Opportunity Overview
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), through the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, has an open solicitation for Development and Implementation of Student Wellness, SEL, and Mental Health Programming, solicitation 163-163-09012026TB. The official North Carolina eVP record remains Open and describes a comprehensive, evidence-based student wellness, social emotional learning (SEL), and mental-health initiative.
Scope of Work
The selected vendor is expected to serve as a strategic district partner across five core workstreams: district systems development, including an SEL/student-wellness framework and multi-year roadmap; school implementation support, including principal/wellness-team coaching, data-review meetings, continuous-improvement planning, and MTSS alignment; professional learning for educators, including classroom support, PLC facilitation, SEL instructional integration, and trauma-informed practices; student wellness programming, including leadership initiatives, wellness campaigns, family workshops, assemblies, and SEL awareness activities; and evaluation and continuous improvement, including quarterly progress reports and annual impact reports.
Deadline and Submission
Procurement-document indexing reports proposals due September 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time through the electronic vendor portal. The same indexed materials report that vendor questions were due September 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time and that no pre-bid meeting is scheduled. The current public read-only eVP page confirms Open status but does not render the deadline fields to Atlas; therefore any bidder should confirm the exact cutoff in the authenticated/live eVP package immediately before submission.
Contract Term and Value
The initial contract term is three years, beginning on final contract execution or January 1, 2027, whichever is later, with up to two additional one-year renewals. The accessible controlling and indexed materials do not state an authoritative contract ceiling or guaranteed spend. Atlas excludes third-party AI value estimates from the applicant-relevant value. Grant-style match or cost share is not applicable to this service procurement.
Bidder Eligibility and Requirements
Vendors must demonstrate experience serving public or private clients comparable in size and complexity to CMBE, identify qualified personnel assigned to the work, and satisfy the solicitation’s insurance requirements, including general liability and professional errors-and-omissions coverage. The program also requires compliance with district safety/background-check expectations for personnel working on school property and the other certifications contained in the live solicitation package.
Required Forms and Attachments
Accessible solicitation indexing identifies a standardized cost proposal, customer-reference information, financial-condition certification, independent-price-determination and debarment/lobbying certifications, supplier-diversity/M/W/SBE documentation, and school-site safety/background-check compliance among the submission requirements. The public eVP attachment pane is currently permission-blocked, and one indexing service reports multiple published solicitation documents without exposing the complete official checklist. Atlas therefore does not represent this as a complete form-by-form package. A bidder must retrieve the authenticated eVP solicitation and verify every required execution page, certification, pricing form, attachment, and any return-required addendum before filing.
Procurement Contact
Anthony A. Becker, Director of Procurement, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, is identified in current solicitation indexing as the procurement contact at anthonya.becker@cms.k12.nc.us and 980-343-6390.
Atlas Fit Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 86/100. This is a large-district, multi-year school mental-health and student-wellness procurement with a clear implementation, professional-learning, family-engagement, MTSS, and evaluation scope. The score is moderated because the authoritative public eVP interface does not expose the full attachment/addendum package or contract value through read-only access.
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. Atlas does not force a device fit. The solicitation is for districtwide SEL, mental-health programming, implementation support, professional learning, student leadership/wellness activities, and program evaluation. It is not a telehealth, remote physical-examination, connected-diagnostic, or clinical-device procurement.
Realistic Organizations to Evaluate
Panorama Education is a realistic vendor type because it publicly provides district-level professional development and strategic advising around whole-child/student-success data and supports SEL, school climate, and MTSS-related work in large school systems. CharacterStrong is another realistic vendor type because it offers evidence-based PK-12 curriculum, professional development, MTSS supports, and a specific large-urban-district implementation model. Neither organization is represented here as fully responsive until it verifies every CMS technical, staffing, insurance, reference, pricing, registration, and certification requirement in the live RFP.
Dr. Miltie / QC Healthcare Direct-Vendor Review
Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare is not advanced as a direct bidder. Available records do not substantiate the district-scale SEL curriculum/program-development capability, educator professional-learning platform, MTSS implementation bench, youth leadership programming, and comparable K-12 past performance required for a credible prime response. No Zoho Deal, WorkDrive applicant folder, attachment package, or outreach email is warranted from this opportunity.
Amendment and Source Control
The official eVP record is Open, but its public read-only Attachments and Addenda panes currently return permission errors. Atlas therefore does not assert that no amendments exist. The authenticated/live eVP package is controlling and must be checked immediately before submission.
Controlling source: North Carolina eVP Solicitation Details.
CMS procurement source: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Current Bid Opportunities.