<p>BFET Letter of Interest Template:</p><p>Email your completed outline to the BFET Program Manager at: [email protected] Or mail it to: Jason Turner, Basic Food Program Manager P.O. Box 45470 Olympia, WA 98504-5470</p><p>Please respond to the following questions:</p><p>AGENCY NAME: Agency Contact Person: </p><p>Phone: Email: </p><p>New BFET contracts will begin on the next April 1st or October 1st. Please indicate which start date your agency is interested in: April 1 October 1</p><p>SERVICE CAPACITY 1. Service Capacity: please describe which BFET components (services) your agency will provide for BFET-eligible recipients. If you plan to partner with a community college(s) as a part of these services, please include a brief description. Respond to the service capacity questions. (1000 words)</p><p>2. What is your agency’s intended BFET service area (i.e. what city, county or region will you be serving)? If services will vary by location, please indicate which services will be available in which location(s).</p><p>3. How many BFET participants you will serve in your first year under each service area you plan to provide?</p><p>TECHNOLOGY CAPCACITY 4. Data/Information Capacity: please describe your agency’s ability to enter and track data for basic food eligible recipients; refer to checklist questions. (600 words)</p><p>FISCAL CAPACITY</p><p>1 5. Financial Capacity: please describe your agency’s financial capacity to participate in a Federal reimbursement grant; refer to check list questions. (1000 words)</p><p>6. Include a projected one year budget for the services outlined, broken down by service type (i.e. training, job search, basic education etc.). Replace “Service Type 1” with the services you will provide, etc. Please include only service costs for estimated BFET-eligible participants (for example, if you estimate that about one-third of the students in a training program will be BFET- eligible, then include 33% of the supplies and staff costs for the program, etc.). Please use the basic line item categories below.</p><p>Service Service Service Service Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4 Total Salaries & Benefits </p><p>Rent & Utilities Supplies (e.g. training materials, office supplies, etc.) Participant Support Services (e.g. if you provide bus passes, assist with housing or medical costs, provide clothing, assist with childcare costs, etc.) Costs to participants (e.g. tuition, fees, books, etc.) Other (please describe briefly: ) Total</p><p>7. Please specify the source(s) of your agency’s matching funds for 50% of the projected budget. </p><p>2</p>