The South Dakota Department of Health, in coordination with the Bureau of Information and Technology, is soliciting proposals under RFP 26RFP-27-0908002-001, Electronic Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) for a secure, configurable, interoperable and supportable statewide disease-surveillance platform and associated implementation services.
Scope: the selected offeror is expected to provide the EDSS software or platform plus configuration, integration, data migration, reporting and analytics enablement, testing, training, go-live and transition support, and ongoing support. The system must support communicable-disease surveillance, case intake and triage, disease investigation, workflow and task management, laboratory and clinical data exchange, data quality and reconciliation, federal and state reporting, analytics, user administration, role-based access, auditability and secure access for authorized users.
Deadline and submission: the controlling source is South Dakota ESM Posting Board event 19947. Current source mirrors identify the response as due October 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM Central Daylight Time based on the mirrored event timestamp of October 20, 2026 at 04:59 UTC. One secondary source displays October 20 at noon without a clear time-zone basis, so offerors must confirm the exact Schedule of Activities in the official ESM package before submitting. The reported Letter of Intent deadline was September 8, 2026, written inquiries are due September 14, state responses are scheduled for September 28, and the SFTP-folder request deadline is October 5. Proposal submission is by secured file transfer.
Vendor requirements: current solicitation mirrors identify a four-year base term with one optional one-year renewal, South Dakota information-security requirements, a Contractor Security Acknowledgement Form, a detailed Security and Vendor Questionnaire, and insurance requirements including commercial general liability, professional liability, business automobile liability, workers compensation and cyber liability. Current mirrors list cyber liability coverage of $3 million and $1 million limits for several other liability categories. Full qualifications, references, pricing, implementation obligations, security terms and any amendments must be confirmed in the official package.
Funding/value: no official maximum contract value or total procurement value has been independently verified from the controlling package.
Atlas assessment: Atlas Opportunity Score 25/100. N9+ Fit Score 2/100. QC Healthcare Fit 10/100. This is a legitimate statewide public-health IT procurement, but it does not procure remote physical-examination hardware or a clinical-care delivery platform. Because the reported Letter of Intent deadline has already passed and the posting is represented as invitation-only in current procurement mirrors, Atlas classifies this as No Bid / research-only for Dr. Miltie unless prior invitation, timely LOI submission and offeror eligibility are definitively verified.
Published procurement contact: Elizabeth Burdick / Informatics.RFP@state.sd.us. Current RFP instructions require solicitation questions to use the RFP number in the subject line and restrict solicitation communications to the authorized procurement contact.
Official source: South Dakota ESM Posting Board, event 19947.