Responses to Follow-up Questions for 15BCTS23Q00000005.pdf

Additional Questions

1. Are clients being seen in person or remotely?

Response: Clients are being seen in‐person. However, contract line item numbers 5030 ‐ Psychiatric

Evaluation & Report ‐ Mental Health and 6051 ‐ Medication Monitoring and Report ‐ Mental Health, can be provided via telehealth if approved.

2. Which electronic medical records are acceptable?

Response: Any electronic medical records system must meet the requirements stated in clause DJARS

PGD15‐03.

3. Is MAT a part of the contract?

Response: Yes. Medication Assisted Treatment is apart of this requirement.

4. Do employees need to have background checks before submission of the bid?

Response: No. Background checks are not required prior to submission of the quotation. However, they will be required prior to the award of the pending contract.

5. Will medication prescribers be required to prescribe anything other than mental health medications, such as Naltrexone?

Response: Yes. They will need to be able to prescribe Buprenorphine and Naltrexone.

6. Are the substance abuse groups being done now?

Response: Yes. Substance abuse groups will need to be conducted in‐person for this requirement.

Additional Clarification from First Set of Questions

Question: I was as quickly glancing over the documents and one thing really caught my attention. It stated the clinical staff must be able to work independently and without supervision. We have some staff throughout our offices that are fully licensed such as LCSW and some are LCSW‐A. Does a BOP contract allow for a licensed therapist who is being supervised under the (A) criteria to perform counseling? We currently provide services with fully licensed along with those with the (A) classification with Federal Probation and have done so for many years.

Response: In accordance with chart 2B of Section 2.1 of the solicitation, a Licensed Clinical Social

Worker Associate (LCSW‐A) would not meet the requirements of the solicitation. All direct clinical treatment services are to be provided by clinicians who currently hold a professional license to practice independently, without supervision, in the state where services will be rendered. Please refer to chart 2B for the acceptable licenses for this requirement.