RES-50-Beds-Moderate-Males-JSO-Central-C13

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is requesting proposals for a fifty-bed moderate-risk residential program serving males ages ten to nineteen requiring Juvenile Sexual Offender Treatment Services, with proposals due July 2, 2026. The program shall operate at the Department-owned facility at 9502 Columbus Drive, Tampa, Florida 33619 (Circuit 13, Central Region), or at a Respondent-owned or leased facility elsewhere in Florida. A mandatory Notice of Intent to Submit must be filed by the deadline in Attachment B. Respondents proposing at the Department-owned facility must attend a mandatory Department site visit. Disqualification applies to any Respondent whose contract was terminated for cause within twelve months preceding the notice of intended award.

The scope encompasses twenty-four-hour-per-day, seven-day-per-week custody, care, treatment, and supervision utilizing evidence-based and promising practices. Core services include Juvenile Sexual Offender Treatment Services, delinquency programming, academic and career-technical education, recreation therapy, discharge planning, and case management. The Department reserves the right to add overlay services including Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health, Intensive Mental Health Treatment, Comprehensive Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders, Borderline Intellectual Functioning Services, Developmental Disability Treatment, and Medical Complex Residential services as needed. Direct care staff require a minimum starting hourly rate of $19.00. Mental health clinical staff require minimum annual salaries of $50,000 (non-licensed), $79,000 (licensed mental health staff), and $85,000 (Designated Mental Health Clinician Authority). Health and nursing services require one Health Services Administrator (Registered Nurse) and two Registered Nurses for a minimum of 120 nursing hours per week. Minimum staffing ratios are 1:8 (awake), 1:10 (asleep), 1:5 (off-site), and 1:5 (tool management). At least sixty percent of youths' waking hours must be structured activities. Performance standards include zero escapes due to supervision failure, 90% completion of transition plan objectives twenty-one days prior to release, and 90% completion of community service requirements.

Proposals must be submitted in three volumes: technical narrative (70-page limit, 12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced, 1-inch margins) with one original and eight copies; financial proposal in Excel format with one original and two copies; and past performance documentation with one original and two copies. Mandatory attachments include the Foreign Country of Concern Attestation (Attachment L), Past Performance Evaluation (Attachment D), and financial viability documentation reviewed on a pass/fail basis. Tie-breaking eligibility includes drug-free workplace certification, certified minority business enterprise (CMBE), service-disabled veterans' business enterprise, Florida-based businesses, and foreign manufacturers with Florida factories employing over 200 employees. The Department intends to award a single contract based on funding availability and service needs.