Opportunity Overview
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health, maintains an active Willing & Qualified contracting pathway for Court Ordered Parental Assessments. CT NOI 0620260496 covers the current service from August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2028.
Service Scope
The State Forensic Service oversees court-ordered parenting-capacity evaluations in child-maltreatment cases. The evaluations must be conducted by licensed psychologists and/or psychiatrists, and the State Forensic Service is responsible for ensuring that examiners are qualified.
Qualification Requirements
The PJF describes qualified contractors as forensic mental-health evaluators with doctoral-level training, typically a Ph.D. or Psy.D., followed by years of specialty training and experience in forensic mental-health assessment. Any provider must also be approved by the State Forensic Service and accepted by the courts as an expert.
Current Funding and Source-Data Quality
The PJF headline lists $837,688 for the contracting action. Its attached provider schedule visibly lists four incumbent agreements at $108,000 each, totaling $432,000, while the same attachment states “Total Items 5.” Atlas preserves this State-published inconsistency and does not invent a fifth provider or reconcile the two funding totals without authoritative clarification.
The visible incumbent providers are William M Barter, Taylor York, Danielle Rynczak, and North Forensic & Psychological Services. They are treated as incumbent contractors, not unsent applicants for this exact opportunity.
Atlas Relevance
This is a legitimate behavioral-health and forensic-evaluation contracting pathway, but the current PJF does not establish telehealth, remote-exam technology, diagnostic-device, or N9+ costs as allowable. Dr. Miltie does not appear to be a viable direct prime provider because the required licensed psychologist/psychiatrist credentials, doctoral forensic training, State Forensic Service approval, and court-expert acceptance are not established for Dr. Miltie, LLC.
Next Action
Preserve the named providers as incumbents. For any prospective additional evaluator, verify current professional licensure, doctoral and forensic qualifications, State Forensic Service approval, court-expert acceptance, W&Q availability, and funding availability before applying canonical CRM, Atlas_Email_Queue, Email Opt-Out, sent-history, reply, bounce, deadline, approval, and exact-opportunity deduplication controls.
Official source: Maine Division of Procurement Services, CT NOI 0620260496.