Specifications include, but are not limited to: Offeror is to evaluate the out-of-home care system for the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) and make a plan to improve the outcomes and the reporting of those outcomes. Offeror will aid DCBS in strengthening their capacity of organizational and community systems to provide safety and permanency for abused and neglected children and their families. Offeror will develop and enact timely processes using multi-system, organizational assessments to address gaps within the current out-of-home care system. They will use the facilitation process to build on the established partnerships of the care system. Offeror’s primary goal is to advance the development and use of knowledge, resources, tools and best practices that support outcome development, organizational excellence, quality management, and effective service delivery systems. These strategies of improvements will include use of evidence-based research and data through curriculum development and training; the actual collaborative, facilitated development of preferred child outcomes; facilitationtoidentifycurrentservicesgapsandthreatstoKentucky’scurrentout-of-home care system; the change and the development of reporting mechanisms; and discussion/dissemination points for continued learning.