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FAMILY SURVEY RFP
First 5 LA is issuing this Request for Proposals to qualified groups interested in conducting a semi-annual survey of families in the fourteen Best Start communities. The selected applicant will have extensive expertise with survey administration methodologies, particularly in culturally diverse communities.

FIRST 5 LA ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK
The First 5 LA FY 09-15 Strategic Plan includes an innovative blend of place-based and county-wide funding strategies designed to improve outcomes in four goal areas, including: babies are born healthy, children maintain a healthy weight, children are safe from abuse and neglect, and children are ready for kindergarten. The Commission's decision to move to a "place-based" funding approach, as opposed to initiative-based funding, is an effort to focus more intentionally on impacting the well-being of families and children by improving the communities in which they live. Thus, our FY 2009-2015 Accountability and Learning framework reflects this emphasis on place-based evaluation as well as a strengthened emphasis on using results from our evaluations and research projects to learn and improve on an ongoing basis.

The goals of First 5 LA's Accountability and Learning Framework for the FY 09-15 Strategic Plan include the following:
  • Gather and disseminate timely information on implementation and outcomes to support and improve our work and the work of our grantees;
  • Capture change over time in Best Start communities;
  • Enable us to "tell a coherent story" of our investments to our stakeholders - most notably First 5 LA Commissioners and staff, our community partners and grantees and other external stakeholders.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
This project, which will be ongoing through the remaining five years of the First 5 LA strategic plan, involves survey data collection in the fourteen First 5 LA Best Start communities. First 5 LA will conduct data collection in Best Start communities in order to examine changes occurring related to our four priority measures. Data on these intermediate outcomes will be collected twice a year among a random sample of parents with young children (ages 0-5) via the Family Survey in each of First 5 LA's fourteen Best Start communities, and the data will be disseminated via the Community Change Dashboard, as well as research briefs, presentations, and other products. First 5 LA plans to leverage existing research partnerships with organizations currently collecting county wide data on the same set of indicators in order to compare community level change with county wide change.

The research questions that First 5 LA hopes to answer with data collected during the course of this project include the following:
  • How do the families within each of our Best Start communities change over time?
  • Are there any trends in risk and protective factors within and/or across communities?
Please note that the term of the contract issued under this RFP will be one year. If additional work supporting the Family Survey is required during or after the specified period of performance, First 5 LA reserves the sole right to either extend this contract or issue a separate RFP to solicit another contractor.

Please see the full Family Survey RFP and associated materials for more information.

INFORMATION SESSION
An information session for interested bidders will be held on August 11, 2010 at First 5 LA headquarters in Los Angeles. Participation in the information session is highly recommended but is not required in order to apply for this opportunity. To RSVP, please contact hcampbell@first5la.org no later than Friday, August 6, 2010. For a list of frequently asked questions please click here.

HOW TO APPLY
To be eligible for consideration, applicants must first submit a MANDATORY Intent to Apply Form by 5:00 p.m. on August 18, 2010. The intent to apply form is listed under important documents.

Subsequent to the successful submission of the Intent to Apply form, applicants are requested to submit a complete application online to First 5 LA no later than 5:00 P. M. on September 10, 2010. No hard copy submissions will be accepted. For online application and instructions, please click here.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS 

CONTACT US
For additional information or further questions regarding this RFP, please contact Holly Campbell, Research Analyst, at hcampbell@first5la.org. To ensure that all potential applicants receive the same information, questions and answers will be compiled on a weekly basis and will be emailed to all applicants who submit the mandatory Intent to Apply form.