Opportunity Overview
Polk County Public Health and the Polk County Opioid Settlement Advisory Council are accepting third-round proposals for high-impact projects responding to the opioid epidemic in Polk County, Minnesota. The county identifies prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction as the core response strategies and gives particular attention to communities that have been disproportionately affected.
Funding and Deadline
The county has $275,000 total available and may select multiple applicants. An individual project may request up to $100,000. Funded work is intended for the January 1 through December 31, 2027 project period. Proposals are due September 25, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. The official Polk County notice publishes the date and clock time but does not state a time zone, so applicants should confirm the filing time zone with the county rather than infer one.
Eligibility and Application Controls
The official public notice establishes that proposals must support opioid-response work in Polk County, but the linked current RFP application could not be retrieved through the available automated path during this verification. Atlas therefore does not infer the current applicant classes, match or cost-share requirements, detailed eligible or ineligible costs, required attachments, qualifications, reference requirements, evaluation criteria, submission method, or amendment/FAQ terms. Those items must be confirmed from the current county application before an organization is treated as eligible or an outreach package is advanced.
Strategic Fit
Atlas Opportunity Score: 90/100. This is meaningful local healthcare and behavioral-health funding with a clear opioid-response purpose, a substantial countywide pool and a defined 2027 project period.
N9+ Fit: 45/100 conditional. A remote physical examination platform could be relevant only when it is legitimately integrated into an allowable treatment, recovery, clinical-access or related opioid-response strategy and the current RFP and Minnesota opioid-settlement requirements permit the associated costs. Atlas does not treat this as a general telehealth-device grant and will not force N9+ into the project.
QC Healthcare Fit: 25/100 conditional. Healthcare services may be relevant within treatment or recovery strategies, but no QC-specific role is established by the public notice.
Dr. Miltie direct-applicant/vendor fit: not verified. The current application eligibility and procurement/vendor rules must be reviewed before Dr. Miltie, LLC could legitimately apply, bid, contract or participate as a vendor.
Next Action
Retrieve and review the current Polk County RFP application before advancing any applicant. Confirm current eligibility, allowable and prohibited costs, match/cost share, required forms and attachments, scoring, submission method, contacts, amendments and FAQs; map the project to prevention, treatment, recovery or harm reduction and the controlling Minnesota opioid-settlement framework. For application or cutoff questions, the county identifies Sarah Shimek at sarah.shimek@polkcountymn.gov.
Verified sources: Polk County Opioid Settlement Advisory Council page and Polk County’s July 15, 2026 third-round RFP news release. Last verified September 12, 2026.