EMERGENCY NOTICE: 3rd Quality Improvement and Utilization Management

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services is issuing an emergency procurement for the third consecutive 90-day contract to provide quality improvement and utilization management services across multiple healthcare settings within the state. This emergency purchase declaration, posted May 1, 2026, with a due date of July 26, 2026, seeks to maintain critical quality assurance and utilization review functions in fee-for-service hospital inpatient settings, hospital outpatient care, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, long-term acute care hospitals, integrated health homes, and community-based treatment services. The primary objectives include ensuring continuity of healthcare quality oversight and utilization management across the state's healthcare system during an ongoing transition period. The procurement emphasizes the time-sensitive and critical nature of these services, which require immediate contract extension to prevent service disruption. Bidders must demonstrate the capability to provide comprehensive quality assurance services, utilization review expertise, and coordination across multiple care settings and levels of care. The evaluation of proposals will consider vendors' ability to maintain existing service requirements and provider relationships while ensuring seamless continuity of care quality monitoring functions. The emergency declaration indicates that standard procurement processes cannot accommodate the urgency of these services, necessitating expedited contracting authority.

The available documentation does not specify set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises, women-owned businesses, or other protected classifications. No incumbent vendors or current contractors are identified in the materials provided, nor are there details regarding existing infrastructure or technology systems that bidders must integrate with. Similarly, the specific award value or budget range for this 90-day emergency contract extension has not been disclosed in the available procurement materials. Interested vendors should contact the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services for additional details regarding specific qualification requirements, technical specifications, and any potential contract value information that may be available through the procurement process.