Marin County Health and Human Services is accepting proposals for Adult/Youth Homeless Outreach Teams, RFP-HHS-2026-10. The procurement seeks one or more qualified providers to operate coordinated housing-focused outreach teams for adults experiencing unsheltered homelessness across Marin County and a countywide youth and young adult team serving unaccompanied youth ages 12 to 17 and transition-age youth ages 18 to 24.
Deadline: September 28, 2026 by 3:00 PM PST, exactly as published by the County. Amendment #1, issued August 31, 2026, corrected a scoring-tool deadline typo, corrected the Attachment A control number, and removed the prior requirement stating proposals must be submitted via email PDF.
Funding: The County identifies up to $1,659,198 in annual funding, prorated for the first fiscal year, across four adult geographic outreach teams and one countywide youth and young adult team. Funding sources include AB 109, Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention, Behavioral Health Services Act Housing Interventions, and Behavioral Health Services Act Full-Service Partnership funds. Applicants may propose one or more components, and the County may make one or multiple awards. The initial award covers the remainder of fiscal year 2026-27, with potential renewals for up to two additional one-year periods subject to County approval and funding.
Eligible proposer profile: The RFP invites organizations with demonstrated experience in housing-focused street outreach, housing navigation, and persistent engagement with people experiencing homelessness, including youth and young adults where applicable. Minimum qualifications include Coordinated Entry assessment and support capability; harm-reduction and overdose-prevention practices including naloxone and linkage to substance-use-disorder and medication-assisted-treatment services; warm handoffs; consent and confidentiality practices; accurate use of County data systems including HMIS and WIZARD; field safety and crisis protocols; language and cultural capability, including at least one Spanish-fluent outreach worker per team; legal authorization to do business in California; appropriate permits and certifications; fiscal capacity and fund accounting; federal-funds eligibility; and required reporting and outcome-data capacity.
Behavioral-health requirements: Behavioral Health Services Act-funded contractors must participate in applicable Medi-Cal behavioral-health delivery requirements, assist eligible clients with enrollment, and bill Medi-Cal and commercial insurance when applicable. Applicants must also satisfy the County’s insurance, licensing, audit, privacy, and subcontracting requirements. Subcontracting requires prior County approval.
Required proposal materials: The amended packet requires a signed Attachment A cover page; an Applicant Capability narrative subject to the RFP’s five-page limit per Program Proposal; Attachment B budget information; signed Attachment E Non-Collusion Affidavit; an organizational chart; at least two references, including at least one prior funder able to address government-funding administration capacity; and letters of commitment from proposed subcontractors or formal collaborators. Applicants without prior government-grant administration history must document how they will establish the required capacity. Additional youth and young adult service-model information is required for applicants proposing that component.
Submission: Amendment #1 removed the legacy email-PDF submission requirement. The amended RFP directs proposers to submit electronically through BidExpress or in person according to the solicitation instructions. Proposers should review the full amended packet before filing and must acknowledge the applicable amendment with their proposal package.
Match/cost share: No mandatory match or cost-share percentage was identified in the amended RFP. The solicitation does require sufficient non-County resources to cover costs disallowed through audit and requires the proposer to certify that it can carry project costs for at least 60 days during the contract; these are financial-capacity requirements rather than a stated matching requirement.
N9+ Fit Score: 8/100. This is primarily a homeless-outreach and behavioral-health services procurement, not a medical-device or remote-examination procurement. No direct role for the Nonagon N9+ device and platform is established by the solicitation. Any future technology role would need to arise from a proposer-defined, County-approved service model and comply with procurement, clinical, privacy, reimbursement, and subcontracting requirements.
Direct-vendor classification: No direct Dr. Miltie or QC Healthcare prime-bid path is established. Prime eligibility would require verified homelessness-outreach experience, Coordinated Entry and HMIS/WIZARD capability, harm-reduction and MAT-linkage operations, government-funding administration, required staffing and Spanish-language coverage, Marin service capacity, insurance, references, and all other mandatory qualifications. Do not infer those qualifications.
Official source: County of Marin RFP-HHS-2026-10.