Funding Watch Overview
Upcoming — not yet open. The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) currently lists Crisis Stabilization Centers among its planned procurement opportunities for the second quarter of State Fiscal Year 2026-27, covering July 1 through September 30, 2026. OMH states that the procurement schedule is tentative and subject to change. As of September 4, 2026, the agency’s live procurement page does not yet list a controlling Crisis Stabilization Centers RFP, application deadline, funding pool, award ceiling or applicant-specific eligibility rules.
Why Atlas Is Tracking It
New York’s Crisis Stabilization Centers are part of the state’s comprehensive crisis-response continuum. OMH describes these centers as voluntary, person-centered, trauma-informed programs available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to children, adolescents, adults and families experiencing mental-health or substance-use crisis symptoms. Centers coordinate with mobile crisis providers, law enforcement, telephone triage lines and community treatment and support services.
OMH distinguishes Supportive Crisis Stabilization Centers, which provide help and support for crisis symptoms that do not present a likelihood of serious harm, from Intensive Crisis Stabilization Centers, which provide urgent treatment for acute mental-health or substance-use crises, support diversion from higher levels of care and may include medication management.
Funding and Deadline
Funding Watch: OMH has not yet published the funding amount, number of awards, contract term, per-applicant ceiling or submission deadline for this planned procurement. Atlas will not carry forward dollar amounts, eligibility rules or deadlines from earlier crisis-center procurements unless OMH expressly incorporates them into the new solicitation.
Who May Be Eligible
Applicant eligibility is not yet verified. OMH’s general procurement program supports not-for-profit organizations, local governmental units and other organizations, but the controlling Crisis Stabilization Centers solicitation has not yet been released. Organizations should not assume eligibility until OMH publishes the specific RFP and Statewide Financial System requirements.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 94/100. This is a high-priority behavioral-health infrastructure and crisis-care Funding Watch because OMH has placed Crisis Stabilization Centers on its current procurement schedule and the service model is central to New York’s statewide crisis continuum.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 25/100 conditional. Crisis stabilization is clinically intensive, but OMH has not yet established a connected-exam, telehealth-equipment or remote-diagnostic procurement pathway in the forthcoming solicitation. N9+ should not be positioned until the RFP confirms an allowable technology use case.
QC Healthcare Fit: 35/100 conditional. Intensive centers provide urgent clinical treatment, but Atlas will not infer that contracted physician coverage is an allowable or needed budget item before the RFP publishes staffing and service requirements.
Immediate Next Step
Behavioral-health providers, hospitals, crisis-service operators, local governmental units and potential technology or clinical partners should monitor OMH’s procurement page for issuance of the controlling RFP. Once released, Atlas should immediately verify the funding pool, eligible applicants, geographic priorities, licensure requirements, staffing model, allowable technology and clinical-service costs, Statewide Financial System requirements, deadline and any bidder-conference or question deadlines.
Official sources: New York State Office of Mental Health — Upcoming Procurement Opportunities; New York State Office of Mental Health — Comprehensive Crisis Response System.