COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO - File #: 22-127

• File #: 22-127
• Version: 1
• Type: Health and Human Services
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 3/4/2022
• In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
• On agenda: 3/15/2022
• Title: AUTHORIZE COMPETITIVE SOLICITATION FOR NUTRITION SERVICES (DISTRICTS: ALL)

Date	Action By	Action	Result
3/15/2022	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS	took action as recommended, on Consent	Pass

DATE:
March 15, 2022
03

TO:
Board of Supervisors

SUBJECT
Title
AUTHORIZE COMPETITIVE SOLICITATION FOR NUTRITION SERVICES (DISTRICTS: ALL)

Body
OVERVIEW
The County of San Diego (County) Health and Human Services Agency, Aging & Independence Services (AIS) provides a variety of programs serving seniors and persons with disabilities. AIS serves as the region's federally designated Area Agency on Aging, which provides specific services, including senior nutrition services, funded by the Older Americans Act. The State of California requires the County to submit a four-year Area Plan to the California Department of Aging to receive Older Americans Act funds. Senior nutrition services support the goals and objectives established in AIS' 2020-2024 Area Plan which was approved by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors (Board) on July 7, 2020 (7).

AIS contracts with local service providers throughout San Diego County to provide free and nutritionally-sound meals. These home-delivered, congregate, and take-home meals are critical to ensure access to healthy, nutritious food, to improve senior food security, and to reduce risk of chronic diseases and isolation. The fourteen existing contracts for nutrition services were awarded through a competitive solicitation authorized by the Board on October 10, 2017 (5) and are scheduled to end on June 30, 2023. Existing contracts serve approximately 1.2 million meals to 6,000 individuals throughout San Diego County annually. In order to continue these critical services, today's action requests the Board to authorize competitive solicitations for senior nutrition services.

This item supports the County's vision of a just, sustainable, and resilient future for all, specifically those communities and populations in San Diego County that are most vulnerable, as well as our ongoing commitment to the regional Live Well San Diego vision of healthy, safe and thriving communities. This will be accomplished by ensuring access...