Opportunity Overview
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is considering a sole-source contract with Northwest Mother’s Milk Bank under solicitation DPHHS-SolSour-2027-0698DS. Public procurement materials state that vendors able to provide equivalent services may respond through Montana eMACS.
Deadline
The response date is September 11, 2026. A current public mirror of the Montana eMACS event reports 12:00 AM MDT as the closing time. The controlling eMACS sourcing-event page currently requires vendor login, so Atlas preserves that access limitation rather than representing the mirror as a directly reviewed official event document.
Scope
DPHHS is considering Northwest Mother’s Milk Bank for donor-human-milk services. Montana DPHHS separately identifies Northwest Mother’s Milk Bank as the nonprofit organization that assumed Mothers Milk Bank of Montana operations and distributes safely pasteurized donor human milk to Montana hospitals and outpatient programs for medically vulnerable infants.
Funding
The public materials reviewed do not state a contract ceiling or guaranteed value. Atlas does not infer one.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 57/100. This is a live Montana maternal-and-infant-health procurement notice, but it is an intent-to-sole-source event with a very short response window and requires truly equivalent donor-milk capability.
N9+ Fit: 0/100. The verified scope is donor human milk collection, processing and distribution rather than remote physical examination, telehealth diagnostics, RPM or clinical-device procurement. Dr. Miltie Direct Applicant/Vendor Fit: 0/100. Atlas is not advancing a direct response without evidence that Dr. Miltie can legitimately satisfy the specialized milk-bank requirements.
Outreach Status
No new applicant or vendor outreach should be initiated because the opportunity is already inside Atlas’s 48-hour outreach cutoff.
Source
Controlling system: Montana eMACS, solicitation DPHHS-SolSour-2027-0698DS. The exact event page is vendor-login controlled; Atlas verified the active event identifier and cross-checked current public procurement mirrors.