Pre-Solicitation Homeless Data Integration System

The Vendor is required to provide homeless management information system (HMIS) data received from various programs throughout the state and consolidates and aggregates that data into one comprehensive reporting system.
- The homeless data integration system (HDIS) provides the state with an unduplicated count of people accessing services while experiencing homelessness in state, and allows the state to gain insights into the characteristics of people accessing services and the patterns of services access.
- The HDIS currently receives data from the forty-four (44) regionally-based state continuums of care that coordinate housing and services for homeless individuals in specific geographic areas and enter in data through forty-four separate HMIS modules.
- Requirement:
•    The data within HDIS is crucial for gaining insights into characteristics and identifying patterns of services accessed by people experiencing homelessness.
•    The HDIS was launched in June 2021 and contains vital data dating back to 2017. 
•    The data in HDIS is utilized to inform the state response to the homelessness crisis and is vital for providing transparency and accountability of measuring outcomes related to legislative mandates, public records act (PRA) requests, and data transfers to council member departments.
•    The HDIS contains both PII and non-PII information and agency has established a governance process and data use agreements to protect and safeguard this information.