Opportunity Overview
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services is accepting qualifications under DHHS91021 Family Based Level 4 Foster and Professional Parent Services, an open-ended RFSQ that creates an Approved Vendor List for qualified providers. DHHS describes the service population as including persons with problematic sexual behaviors, substance use disorders, and behavioral or mental health diagnoses.
Deadline and Funding
The current Utah DHHS opportunity page does not publish a fixed closing date or time, total funding pool, or universal contract ceiling. DHHS links an established rate schedule effective July 1, 2026. Vendors should verify the current U3P questions, answers, and addenda before submitting.
Qualifications
The current DHHS evaluation score sheet treats the mandatory minimum requirements as pass/fail. Depending on the service code selected, an offeror must hold a current Utah Division of Licensing and Background Checks Child Placing Foster Care license together with an Outpatient Treatment or Day Treatment license, or a Residential Support License for the applicable DAC service. The score sheet also requires completed Attachments A-D, a qualifying CETW contracting or subcontracting relationship for minimally mentoring and additional staffing, a W-9 and Conflict of Interest Disclosure, a program manual and organizational chart, treatment-model documentation, a sample treatment plan, placement-family training and onboarding information, and additional service-code-specific home, staff, certification, and experience evidence.
Submission
Responses are submitted by email under the official DHHS application instructions. Utah DHHS expressly states that responses must not be submitted through U3P. Questions and controlling addenda should be checked through the linked state procurement Q&A process.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 84/100. This is a durable Utah human-services contracting pathway for appropriately licensed foster-care and professional-parent providers.
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. The solicitation purchases licensed human services and foster/professional-parent capacity, not remote physical-examination technology. N9+ should not be force-fit.
QC Healthcare Fit: 0/100. No verified QC Healthcare licensure, foster-care provider infrastructure, or service-code qualification is established for this scope.
Dr. Miltie direct pursuit: No Bid.
Verified source: Utah Department of Health and Human Services Purchasing, DHHS91021 and linked current evaluation materials.