The Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Tobacco Free Florida, is accepting applications for RFA 26-004, Community-Based Tobacco Prevention Interventions, FY 2027-2028. The program funds community-level policy and systems-change work intended to reduce tobacco use and exposure, with particular attention to low-income populations, youth, and young adults.
Funding: $897,948 is available across six Florida counties: DeSoto, Dixie, Gilchrist, Highlands, Indian River, and Okeechobee. The RFA anticipates approximately one award per county, with county-specific allocations identified in the solicitation.
Deadline: October 14, 2026 by 5:00 PM EDT. Written questions are due September 16, 2026 by 2:00 p.m. EDT to RequestforApplication@flhealth.gov, with answers anticipated September 23, 2026. Applicants are responsible for checking the Vendor Bid System and issuer page for updates.
Match: Applicants must provide an annual match equal to 7% of the annual grant funding amount. The RFA allows qualifying private expenditures, unrecovered indirect costs, in-kind services or human resources, office support, and other tangible support or cost offsets to contribute to the match.
Eligibility and scope: Eligible organizations must be able to deliver the required county-level tobacco-prevention program, including policy and systems-change work, Community Tobacco Free Partnership activities, youth engagement through Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT), and related tobacco-prevention infrastructure. Applicants should review the county allocation and staffing requirements in the RFA before selecting a county.
Application package: Applications must use the Department’s official forms. The completed packet must be combined into a single PDF in the required order and uploaded electronically. Required components include the cover page, main application template, required attachments, four letters of support, organizational chart, staff resumes, drug-free-workplace certification, and tobacco-free-staff certification. The uploaded application PDF may not exceed 5 MB. Separate applications are required for separate counties.
Source-control note: The RFA states an anticipated grant start date of January 1, 2027, while another project-period provision in the solicitation has been flagged by Atlas as internally inconsistent. Applicants should rely on any subsequent Department addendum or Q&A rather than silently resolving the inconsistency.
Atlas assessment: Atlas Opportunity Score 60/100. N9+ Fit Score 4/100. This is primarily a tobacco-policy, coalition, youth-programming, and systems-change grant rather than a clinical-care or telehealth procurement, so Atlas should not force the Nonagon N9+ into the project. QC Healthcare/Dr. Miltie fit is also low. Dr. Miltie is not advanced as a direct applicant because the mandatory 7% match has not been approved and the specialized tobacco-policy/community-coalition staffing and experience required by the RFA have not been established.