41NHA-S4038-Request-for-Proposals.docx

Nevada State Purchasing Division Department of Administration 515 E Musser St Ste 300 Carson City, NV 89701 purchasing.nv.gov nevadaepro.com

Request for Proposals 41NHA-S4038

Release Date 10/08/2026

Solicitation number 41NHA-S4038

Single point of contact name Heather Moon

Single point of contact email hmoon@admin.nv.gov

Single point of contact phone 775-531-3309

Soliciting agency Nevada State Purchasing Division

Contracting agency Nevada Health Authority

Solicitation title Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)

Deadline for submissions 12/10/2026 @ 2:00 P.M. PST

For deaf and hard of hearing, call 711 and ask the relay agency to dial the single point of contact phone number above.

This request for proposals is available at nevadaepro.com as a bid solicitation.

Table of Contents

Applicable regulations governing procurement

Statute and code. All applicable Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) and Nevada Administrative Code (NAC) documentation can be found at: www.leg.state.nv.us/law1.cfm.

Single point of contact. Vendors and their representatives shall only contact the single point of contact or use the electronic procurement system regarding this solicitation until after a notice of award (NOA) has been issued. Failure to observe this restriction may result in disqualification of a response per NAC 333.155(3).

Ethics. Prospective vendors are advised to review Nevada’s ethical standards requirements, including but not limited to NRS 281A, NRS 333.800, and NAC 333.155.

GovRAMP NOTICE: Effective July 1, 2026, all new contracts containing a cloud component will include risk assessment requirements aligned with the GovRAMP program, which is based on NIST SP 800-53 (Revision 5). By submitting a response, vendors acknowledge they are responsible for reviewing and understanding the applicable GovRAMP requirements. Please refer to the GovRAMP link below for additional information and project-specific requirements. https://govramp.org/

Project overview

The Nevada State Purchasing Division on behalf of the Nevada Health Authority (NVHA) is seeking solicitations from qualified vendors to operate a Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) in the State of Nevada. Nevada faces unique challenges in meeting the needs of older adults’ healthcare needs due to a rapidly growing population, limited access to primary care and home and community-based services, and geographic constraints faced by rural and frontier regions.

Through this Request for Proposal (RFP), NVHA is addressing these challenges to improve quality and expand access to care for Nevada’s seniors through a new comprehensive integrated care model. PACE organizations provide integrated medical, behavioral health, social, and supportive services, with the goal of helping eligible seniors successfully live in their community. PACE organizations are also responsible for providing additional services deemed necessary to support a person’s health, safety, independence and quality of life, consistent with applicable federal and state requirements.

PACE eligible members are adults ages 55 and older who are eligible for Medicaid, meet a nursing facility level of care, and currently live in the community (i.e. not in a nursing facility). Information on potential PACE eligible members can be found at Nevada Medicaid Caseload Data to inform potential vendors of Nevada’s population.

NVHA is taking a scaled approach to launching PACE, with the goal of successful implementation in both high-density urban areas and rural and frontier communities. NVHA has defined set PACE Service Area(s) applicable to this solicitation. Potential vendors may submit proposals to operate one or more PACE site(s) only within the defined Service Area(s) and may not propose alternative Service Area(s). Operational and feasibility requirements for each Service Area is included in the Scope of Work.

The awarded Contractor(s) will provide PACE services for eligible Medicaid recipients at an established, risk-based monthly capitation rate. All administrative, operational, and service costs associated with providing the required services under this RFP shall be included in the fixed monthly capitation rates. The following are the AWOP percent and payment rates per Service Areas.

Clark County- 94 payment percent with a payment rate of $4,978.04 for Full Dual Eligibles and $8,385.06 for Non-Dual eligible individuals.

Washoe County- 94 payment percent with a payment rate of $4,5324.24 for Full Dual Eligibles and $7,642,05 for Non-Dual eligible individuals.

All Rural Counties- 94 payment percent with a payment rate of $5,226.94 for Full Dual Eligibles and $8,804.32 for Non-Dual eligible individuals.

The AWOP does not include any adjustment for Medicaid service changes that may occur between the base period of CY24 and CY25 and the contract period of CY28. There are no anticipated service changes that would impact the AWOP at this time; however, any new services implemented will be evaluated for the expected impact to the AWOP amount.

By submitting a proposal in response to this RFP, the bidder agrees to accept the capitation rates for the 2028 Calendar Year as developed by the NVHA’s contracted actuary. The awarded Contractor(s) will have an opportunity to review the actuarially sound capitation rates, including the methodology and assumptions, and provide feedback to the Department and its actuary. The awarded Contractor(s) shall facilitate all necessary activities at no additional cost beyond the capitation payment, unless otherwise expressly provided in the contract.

The State intends to award multiple contracts from this RFP, although the State is under no obligation to award any contracts as a result of this RFP. NVHA will administer the contract(s) resulting from this solicitation.

The contract term will be effective upon approval of the State of Nevada Board of Examiners through December 31, 2032, with the option to extend up to four additional years if determined to be in the best interest of the State and mutually agreed upon by both parties. The awarded Contractor(s) is only deemed qualified to begin services after a readiness review is successfully completed and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approval is received.

Contracting agency background

Nevada Health Authority oversees the implementation of PACE in Nevada in accordance with federal regulations under CFR Part 460. As the contracting agency, NVHA will provide oversight of program implementation, quality assurance, participant protections and ongoing compliance with federal and state requirements.

Goals and objectives

The objective of this RFP is to contract with PACE organization(s) to establish and operate sites that improve healthcare services for seniors across Nevada. This program is intended to expand community‑based alternatives to institutional care by delivering integrated health and social services through an interdisciplinary team that improves quality of care and health care outcomes for seniors. Vendor(s) awarded a Contract pursuant to this solicitation to provide PACE in Nevada are required to submit an application with CMS. If CMS approval is not obtained, NVHA has the right to cancel the award with the PACE organization. Awarded Contractors will be responsible for all associated costs to establish a fully operational PACE center. Approval from CMS is required to start receiving payment from NVHA.

The awarded Contractor shall submit an application to CMS for their PACE center approval which will be considered Phase One of Readiness Review. The NVHA will also perform an onsite Readiness Review (considered Phase 2) prior to CMS submission. The awarded Contractor shall at all times take any and all steps required to obtain CMS approval with the goal of service commencement in State Fiscal Year 2028 to 2029. If CMS approval is not obtained, NVHA has the right to cancel the award with the PACE organization.

Scope of work

See scope of work in ‘Attachments’ tab of NEVADAePro.

Attachments

Attachments incorporated by reference. To be read and not returned.

Scope of Work Terms and Conditions for services

Attachments for review. To be read and not returned (unless redlining).

Standard form contract Insurance schedule Business Associate Addendum – no redlining of document accepted Business Continuity Agreement – no redlining of document accepted

Attachments for response. To be completed and returned.

Technical Proposal Questions – Attachment A PACE Service Delivery Arrangements – Attachment B Reference questionnaire Certification regarding lobbying Vendor Information Response Form

Timeline

Questions. All questions regarding this solicitation shall be submitted using the bid Q&A feature at nevadaepro.com.

Timeline. The following represents the proposed timeline for this project.

All times stated are Pacific Time (PT).

These dates represent a tentative schedule of events.

The State reserves the right to modify these dates at any time.

The deadline for submissions is the nevadaepro.com bid opening date and time. Late quotes will not be accepted.

Evaluation

Evaluation and scoring are conducted in accordance with NRS 333.335 and NAC 333.160-333.165.

Responses shall be kept confidential until a contract is awarded.

In the event the solicitation is withdrawn prior to award, responses remain confidential.

The evaluation committee is an independent committee established to evaluate and score qualitative evaluation factors for the solicitation.

The State, at its option, may limit participation in cost scoring, presentations, or both to vendors above a natural break in relative scores.

Financial stability shall be scored on a pass or fail basis.

Responses shall be consistently evaluated and scored based upon the following factors and relative weights.

Technical factor #1 – Technical Proposal Response to Questions 100

Cost factor. Cost proposals are not required or accepted from bidders as costs are determined by an actuarially developed rate. The vendor is advised that this information should not be used as the only source of information in making pricing decisions. The vendor is solely responsible for research, preparation, and documentation of the vendor’s proposal and decision whether or not to submit a proposal.

Presentations. The State may require vendors to make a presentation. The State reserves the right to add additional criteria for presentations. The State reserves the right to forego presentations and select vendor(s) based on written responses submitted.

Best and final offers. Pursuant to NAC 333.165, the State reserves the right to permit revised responses or add criteria to obtain the best offers.

Mandatory minimum requirements

Pursuant to NRS 333.311 a contract cannot be awarded to a response that does not comply with the requirements listed in this section. Response shall include confirmation of compliance with all mandatory minimum requirements.

Nevada Law and State indemnity. Pursuant to NRS 333.339, any contract that is entered into may not: (1) require the filing of any action or the arbitration of any dispute that arises from the contract to be instituted or heard in another state or nation; or (2) require the State to indemnify another party against liability for damages.

No Boycott of Israel. Pursuant to NRS 333.338, the State of Nevada cannot enter a contract with a company unless that company agrees for the duration of the contract not to engage in a boycott of Israel. By submitting a response, vendor agrees that if it is awarded a contract, it will not engage in a boycott of Israel as defined in NRS 333.338(3)(a).

nevadaepro.com vendor registration. Pursuant to NRS 333.313, vendor must be registered at nevadaepro.com to respond to the solicitation. Vendor information must match Nevada business license and sam.gov entity registration. Vendor information in nevadaepro.com will be used for contract formation. Email address(es) associated with general mailing address or default bid mailing address (if different from general mailing address) in nevadaepro.com will be used for formal notifications. If a vendor has a different contact name and email for negotiations, that should be indicated on the title page(s) of their response.

Nevada business license. Pursuant to NRS 353.007, prior to contract execution awarded vendor must hold a state business license pursuant to NRS chapter 76 unless exempted by NRS 76.100(7)(b). Business license must match nevadaepro.com vendor registration.

System for Award Management (sam.gov) Prior to contract award vendor must hold an active entity registration in sam.gov. Entity registration must match nevadaepro.com vendor registration.

Contract responsibility. Awarded vendor shall be the sole point of contract responsibility. The State shall look solely to the awarded vendor for the performance of all contractual obligations which may result from an award based on this solicitation, and the awarded vendor shall not be relieved for the non-performance of any or all subcontractors.

Data encryption and stateside data. State IT requires that data be encrypted in transit and in rest. State IT requires that State data assets must be maintained in the United States and data will not be held offshore.

Confidentiality and certification of indemnification

Submitted responses, which are marked confidential in their entirety, or those in which a significant portion of the submitted response is marked confidential shall not be accepted. Pursuant to NRS 333.333, only proprietary information may be labeled a trade secret as defined in NRS 600A.030(5). All proposals are confidential until the contract is awarded; at which time, both successful and unsuccessful vendor proposals become public information.

Vendors shall submit proprietary information and confidential business information in separate files, flagged as confidential in nevadaepro.com. The State shall not be responsible for any information contained within a response; responses shall be released as submitted.

By submitting a response vendor acknowledges its responsibility to act in protection of labeled information and agrees to defend and indemnify the State of Nevada for honoring such designation. Failure to so act shall constitute a complete waiver, and all submitted information shall become public information; additionally, failure to label any information that is released by the State shall constitute a complete waiver of any and all claims for damages caused by the release of the information.

Vendor certifications

Vendor understands and acknowledges that the representations within their response are material and important and shall be relied on by the State in evaluation of the response. Any vendor misrepresentations shall be treated as fraudulent concealment from the State of the true facts relating to the response.

Any and all prices that may be charged under the terms of the contract do not and shall not violate any existing federal, State, or municipal laws or regulations concerning discrimination or price fixing. Vendor agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold the State harmless from liability for any such violation.

All response terms, including prices, shall remain in effect for a minimum of 180 days after the response due date. In the case of the awarded vendor, all response terms, including prices, shall remain in effect throughout the contract term.

The price(s) and amount of this response have been arrived at independently and without consultation, communication, agreement or disclosure with or to any other contractor, vendor, or potential vendor. No attempt has been made at any time to induce any firm or person to refrain from proposing or to submit a response higher than this response, or to submit any intentionally high or noncompetitive response. All responses shall be made in good faith and without collusion.

The information included in this response has been arrived at independently and without non-public information obtained from State officials, staff, or their agents.

All employees and contractors assigned to the project are authorized to work in this country.

Vendor has a written equal opportunity policy that does not discriminate in employment practices with regard to race, color, national origin, physical condition, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, developmental disability or disability of another nature.

Vendor has a written policy regarding compliance for maintaining a drug-free workplace.

Critical items

In addition to the scope of work and attachments, the items listed in this section are critical to the success of the project. These items will be used in evaluating and scoring responses. Vendor response should address items in this section in enough detail to provide evaluators an accurate understanding of vendor capabilities. Responses that fail to sufficiently respond to these items may be considered non-responsive.

Standard form contract. The State strongly prefers vendors agree to the terms of the attached standard form contract as is. Ability to agree to contract terms is a high priority to the State. Vendors who cannot agree to the contract as is must include a redlined Word version of the attached standard form contract with their response, with comments justifying the benefit to the State for each requested change. To the extent a vendor has prior contractual dealings with the State, no assumption should be made that terms outside those provided herein have any influence on this project.

Indemnification. Required contract terms on Indemnification: "To the fullest extent permitted by law, Contractor shall indemnify, hold harmless and defend, not excluding the State’s right to participate, the State from and against all liability, claims, actions, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, arising out of any breach of the obligations of Contractor under this contract, or any alleged negligent or willful acts or omissions of Contractor, its officers, employees and agents. Contractor’s obligation to indemnify the State shall apply in all cases except for claims arising solely from the State’s own negligence or willful misconduct. Contractor waives any rights of subrogation against the State. Contractor’s duty to defend begins when the State requests defense of any claim arising from this Contract."

Limited liability. Required contract terms on Limited Liability: "The State will not waive and intends to assert available NRS Chapter 41 liability limitations in all cases. Contract liability of both parties shall not be subject to punitive damages. Damages for any State breach shall never exceed the amount of funds appropriated for payment under this Contract, but not yet paid to Contractor, for the Fiscal Year budget in existence at the time of the breach. Contractor’s tort liability shall not be limited."

Insurance schedule. The State strongly prefers vendors agree to the terms of the attached insurance schedule as is. Vendors who cannot agree must explain which areas are causing non-compliance and attach a redline if necessary. Awarded vendor shall maintain, for the duration of the contract, insurance coverages as set forth in the fully executed contract. Work on the contract shall not begin until after the awarded vendor has submitted acceptable evidence of required insurance. Failure to maintain any required insurance coverage or acceptable alternative method of insurance shall be deemed a breach of contract.

Vendor background

Provide a background, history, and why vendor is qualified to provide the services described in this solicitation. Background should include, at a minimum, the location(s) of the office(s) that would perform the work and the number of employees locally and in total. History should include, at a minimum, the number of years in business and company headquarters location. Provide a brief description of the length of time vendor has been providing services described in this solicitation to the public or private sector. If your company has worked with the State previously, include information about those engagements.

Key personnel. Provide a resume free of photos or overly stylized formatting for proposed key personnel, whether employed directly or through a subcontractor.

Current or former employees. If you employ (a) any person who is a current employee of an agency of the State of Nevada, or (b) any person who has been an employee of an agency of the State of Nevada within the past two (2) years, and if such person shall be performing or producing the services which you shall be contracted to provide under this contract, you shall disclose the identity of each such person in your response, and specify the services that each person shall be expected to perform.

Exclusions. All conditions and provisions of this solicitation are deemed to be accepted by the vendor and incorporated by reference in the response, except such conditions and provisions that the vendor expressly excludes in the response. Any exclusion shall be in writing and included in the response at the time of submission.

Subcontractors

Subcontractors are defined as a third party, not directly employed by the contractor, who shall provide services identified in this solicitation. This does not include third parties who provide support or incidental services to the contractor.

Vendor shall disclose all proposed subcontractors. Response should include a vendor information response form for each proposed subcontractor.

Vendor shall not allow any subcontractor to commence work until all insurance required of the subcontractor is provided to the vendor.

Vendor shall certify that subcontractors comply with mandatory minimum requirements except contract responsibility.

Vendor response shall identify specific requirements of the project for which each subcontractor shall perform services.

How the work of any subcontractor(s) shall be supervised How channels of communication shall be maintained How compliance with contracts terms and conditions will be assured Previous experience with subcontractor(s)

Confidential business information

The information requested in this section is designated as confidential business information by the Administrator pursuant to NRS 333.020(5)(b) and is not public information pursuant to NRS 333.333.

This information should be submitted as a separate attachment, flagged as confidential in nevadaepro.com.

Dun and Bradstreet number. Vendor shall provide their Dun and Bradstreet Number.

Financial information. Vendor shall provide the last two full years and current year interim (a) profit and loss statements and (b) balance statements.

Disclosure. Vendor shall provide complete disclosure of any alleged significant prior or ongoing contract failures, contract breaches, any civil or criminal litigation or investigations pending which involves the vendor or in which the vendor has been judged guilty or liable.

Conflict of interest. Vendor shall disclose any existing or potential conflict of interest relative to the performance of the contractual services resulting from this solicitation. Any such relationship that might be perceived or represented as a conflict shall be disclosed. By submitting a response in response to this solicitation, vendors affirm that they have not given, nor intend to give at any time hereafter, any economic opportunity, future employment, gift, loan, gratuity, special discount, trip, favor, or service to a public servant or any employee or representative of same, in connection with this procurement. Any attempt to intentionally or unintentionally conceal or obfuscate a conflict of interest shall result in disqualification of a vendor response. An award shall not be made where a conflict of interest exists. The State shall determine whether a conflict of interest exists and whether it may reflect negatively on State vendor selection. The State reserves the right to disqualify any vendor on the grounds of actual or apparent conflict of interest.

Client references

Vendor shall provide reference questionnaire attachment to client references from similar projects performed for private or public sector clients within the last five years.

The single point of contact must receive at least three complete reference questionnaire documents directly from the client references via email.

The purpose of these references is to document relevant experience and aid in the evaluation process.

Reference questionnaire will not be accepted directly from proposing vendors.

Client references shall not be requested from the contracting agency.

The State will not disclose client references, but may confirm if a reference questionnaire has been received.

The State reserves the right to contact client references during evaluation or negotiations.

Submission checklist

This section identifies documents that vendors shall submit to be considered responsive. Vendors are encouraged to review all requirements to ensure all requested information is included in their response.

Responses must be submitted as a quote through nevadaepro.com.

Vendors are encouraged to submit a single file attachment per section where possible.

Technical proposal information and cost proposal information shall not be included in the same attachment.

Cost proposal attachment shall not be flagged as confidential in nevadaepro.com.

Additional attachments may be included, but are discouraged and should be kept to a minimum.

Technical proposal

Title page Table of contents Signed certification regarding lobbying Response to mandatory minimum requirements Response to critical items Response to scope of work Other informational material

Proprietary information. If necessary. Attachment should be flagged confidential in nevadaepro.com.

Title page Table of contents Trade secret information, cross referenced to the technical proposal (alternatively, a redacted technical proposal and a full confidential technical proposal can be submitted)

Cost proposal

Confidential business information. Attachment should be flagged confidential in nevadaepro.com.

Other attachments. If necessary, not recommended.

Client references. Not submitted directly by vendor. To be submitted to sole point of contract on RFP.

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