NIGP 952: Human Services

NIGP 952 Human Services is a Class code under which state and local governments procure social services, behavioral health, youth and family services, and related human-services support. Recent solicitations show the code captures organizational consulting, family preservation and reunification, homeless services coordination, youth detention program assessment, early childhood education technical assistance, adoption and foster-family recruitment, medical direction for emergency services, suicide prevention training, loan portfolio management for affordable housing, competency restoration education, monitored visitation coordination, substance-abuse recovery support, grant writing assistance, and fiscal and program administration. Issuing bodies span state departments (Maine DHHS, Colorado DHS, New Hampshire DHHS, Delaware DMMA, Nebraska DHHS, Colorado OCFMH), counties (Dane County Wisconsin, Sarasota County, Orange County, San Mateo County, Palm Beach County, Prince George's County Maryland, Seminole County), cities (Santa Cruz, Dallas, St. Petersburg, Houston, Tucson, Milpitas, Wichita, Detroit, Fort Myers), and special districts (West Basin Municipal Water District, Ontario International Airport Authority). A pattern of repeat buyers emerges: Maine Department of Health and Human Services (five active solicitations spanning adoption recruitment, early childhood TA, monitored visitation, HOMEBUILDERS family preservation, and professional development networks); New Hampshire DHHS (four RFPs covering youth detention assessment, dietary services, reunion facilitation, and juvenile justice compliance tracking); Palm Beach County Community Services (three CoC competition rounds for homeless services); Colorado DHS (two RFAs for outpatient competency restoration and MIECHV home visiting); and San Mateo County Executive's Office (two RFPs for permit-process facilitation and private defender program evaluation).

Recent solicitations document activity concentrated in Maine, New Hampshire, Colorado, Florida (Palm Beach County, Orange County, Sarasota County), Wisconsin (Dane County), California (Santa Cruz, San Mateo, St. Petersburg, Milpitas), and Texas (Dallas, Tucson). Representative recent opportunities include the Maine Department of Health and Human Services requesting proposals for statewide Adoption, Kinship, Foster, and Resource Family Recruitment Services (RFP 202606102, due July 24, 2026), requiring comprehensive recruitment across five marketing domains with quarterly events and a 24/7 information line; the City of Santa Cruz requesting proposals for Parks and Recreation Department Organizational Assessment Services (PR0314, due July 17, 2026), requiring consultant experience with five prior organizational assessments of California municipal Parks and Recreation Departments with $15 million-plus budgets; the Palm Beach County Community Services Department requesting applications for Recovery Community Organizations and Recovery Community Centers using opioid settlement funds (NOFO26, due July 20, 2026), serving substance-use-disorder populations with peer-led recovery coaching and employment support across two years with $1.3 million total funding; the Colorado Department of Early Childhood requesting proposals for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program services (RFPQAAA20270000031, due August 14, 2026) under HIPPY, PAT, and NFP models serving at-risk families with maximum $50,000 budget per contractor; and the City of St. Petersburg requesting proposals for comprehensive loan portfolio management serving affordable housing programs with HUD and SHIP-funded loans exceeding 1,000 active accounts (RFP26283, due September 1, 2026). The code is active across multiple state and local geographies with a high volume of competitive solicitations spanning family preservation, homeless services, youth and early childhood programming, and administrative support for human-services systems.