Opportunity Overview
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health, maintains an active Willing & Qualified contracting pathway for SA Residential Treatment Services: Emergency Shelter, Extended Care & Non-Hospital Based Detox. CT NOI 0720260509 covers the current agreement from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.
Service Scope
The State describes a continuum of substance-use-disorder treatment that includes residential halfway-house services for people with higher-acuity needs. The provider is responsible for individual, group, and family substance-use treatment in a residential milieu, and the current agreement supports 24/7 residential detoxification, shelter, and extended-care services in southern Maine.
Current Funding and Provider
The current PJF lists a contract amount of $1,661,009 for Milestone Foundation in Portland. The State identifies Milestone as the current willing-and-qualified provider for this service in the Portland region and states that other providers there remain in a private-pay model. Milestone is therefore treated as an incumbent, not an unsent applicant for this exact opportunity.
Eligibility and Qualification Requirements
The current record establishes that a provider must be appropriately licensed to operate a substance-abuse program and possess the facility, infrastructure, staffing capacity, and operational ability to deliver the required residential and detoxification services. Additional contracts are not guaranteed merely because the W&Q framework remains active.
Atlas Relevance
This is a legitimate behavioral-health and substance-use-treatment contracting pathway. The controlling PJF does not establish telehealth infrastructure, remote-exam technology, diagnostic-device, or N9+ costs as allowable. Those costs should not be inferred without written DHHS confirmation.
Dr. Miltie does not appear to be a viable direct prime provider under the current record because the prime provider must possess the residential facility, substance-abuse-program licensure, infrastructure, staffing, and service-delivery capacity required for 24/7 residential detoxification and treatment.
Next Action
Preserve Milestone Foundation as the incumbent provider. For any prospective additional provider, first verify current W&Q availability, geographic/service need, licensure, MaineCare reimbursement capability, residential facility capacity, and funding availability with DHHS/OBH. Apply canonical CRM, Atlas_Email_Queue, Email Opt-Out, sent-history, reply, bounce, deadline, approval, and organization+exact-opportunity deduplication controls before any outreach is queued.
Official source: Maine Division of Procurement Services, CT NOI 0720260509.