Section 1290.60 Selection Process

Section 1290.60  Selection

Process

a)         The Division will conduct a comprehensive,

fair and impartial evaluation of the applications timely received.  It will

award dispensing organization authorizations on a competitive basis.

b)         Applications will be assessed to determine

whether they meet the mandatory minimum qualification criteria.  Application

items are mandatory unless otherwise indicated.  An applicant that fails to

submit the information required by this Part may be disqualified prior to the

review and scoring process.

c)         The Division will accept applications,

assigning each one a unique identification number.  During the selection

process, the application will be reviewed and referred to by its unique

identification number.

d)         An application will be disqualified if one

or more of the prospective principal officers has been convicted of an excluded

offense.

e)         When the Division receives more than one

complete and timely filed application for an authorization in a District, the

Division will choose the applicant through a selection and scoring process (see

Section 1290.70).

f)         The

Division will rank each complete application based on its total score.

g)         Authorizations will be issued to the

applicants meeting at least the minimum criteria in each category and with the

highest total score overall per District and based on the number of allocated registrations

per District.

h)         In the event that two or more applicants

receive the same total high score, the Division will select the applicant that

received the highest score in the security and recordkeeping categories.  In

the event that the applicants received the same score in the security and

recordkeeping categories, the tied applicants will be interviewed by a panel of

three Department employees selected by the Director. The panel will interview

the applicants based on the information gathered during the application

process

that

received the highest score in the security and recordkeeping categories.  In

the event that the applicants received the same score in the security and

recordkeeping categories, the tied applicants will be interviewed by a panel of

three Department employees selected by the Director. The panel will interview

the applicants based on the information gathered during the application

process.  The panel will make a written recommendation to the Director, and the

Director will review the recommendation and make a final written determination.

i)          The Division may issue up to 60 dispensing

organization authorizations.  If the Division concludes that, during the first

request for applications, no qualified applications are timely received for a

District or Districts, the Division reserves the right to award fewer than 60 authorizations.

If a second round of applications is required, the second round will be

conducted in the same manner as the first.

j)          An authorization notice will be sent to a

successful applicant. The authorization notice will include a registry

identification number to be used on all future communication with the Division.

k)         Notwithstanding Section 1290.620, nothing in

this Part is intended to confer a property or other right, duty, privilege or

interest entitling an applicant to an administrative hearing upon denial of an

application.

l)          To reassign a registration, the Division

will publish on its website, and in such other places as the Division deems

appropriate, a notice of open applications for dispensary registration. The

notice shall include:

1)         The number of registrations anticipated to

be awarded;

2)         Information on how to obtain an

application;

3)         The deadline for receipt of applications;

4)         Acceptable methods for submitting an application;

and

5)         The available District.