15 November 2011

Question. Can economic enterprises qualify as communities in the sense of the community priority evaluation criteria?

Answer. There is no provision in the Applicant Guidebook for an application to "qualify" as a community. The designation of an application as community-based is entirely at the discretion of the applicant.

A community priority evaluation might occur as a result of string contention.Where an applicant goes through community priority evaluation, according to the criteria in Module 4 of the Applicant Guidebook, an application meeting the threshold score of 14 will be awarded priority in the contention set.

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