10848_ITN_Exhibit 4_Start-Up_Implementation.docx

The document is an Exhibit 4 - Start-Up Implementation Plan from an Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) issued by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) for CINS/FINS, Statewide Respite Care Services, and evidence-based or promising practices delinquency prevention programming. The Respondent must provide a plan detailing all activities to be accomplished within the first 30 days from Notice of Agency Decision to contract execution, so that services can begin for youth by January 1, 2025. The required activities include appointing/hiring staff, conducting background screening, providing staff training and/or certification, establishing a recruitment plan, and setting up the fiscal infrastructure and program facility.

The overall state and local contract opportunity seeks proposals from community, faith-based, not-for-profit organizations, LLCs, and/or divisions of local government to design, create, develop, implement, manage, and coordinate the local delivery of residential and non-residential statewide services for CINS/FINS youth and families, provide statewide support services, data collection and reporting, management, and enforcement of the service provisions. The DJJ is seeking to procure a lead agency that will subcontract and provide management and administrative oversight of a statewide network of community-based respite care service providers.