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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) ADDENDUM

Addendum No.: 1 Date of Addendum: February 20, 2025

Due Date, Time: May 20, 2025 at 4:00 pm Central Time

Title: Freight Switcher Locomotive Repower/Replacement Grant

SCOPE OF ADDENDUM

The RFP is revised as follows with strike through for deletions and underlining for insertions:

Revision 1 In the RFP, page 8, Section 9. Grantee responsibilities - Required financial and grantee capacity review is amended as follows:

Required financial and grantee capacity review Minn. Stat. §16B.981/Chapter 62 - MN Laws, Article 7, Section 11 requires that a pre-award risk assessment is conducted for grant awards of $50,000 or more.

All grantees as defined in Minn. Stat. §16B.981 Subd. 1 (c) applying for grants in the state of Minnesota must undergo a financial and capacity review prior to a grant award of $50,000 and higher.

In order to comply with this requirement, the following information and documents will need to be submitted before the grant contract agreement is fully executed (but do not submit them until you are contacted and requested to do so):

I. Capacity Responses: All potential grantees: Exhibit C

a) Please describe your history of performing the work that will be funded by the grant:

· This includes describing your organization’s current staffing and current budget.

II. Certification: No current principals have been convicted of a felony financial crime in the last ten years: All potential Grantees: Exhibit D III. Evidence of good standing: For-profit and nonprofit potential grantees: Exhibit E

· For-profit and nonprofit grantees: Filed and up-to-date with the Secretary of State IV. Nonprofit grantees as applicable: Exhibit F

· Most recent Form 990 or Form 990-EZ

· Most recent audited financial statement of a charitable organization which has received total revenue in excess of $750,000 for the 12 months of operations covered by the statement per Minn. Stat. §309.53

· Most recent board-reviewed (or managing group if applicable) financial statements, description of internal controls over business expenditures and outcomes of grant funds, if awarded, and evidence of exemption V. For-profit Certification Disclosure and required documents: Exhibit G

· Most recent federal and state tax returns:

· If not in business long enough to have a tax return, description of internal controls over business expenditures and outcomes of grant funds, if awarded

· Current financial statements

· Certification that business is not under bankruptcy proceedings

· Disclosure of any liens on assets The submission of inaccurate or misleading information may be grounds for disqualification from the grant contract agreement award and may subject an organization to suspension or debarment proceedings, as well as other remedies available to the State, by law.

Based on Minn. Stat. §16B.981/Chapter 62 - MN Laws, Article 7, Section 11, Subd. 3-5 establishes the authority for a granting agency to:

· Provide or require enhanced grant oversight

· Request additional information from a potential grantee to determine whether there is a substantial risk that the potential grantee cannot or would not perform the required duties of the grant agreement.

· The potential grantee has 30 business days to respond

· Develop a plan to address the risk or concerns identified

· Not award the grant.

· The granting agency must provide notice of this determination to not award the grant to the grantee and the Commissioner of Administration.

· The notice must include the following:

· The reason for postponing/not awarding the grant

· The timeline for the process for contesting the agency’s decision

Please note, only awarded applicants will be required to fill out the referenced forms

This addendum will become part of the Request for Proposal and must be submitted with the Request for Proposal Response.

RESPONDER NAME: ________________________________

TITLE: _____________________________________________

DATE: _____________________________________________

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