The Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) has opened a Request for Information to build an Attendance Support vendor resource list for schools identified for Comprehensive School Improvement (CSI) under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Opportunity: Attendance Improvement Support Services for Comprehensive School Improvement (CSI) Schools, OPI-RFI-2027-0182.
Schedule: the RFI opened September 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM MDT and responses close September 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM MDT.
Purpose: OPI is seeking information from vendors that provide evidence-based attendance-improvement services. The resulting resource list may be used by Montana CSI schools when selecting vendors to strengthen attendance systems, reduce chronic absenteeism, improve student engagement and increase student achievement.
Opportunity type: this is an RFI and vendor-resource-list process, not a grant award or a promise of a contract. The current public event export does not state a funding or contract amount.
Public procurement details: the event lists educational materials, services, testing and training commodity codes and identifies Gwenette Ungerman at Gwenette.Ungerman2@mt.gov as the solicitation contact. The event also lists one buyer attachment, RFI Attendance.docx, which prospective respondents should obtain in eMACS before relying on the public summary.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 78/100 for a current statewide K-12 vendor-intelligence opportunity with a defined response window and direct relevance to CSI attendance systems.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 5/100. The verified public RFI summary does not establish a school-health, telehealth, remote-examination or connected-clinical-technology scope.
QC Healthcare Fit: 0/100 based on the currently verified public materials. Atlas is not treating this as a Dr. Miltie TRUE Path A pursuit unless the controlling RFI attachment establishes a lawful, substantive N9+ and/or QC attendance-improvement role.