RFP Guidelines

In this post I want to go over the guidelines that I follow when reviewing and reading the various proposals for the Ryan White Foundation. The first aspect I consider is the scope and purpose of the proposal at hand. The purpose of the Ryan White Foundation's request for proposals (RFP) is to solicit subcontractors to provide services to people with HIV who fall within the income eligibility guidelines in the Northwest Region of Virginia.

These eligibility guidelines are as follows, eligible applicants are any agency or organization, government, or entities that provide direct services to people with HIV/AIDS. Eligible consumers must reside in Virginia and are HIV positive individuals, whose documented gross income is 300% or less than the Federal poverty level, who are without health insurance, whose health insurance does not cover the service, and/or whose health insurance has co-payments for covered services. This is a rather hard sort of issue to sift through and find if not stated directly, so I often find it trouble some to review this basic guideline.

I find that most often when trying to follow these guidelines I am often "over my head" in information and am not contributing to the review quite the same aspects other people are contributing because of my lack of background knowledge. I will meet with Gary later to discuss this before moving on with the other reviews of the proposals.