Specifications include, but are not limited to: provide management oversight for the District’s Continuum of Care for homeless services and a network of subcontractors/service providers responsible for delivering core services to over 5,000 individuals who seek homeless services in the District each year. These services include but are not limited to operational services, low-barrier shelters, temporary shelters, hypothermia & hyperthermia shelters, transitional housing, housing-focused case management services (within shelters and for Rapid Rehousing- Families), food services, security services, janitorial services, move services, furniture purchases, and complaint response/monitoring for homeless individuals and families in the District. The Prime Contractor shall serve as a lead entity in collaboration with DHS, the District of Columbia Interagency Council on Homelessness, and other community stakeholders to end chronic homelessness in the District by Fiscal Year 2025. The District aims to have a systematic response to prevent homelessness whenever possible, or if it occurs, to be brief and non-recurring.
