NIGP 95247: Foster Care Services

NIGP 95247 Foster Care Services (Item) encompasses residential and community-based treatment, supervision, and support services for children and youth in state custody or protective care, including residential treatment facilities for behavioral and emotional disorders, mobile supervision in temporary lodging settings, peer support and mentoring for families awaiting services, and specialized care programming such as juvenile sexual offender treatment. State departments of health and human services dominate solicitations under this code, joined by departments of child protective services, juvenile justice, and county health and social services offices. Recent opportunities span Utah (multiple five-year contracts from DHHS for residential treatment, employment training, and peer support), Texas (HHSC procuring home study and assessment services across eleven regions), Oregon (ODHS seeking individual residential care and mobile child-caring agency services), Florida (Department of Juvenile Justice operating a fifty-bed moderate-risk residential program for sexual offenders), Mississippi (MDCPS building a continuum of care network), and Solano County, California (health and social services establishing a pool for innovative foster care models). Procurement methods include RFPs, RFQs, and RFAs, with response dates concentrated in the second and third quarters of 2026.

Representative recent opportunities reflect the scope: the Utah Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting residential treatment services for youth with serious emotional or behavioral disorders through July 29, 2026, requiring two years of experience serving similar populations and a state Medicaid provider license; the Oregon Department of Human Services is seeking mobile child-caring agencies to supervise youth ages five through twenty in temporary lodging statewide, proposals due February 10, 2026; the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is procuring CPS home study, assessment, and foster/adoption screening services across eleven regions with FY 2024 spending of $2.85 million, responding organizations due March 30, 2026; and the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is operating a fifty-bed juvenile sexual offender treatment program at a Department-owned Tampa facility, proposals due July 2, 2026. Licensing, staff credentialing (QMHA, bachelor's degrees in social services, clinical mental health certifications), trauma-informed programming, and federal compliance (HIPAA, background checks, abuse reporting) are standard requirements. Compensation structures vary—fixed daily per-diem rates, fee-for-service hourly rates, and fixed-price per-day models predominate, with Texas projecting annual spend near $3.5 million and Mississippi establishing per-diem ranges from $25.37 to $475 depending on facility type.