Opportunity Overview
Maine DHHS, Office of Behavioral Health, has a Willing & Qualified service record for a county-based Co-Responder: Post Overdose Response Team SFY27 model running from September 30, 2026 through September 29, 2027. The Maine W&Q table labels CT NOI 0820260631 as “OPTIONS Liaisons,” but the controlling PJF narrative and provider addendum describe a post-overdose SUD co-responder service. Atlas preserves that State-source discrepancy rather than treating the table label as the service identity.
Service Scope
The PJF calls for licensed or certified SUD/dual-diagnosis clinicians embedded with law-enforcement agencies in Maine counties. Services include OUD/SUD overdose response, assessment, behavioral-health crisis de-escalation, referral to community treatment, system navigation, short-term counseling, recovery-capital support, Medicaid application assistance for uninsured people, and proactive referrals from first responders or community SUD providers.
Current Funding and Providers
The addendum lists $3,519,804.00 across four incumbent providers: Spurwink Services ($358,800), Sweetser ($2,278,474), Community Health & Counseling Services ($320,408), and Aroostook Mental Health Services ($562,122).
Qualification and Source-Control Note
The State says the providers have established law-enforcement relationships through crisis-intervention work and clinical oversight structures, and characterizes the service as willing and qualified rather than competitively procured. The master W&Q table shows a posting start and end date of August 28, 2026 even though the PJF describes a September 30, 2026 to September 29, 2027 contract term. Because those State dates conflict, Atlas does not infer that new-provider intake is presently open without direct confirmation from the contract administrator.
Atlas Relevance
This pathway is highly relevant to behavioral health, overdose response, dual-diagnosis care, crisis intervention, and community treatment navigation. The PJF references IT-associated costs in negotiated pricing, but it does not establish remote diagnostic devices, telehealth equipment, or N9+ cost allowability. The licensed-clinician and law-enforcement embedded-service requirements do not establish a direct-prime Dr. Miltie path.
Next Action
Treat the four named organizations as incumbents. Do not initiate applicant outreach until DHHS confirms whether additional willing-and-qualified providers can currently enter this service despite the master-table posting-date discrepancy. Any future outreach must pass current eligibility, contact verification, CRM, Atlas_Email_Queue, opt-out, sent-history, reply, bounce, approval, deadline, and exact-opportunity deduplication controls.
Official source: Maine Division of Procurement Services, CT NOI 0820260631.