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This is an Official Q&A document from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division for Behavioral Health, responding to vendor questions for Request for Proposal RFP-2027-DBH-03-FAMIL for Family Support Coordinator Services. The solicitation seeks a single vendor physically located in New Hampshire to develop, facilitate, and coordinate family and community support groups for families affected by substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders, with statewide service availability required. Key deliverables include establishing and maintaining family support groups with a minimum of 100 monthly participants in the first year, recruiting and training a minimum of five new facilitators within 120 days and five annually thereafter, developing an approved facilitator training curriculum within 90 days, conducting quarterly stakeholder meetings, offering suicide prevention training a minimum of four times annually, providing 15 scholarships for community member facilitators, conducting quarterly focus groups, and creating comprehensive digital and internet-based marketing materials. The vendor questions deadline was March 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time, with the Department response to questions issued on March 27, 2026, and the solicitation response due date of April 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time via electronic submission to rfx@dhhs.nh.gov. The contract is effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, with the Department reserving the right to extend services for up to two additional one-year periods. No bidders' conference or mandatory site visit was required, though the Department reserved the right to conduct site visits at its discretion.

The document indicates that the Department received no vendor questions regarding this solicitation. Total funding available is $110,000 for State Fiscal Year 2027 from General Funds, with monthly payments based on approved budgets submitted upon notification of award, and the indirect cost rate for non-federal funding capped at 15% or the vendor's federal Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement, whichever is lower. The solicitation identifies no set-asides or disadvantaged enterprise restrictions and does not identify an incumbent vendor. Evaluation will be conducted on 1,000 total possible points, with 700 points allocated to technical response and 300 points for cost proposal, requiring a minimum of 400 points during preliminary technical scoring to advance to cost evaluation. Vendors must comply with Title VI civil rights provisions, Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services standards, HIPAA and state privacy law compliance, criminal background checks and registry searches, and comprehensive data security standards, while maintaining commercial general liability insurance of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate.