OpenAtlas Opportunity Score 66/100
South Dakota Rural Health Data Atlas — Informatics Services RFP 26RFP-27-09RHT-025
FundingNot publicly disclosed; hourly rate-card staffing procurement
DeadlineSeptember 28, 2026; current indexing reports 12:00 PM, but confirm the controlling ESM package before submission
Last verified2026-09-12
Required next actionKeep published while open; monitor ESM for amendments/deadline changes; re-evaluate N9+/QC only if scope expands into clinical telehealth, connected examination, healthcare service delivery, or equipment.
Broad Eligibility
Qualified contractors able to furnish data-science and public-health-informatics staffing meeting the solicitation education, experience, availability, background-check, reference, rate-card, and insurance requirements.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 66/100. N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 5/100. QC Healthcare Fit: 0/100. This is a direct vendor procurement in a generic sense, but not a legitimate N9+/QC Path A capture because the requested scope is professional data-science and public-health-informatics staffing rather than connected physical-exam hardware, telehealth clinical services, patient care, RPM, or QC physician coverage. No applicant/entity outreach is required under the universal outreach rule because N9+ and QC Healthcare cannot presently be lawfully and materially included in the verified scope. No Marc direct-vendor alert.
South Dakota Department of Health is soliciting contractual staffing support for the Rural Health Data Atlas in data science and public health informatics. The procurement covers health-data ingestion, curation, integration, metadata and data-dictionary work, governance and privacy controls, automated data processes, dashboard and reporting support, federal grant reporting, technical assistance, and stakeholder communication.
The current procurement record identifies a September 8, 2026 Letter of Intent and written-inquiry date, with proposals due September 28, 2026. Current procurement indexing reports 12:00 PM for the deadline, while some downstream indexes display September 29 because of time-zone normalization; the controlling ESM solicitation package governs the exact submission time.
This is a professional data-science and public-health-informatics staffing procurement. It does not currently provide a defensible N9+ connected-exam, QC Healthcare clinical-coverage, telehealth-service, patient-care, or equipment pathway.
Official source: South Dakota ESM Posting Board — Event 19948
Source verificationReferenced source · postingboard.esmsolutions.comAtlas last verified this record 2026-09-12. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗