community or area for the stated maximum dollar amount.

(3) if two or more competing proponents offer to provide beds at the same rate per bed, the department will consider the proposal with the highest overall score by all evaluation criteria. (f) In its discretion, the department will allow a proponent to amend a rejected proposal if no other proponent submits an acceptable proposal for the grant project. If more than one proponent submitted an unacceptable proposal for the grant project, the department will allow only one proponent to amend its proposal. The department will give rejected proponents the opportunity to amend proposals in the order of the overall scores of their proposals by all evaluation criteria. (Eff. 1/13/85, Register 93) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.40.011

AS 47.05.015 AS 47.40.041 7 AAC 53.915. Alternate procedure for requesting and evaluating proposals.