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Single Feasible Source Purchase
| Title: |
| School-Based Suicide Prevention, Bullying Intervention, and Mental Health Therapy Services |
| Description: |
| The Department of Social Services requires a nonprofit organization to provide school districts’ students personnel with suicide prevention skills and awareness, training on social media harassment and bullying interventions, and mental health therapy resources in any county with more than four hundred thousand but fewer than five hundred thousand inhabitants. The Megan Meier Foundation is the only provider in St. Charles County that provides the aforementioned services. |
The Megan Meier Foundation provides vital programs that support struggling youth, including educational presentations, community resources, and free counseling services that have served over half a million people to date. In addition, the Megan Meier Foundation provides services tailored to mental health issues, bullying and cyberbullying, resiliency, and peer-to-peer conflict resolution.
House Bill 11 Section 259 requires the following:
For a nonprofit organization located in any county with more than four hundred thousand but fewer than five hundred thousand inhabitants whose mission is to provide school districts’ student personnel with suicide prevention skills and awareness, training on social media harassment and bullying interventions, and mental health therapy resources.
According to RSMo 34.044, a single feasible source can be utilized when the product/service requirement is proprietary and only available from a single provider. As a result, this represents a proprietary requirement that meets the criteria as a single feasible source under RSMo 34.044 and the State is pursuing this acquisition as a Single Feasible Source.
| Contract Period: |
| Effective Date of Contract to June 30, 2027 |
| Renewal Options: |
| Two 1-year renewal options |
| Agency: |
| Department of Social Services |
| Supplier: |
| Megan Meier Foundation |
| E-Mail: |
| Julie.Kleffner@oa.mo.gov |
| and |
| purchmail@oa.mo.gov |
| Requisition No.: |
| RXO12700049 |
| SFS No.: |
| STATE 0000000589SL |