Pre-Solicitation Homeless Data Integration System - Maintenance and Operations (HDIS - M&O)

The HDIS (Homeless Data Integration System) supports the Cal ICH's (Interagency Council on Homelessness) mission to develop policies and identify resources, benefits and services to prevent and work toward ending homelessness in California.  The HDIS collects and aggregates local Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data received from various programs throughout the state and consolidates the data into one comprehensive reporting system.
The HDIS provides the State with an unduplicated count of people accessing services while experiencing homelessness in California 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 California Continuums of Care (CoCs) that coordinate housing and services for homeless individuals in specific geographic areas and enter in data through forty-four separate HMIS modules. A variety of service providers, including nonprofits and local government entities, comprise the CoC, implement the CoCs¿ projects. Each CoC manages an HMIS system which collects specific data elements prescribed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the HMIS Data Standards Manual. Each CoC functions uniquely and independently of one another.