Opportunity Overview
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has issued RFP SI 2026-021 — Puuhonua Reentry Program. The procurement seeks a qualified firm to establish and implement a practical, culturally grounded reentry bridge model for Native Hawaiian participants transitioning from incarceration back into the community.
The scope expressly addresses fragmented service delivery and insufficient support at release through coordinated planning, housing stabilization, healthcare access, behavioral-health connections, employment pathways, cultural reintegration, and post-release case management.
Funding and Deadline
The RFP provides a stated $200,000 budget allocation. Proposals are due through HIePRO on September 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM Hawaiʻi Standard Time. Vendor questions were due September 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM HST, with OHA responses scheduled for September 11. As of September 19, 2026, OHA’s public solicitation page does not display a Q&A or addendum for SI 2026-021; offerors should verify the live HIePRO record for any responses or amendments before submission. The base RFP also contains an internal pricing-structure inconsistency: Section 2 identifies a fixed-price contract, while Section 3 describes a not-to-exceed cost-reimbursement structure for personnel and OF-2 asks for an administrative-fee percentage based on vendor expenditures. Offerors should resolve that point from the live HIePRO record or OHA before pricing.
Healthcare and Behavioral-Health Scope
The required model includes Medicaid or health-coverage enrollment, warm handoffs to service providers, ensuring first health appointments are scheduled within seven days, connection to primary-care providers and behavioral-health services including mental-health and substance-use care, and trauma-informed culturally grounded healing approaches. One stated deliverable is connecting 100% of participants to healthcare within seven days of release.
Who Can Apply
Offerors must satisfy the full procurement requirements. The RFP requires the offeror to be a Hawaiʻi business or a compliant non-Hawaiʻi business registered to do business in the State, maintain a physical office on Oʻahu, and demonstrate a minimum of five years of experience on projects of similar size and nature in Hawaiʻi, along with the required vendor-compliance and proposal documentation.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 86/100. This is a verified healthcare-access and behavioral-health procurement with a defined statewide public-agency source, clear deliverables, and a September response window.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 0/100. QC Healthcare Fit: 15/100 conditional. This is not Path A for Dr. Miltie on currently verified facts because the controlling offeror requirements include an Oʻahu physical office and at least five years of similar Hawaiʻi project experience. The published $200,000 budget is principally staffing, participant support, program operations, cultural services, evaluation, and administration; it does not establish N9+ equipment as a required or allowable core cost. A Path C role should be considered only if an eligible prime identifies a lawful, material clinical-navigation or support subcontract.
Next Action
Qualified firms should review the full RFP and attachments, confirm Hawaiʻi registration and Oʻahu office requirements, document relevant Hawaiʻi reentry experience and cultural competence, and submit a complete HIePRO proposal by September 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM HST.
Official source: Office of Hawaiian Affairs — Solicitations