The department shall develop an annual calendar identifying target dates for contract application deadlines, contract award announcements, contract approvals, and contract evaluations. Each calendar shall be available to the public and shall be updated at least annually.

The department shall develop and maintain a central distribution list for application announcements.

Application announcements shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information: the goals and objectives of the program, identification of the specific minimum range of services to be purchased related to those goals, quantitative as well as qualitative measures that will be used by the department to evaluate service outcomes, specific criteria and a description of the methodology and timetable

that will be followed to review and approve applications, and all minimum performance standards any agency is required to meet prior to contract approval.

The department shall identify and transmit to all agencies awarded contracts forms required for contract payments, management information or reports required pursuant to contract objectives, and conditions and methods for contract evaluations. Methods and conditions for payment recoveries,

withholding of payments, and contract terminations relating to nonperformance shall also be identified. This information shall be provided in all cases prior to final approval of any

contract, unless the information is provided in the contract document.

The department shall develop a grievance procedure for resolving disputes arising from the awarding or administering of contracts, in addition to the remedies provided under the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the

Government Code).

review as may be necessary to provide timely service while preserving audit and oversight functions to protect the public welfare.

submission, unless unresolved conflicts remain between the Department of Finance, the department, and the Department of General Services. The department shall resolve conflicts within an additional 30 working day time period. Contracts and funding terms and conditions shall be issued to contractors no later than June 1. Applications for new preschool funding shall be issued not more than 45 working days after the effective date of authorized new allocations of preschool moneys.

is required to adhere, including those changes to terms or conditions that authorize higher reimbursement rates, modify related adjustment factors, modify administrative or other service allowances, or diminish fee revenues otherwise available for services, to determine if the change is necessary or has the potential effect of reducing the number of full-time equivalent children that may be served.

its completion, provided it receives the approval of the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance shall review the changes within 30 working days of submission and the department shall resolve conflicts within an additional 30 working day period. Contractors shall be given adequate notice before the effective date of the approved schedules. It is the intent of the Legislature that contracts for services not be delayed by the timing of the availability of accurate data needed to update these schedules.

The department may execute a multiyear application process. Multiyear applications may only be submitted by public and private agencies that have been fully compliant in executing prior contracts for at least the preceding three fiscal years as evidenced by all of the following:

ineligible for the streamlined request for application process:

a position of fiscal responsibility or control who has been convicted of a crime involving misuse or misappropriation of state or federal funds or a state or federal crime involving moral turpitude.

17825 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations.