Opportunity Overview
North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Division of Rehabilitation and Reentry has issued RFP 52-RFP-2331648103-CCS, Transitional Housing for Offenders with Specialized Needs, associated with eVP sourcing document Doc2331648105. The official North Carolina eVP record is currently Open and describes the requirement as transitional housing and related services for offenders with specialized needs.
Deadline and Submission
Proposals are due September 25, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time through the North Carolina State Sourcing Tool. The solicitation was posted August 14, 2026. Current procurement indexes identify Cindy Self as the procurement contact. The public read-only eVP page confirms Open status and scope but does not expose its schedule, contact, attachment or addenda fields; bidders should therefore rely on the authenticated Sourcing Tool immediately before filing.
Scope of Work
The RFP seeks community-based transitional housing for adults under correctional supervision who have specialized needs, including serious mental illness, substance-use disorders, intellectual or developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and other conditions requiring additional support. Providers must furnish at least four beds per location and a structured environment with case management, mental-health counseling by appropriately licensed professionals, substance-use treatment, cognitive-behavioral interventions, education and employment assistance, life-skills support, community-resource coordination and coordination with probation/parole personnel. Facilities must be gender-separated when serving both men and women, accessible, compliant with applicable building and safety requirements, and supported by 24-hour supervision and facility controls.
Term, Value and Cost Share
The initial contract term is one year, with up to two additional one-year renewal options. No authoritative contract ceiling, guaranteed minimum or maximum value is published in the accessible controlling record, so Atlas does not use third-party budget estimates. This is a state service procurement rather than a grant, so grant-style match or cost share is not applicable.
Eligibility and Qualification Requirements
Prospective vendors must be registered and in good standing for North Carolina procurement, possess the organizational and facility capacity to operate qualifying transitional housing, and demonstrate relevant experience serving justice-involved people with specialized behavioral-health, substance-use, disability or medical-support needs. Indexed RFP analysis also identifies mandatory staff background checks, appropriate professional licensure for mental-health services, CPR, First Aid and Nonviolent Crisis Intervention qualifications, ADA and PREA compliance, annual facility inspection requirements and applicable North Carolina business registration. Final eligibility must be checked against the authenticated RFP package.
Proposal Package and Amendment Control
The State’s public read-only eVP interface currently blocks access to the attachment and addenda panes. Independent procurement indexing confirms one RFP document and reports that the RFP contains a multi-item response checklist, including technical, organizational, pricing, experience and certification materials, but the complete current form-by-form checklist is not publicly exposed through the accessible source. Atlas therefore does not invent or represent an unverified attachment list as complete. Any bidder must download the authenticated eVP/Sourcing Tool package, complete every required form and certification, and verify whether any addendum has been issued before submission.
Evaluation
Indexed RFP analysis describes a Best Value/ranking evaluation considering vendor experience, technical approach, project organization and pricing. Selected vendors are expected to provide implementation/work-plan materials, ongoing case documentation and recurring progress reporting during performance.
Atlas Fit Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 79/100. The procurement is strongly relevant to behavioral health, substance-use recovery and care-transition infrastructure for a high-need North Carolina population, with a multi-year potential term and multiple service components. The principal execution barriers are residential-facility capacity, 24-hour operations, correctional/reentry experience, licensed behavioral-health services, safety/PREA requirements and complete staffing coverage.
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. The requirement is for residential transitional housing and human services rather than remote physical examination, connected diagnostics or telehealth technology. N9+ should not be forced into this procurement.
Direct Vendor Assessment and Realistic Organizations
Current Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare records do not substantiate ownership or operation of qualifying transitional housing, 24-hour residential supervision, correctional reentry programming, licensed mental-health/substance-use staffing or comparable residential past performance. Atlas therefore does not advance Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare as a direct prime bidder.
Realistic North Carolina organizations to evaluate include Leading Into New Communities (LINC), Inc., whose M.E. Roberts Transitional Living Campus provides transitional housing, intensive case management, job training, substance-use treatment and access to mental-health and medical services for justice-involved people, and A Prospective New Day, Inc., which publicly reports prior North Carolina Department of Public Safety transitional-housing contracts and multiple reentry homes in Guilford County. Each organization’s current facility, staffing, licensure, geographic and RFP-specific compliance must still be verified before treating it as fully eligible.
Next Action
Qualified providers should retrieve the authenticated State Sourcing Tool package, verify the full required response checklist and any addenda, confirm facility and staff compliance, and submit before the September 25 deadline. No applicant outreach should occur until organization-specific eligibility, recipient identity, Email Opt-Out status and global deduplication are confirmed and the mandatory Atlas outreach package can be rendered correctly.
Controlling public source: North Carolina eVP Solicitation Details.