Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Maine Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is the state public health agency. Within Maine CDC, the Division of Chronic Disease (DCD) provides essential public health programs related to a range of chronic diseases and across the spectrum from prevention to clinical supports and self management. The DCD frequently administers federal grants, as well as funding from other state, federal and private sources, that demand a rapid expansion of capacity beyond the existing capacity within DCD programs. Typically the expanded projects whether as short as several months or as long as several years, are time-limited due to a finite grant period and thus do not warrant additional permanent state staff positions. As a result, DCD programs frequently rely on external contractors to provide the expanded capacity needed to carry out such grant-funded work. Due to the volume of such projects, it is impractical and inefficient for the DCD to design a new RFP for each and every contract of this type. In order to meet the goal of ensuring competitive bidding without slowing down project timelines with individual RFPs for every project, this RFP is designed to create a list of "Pre-Qualified Bidders" - organizations who can demonstrate in advance that they have the ability to provide expanded capacity for the DCD programs within one or more categories of functions that are most likely to be needed over the next five years as funds become available for different state level projects. This RFP offers an annual enrollment process, with proposals accepted and reviewed once per year for organizations to be added to the list and/or to alter the conditions of a previously accepted proposal.
