The Forrester Center For Behavioral Health Inc.

The Forrester Center For Behavioral Health Inc., a non-profit organization based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, operates as a federal grant sub-recipient delivering outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use disorder treatment services to Appalachian and upstate South Carolina communities under state-administered federal grants. The organization does not hold prime federal contracts or compete for federal contract vehicles; it operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal health grants flowing through the South Carolina Department of Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Services.

Forrester's federal footprint centers on two grantor agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) anchors seven of nine recent awards, while the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accounts for two awards. The organization's combined federal obligation across all nine awards totals $4.6 million, with a majority of awards dating from 2023 onward. Award timing clusters around the fiscal year: multiple sub-awards carry July 1 effective dates, consistent with SAMHSA's annual grant cycle.

Forrester's recent grant work centers on two federal programs. The South Carolina State Opioid Response (SC SOR) Project, a SAMHSA-funded initiative, appears in four sub-awards (November 2024, July 2024, July 2023, and September 2025) focused on comprehensive prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery services targeting the opioid and stimulant use disorder crisis. Alongside SOR, Forrester holds multiple sub-awards under SAMHSA's block grant programs addressing substance use treatment and recovery support services, with two August 2025 and one September 2025 sub-award explicitly targeting treatment access for uninsured and low-income individuals. The organization's core operational scope is outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment delivery within the state agency's catchment area.

The organization's sub-recipient posture (78% of awards) reflects its operating model — Forrester serves as a service-delivery arm of the South Carolina state grant administration, rather than as an independent federal grantee or prime contractor. With no contract vehicles, no prime contract awards, and no federal procurement footprint, Forrester does not sit on GWACs, IDIQs, or agency-wide BPAs, and therefore does not represent a teaming partner or competitor in the federal contracting ecosystem. Its relevance to federal contractors lies principally in the health services sector and state-level substance use disorder program execution, where it functions as a state agency sub-grantee rather than a federal procurement participant.