Opportunity Overview
Leeway, Inc. is seeking a lead planning consultant for Beyond Barriers: Advancing Integrated Care & Housing, a New Haven planning initiative funded by a Connecticut Community Investment Fund planning grant. The selected consultant will coordinate a multidisciplinary planning process for an integrated housing, healthcare, recovery and supportive services continuum serving people with complex medical and social needs.
The RFP was issued August 14, 2026. Proposals are due September 14, 2026. Leeway’s current RFP page does not publish a clock time or time zone, so Atlas does not invent one.
Scope of Work
The lead consultant is expected to coordinate twelve work areas: project management and strategic planning oversight; community needs assessment; community engagement and stakeholder outreach; integrated care continuum design; legal and regulatory assessment; site selection and facility planning; environmental review and due diligence; pre-design, facility programming and schematic design; market and financial feasibility analysis; funding strategy development; economic impact analysis; and a final strategic plan and implementation roadmap.
Published deliverables include needs and community-engagement reports, a service-model framework, legal and environmental memoranda, site-selection and feasibility work, a conceptual space program, schematic design narrative and concept drawings, a financial feasibility study, funding strategy, economic impact assessment, final strategic plan, and implementation roadmap and presentation materials.
Who Should Respond
Leeway seeks firms or multidisciplinary teams with demonstrated experience in integrated healthcare, housing development, behavioral health services, substance use disorder treatment services, community planning, economic development, and capital project planning. A lead firm may use named subcontractors or specialty consultants. The RFP encourages Small Business Enterprises, Minority Business Enterprises, Women Business Enterprises, and firms demonstrating commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and community engagement.
Funding and Contract Terms
The initiative is funded through a Connecticut Community Investment Fund planning grant, but Leeway does not publish the consulting contract amount or a maximum proposal value on the current RFP page. Atlas therefore does not invent a contract value. No proposer match or cost-share requirement is published. Final award remains subject to applicable DECD and CIF requirements.
Proposal Requirements and Submission
Every proposal must include a cover letter, firm profile, relevant experience, project-team resumes, work plan, schedule, budget, hourly rate schedule, three references, insurance information, diversity statement and sample work products. The selected consultant must provide evidence of professional liability, general liability, workers compensation and customary professional insurance coverage before contract execution.
Submit the complete proposal by email to info@leeway.net, attention Jay Katz, Executive Director, no later than September 14, 2026. The issuer does not separately publish a submission time or time zone. The anticipated start date is October 1, 2026.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 72/100. This is a legitimate Connecticut healthcare and supportive-housing professional-services procurement with substantial behavioral-health, recovery, long-term-care and community-health relevance. The score is reduced because the response deadline is the current date, the contract value is not published, and the breadth of planning disciplines makes this primarily a specialized consulting-team opportunity rather than a clinical-technology procurement.
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. The RFP does not seek connected physical-exam technology, remote patient monitoring hardware, or clinical equipment, so Atlas does not force a Nonagon N9+ role. QC Healthcare Fit: 25/100 conditional. QC Healthcare could be relevant only as a narrowly scoped healthcare-design or virtual-care subject-matter subcontractor within a qualified multidisciplinary team; the published RFP does not establish a credible basis to classify QC as the lead planning consultant.
Next Action
The published deadline date is September 14, 2026, and Leeway does not state a clock time or time zone. Firms that are already prepared to respond should confirm that Leeway is still accepting proposals, verify the complete submission against the current RFP page, and email the required materials to info@leeway.net, attention Jay Katz. Atlas does not recommend beginning new cold applicant outreach at this stage.
Official source: Leeway, Inc. Beyond Barriers RFP.