DCF SS 2122 092 - PUR_7778_HOMEBUILDERS.pdf

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NOTICE OF INTENDED DECISION

TO ENTER INTO A SINGLE SOURCE CONTRACT

(PUR 7778)

This Notice of Intended Decision to Enter into a Single Source Contract is posted in accordance with Section 287.057(3), Florida Statutes.

AGENCY: Florida Department of Children and Families

TITLE: HOMEBUILDERS

Short description of the commodity or service desired: Training activites for therapist, supervisors and program managers, onsite consulation, quality assurance activies, client data and documentation activities on HOMEBUILDERS evidence-based model that provides intensive, in-home counseling, skill building and support services for families who have children (0-18 years old) at imminent risk of out-of-home placement or who are in placement and cannot be reunified without intensive in-home services. The term of the resulting agreement will be March

1, 2022 through June 30, 2024. A previous Single Source Purchase was performed, and this

Single Source Purchase is to adjust the term dates of the agreement.

CONTACT

Name: Alison Ramos-Coleman

Address: 2415 North Monroe Street Suite 300, Tallahassee, Florida 32399

Telephone: 850-661-4162

Email: Alison.Coleman@myflfamilies.com

Internal tracking number, if any: DCF SS 2122 092

DMS Single Source number, if applicable:

Date posted: June 2, 2022 Time posted: 12:30 PM

Commodity or Contractual Service (commodity or United Nation Standard Products and

Services Code (UNSPSC), manufacturer, model, and description, as appropriate):

93141507 Social work administration services

86111603 Parent education

Requestor (division, bureau, office, individual, as appropriate):

Office of Child & Family Well-Being

Performance and/or Design Requirements (intended use, function or application, compatibility, requirements; reference to policy, rule, statute or other act of the Legislature, as appropriate):

Florida's Child Welfare System of Care is taking steps to support and enchance competent, skilled, and professional child welfare workforce to deliver trauma informed and evidence based services to children and families. The intent of this purchase is to procure for delivery of statewide training activites, onsite consulation, quality assurance activities, client data and documentation activities on providing service to fidelity on the well supported evidenced based prevention service which has been identifed on the Title IV-E Prevention Services

Clearinghouse (section 476(d)(2)) (https://preventionservices.abtsites.com/). Pursuant to section

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471 (42 U.S.C. 671) (e) (4) (C) to be eligible to claim federal matching payment under section

474 (a)(6)(A) for expenditures on services or programs, the service or program must have been rated promising, supported, or well supported practice. At least 50 percent of the amounts expended by the state for a fiscal year (FY) for the title IV-E prevention program must be for services that meet the well-supported practice criteria (section 474(a)(6)(A)(ii) of the Act).

Intended Single Source:

Institute for Family Development

Price:

$502,267.50

Justification for Single Source Purchase (what is necessary and unique about the commodity, contractual service, or source; steps taken to confirm unavailability of competition, as appropriate):

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) was signed into law as part of the Bipartisan

Budget Act on February 9, 2018. This act reforms the federal child welfare financing streams, Title IV-E and Title IV-B of the Social Security Act, to provide services to families who are at risk of entering the child welfare system. States may use title IV-E funding to provide up to 12 months of mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and in-home parenting training to families at risk of entry of the child welfare system. The services must be trauma-informed and pre-approved on the federal Title IV-E Clearinghouse (clearinghouse) as promising, supported, well-supported evidence-based practices. Furthermore, the grant funds require that at least 50% of total grant expenditures must be for well-supported practices.

The state is electing to provide a Title IV-E prevention program and is working with committees and subcommittees for drafting the state's five-year prevention program plan pursuant to section

471(e )(5) of the FFPSA act. The drafted state's five-year prevention program plan has identifed

HOMEBUILDERS, which is rated as a well-supported evidence based service, to be use throughout Florida for strengthening families by preventing child maltreatment, unnecessary removal of children from their families, and homelessness among youth. The use of

HOMEBUILDERS will allow Florida to claim federal matching payment for expenditures on prevention services provided.

Institute for Family Development (IFD) is the creator of the training and authorized for delivery of HOMEBUILDERS to promote fidelity in the practice through well-conducted research, training, and continuing education of therapists, supervisors, and program managers. Institute for

Family Development issues the certification to document therapists, supervisors, and program managers have met the standard for competent delivery of the treatment. The IFD is the parent agency of the Homebuilders program. They have trademarked the program/name, training/fidelity, and QA materials and are copyrighted and owned by IFD. HOMEBUILDERS is the only entity listed on the pre-approved clearinghouse, and the Department must select a vendor from that list. No other individuals or organizations have the legal right to provide the site development activities or share or distribute HOMEBUILDERS materials.

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Approved By (names & titles, as appropriate, e.g., requestor, requestor management, information systems, budget, purchasing):

Ashley Dowdy, Director of Business Operations

Sean Garner, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Child & Family Well-Being

Holly Merrick, Budget Office

LeAnne Landrum, Contract Administrator

Kimberly McMahon, Chief of Solicitations

Thomas Valentine, Assistant General Counsel

Sharron Washington, Assistant Scretary for Office of Quality

Jessica Tharpe, Assistant Secretary for Child & Family Well-Being

Failure to file a protest within the time prescribed in Section 120.57(3), Florida Statutes, or failure to file a bond or other security within the time allowed for filing a bond, shall constitute a waiver of proceedings under Chapter 120, Florida Statutes.