Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. The Department requires the Contractor to provide all necessary personnel, services, and otherwise do all things necessary for, or incidental to, establishing pilot sites for a Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program – Technology Assisted Treatment (COAPTAT) for clients who have used or abused opioids and are returning to a rural county or nonurban areas surrounding one of the four cities (Amarillo, Longview, Odessa, and Texarkana) listed in the nation’s top 25 cities identified as having opioid abusers. Texas counties may include, but are not limited to: Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cook, Delta, Ector, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Gregg, Harrison, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Jasper, Kaufman, Lamar, Marion, Midland, Morris, Navarro, Nacogdoches, Newton, Nueces, Panola, Polk, Potter, Red River, Rockwall, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Titus, Trinity, Tyler, and Upshur. B. The Department is soliciting for new providers of technology assisted treatment. C. The Department shall provide the equipment and technology assisted products needed to provide the COAPTAT services. D. The Contractor shall provide services in compliance with applicable rules, regulations, policies, procedures and laws. E. The Contractor shall provide technology assisted treatment to expand the continuum of care for clients who need quality programming for opioid abuse, but lack the resources (i.e. transportation, recovery support) to obtain the services. F. Eligible clients shall be those with an identified opioid use referred by the Department who participated in an in-prison substance use treatment program that do not have access to an aftercare program to meet their recovery needs after release. Eligible clients will also include clients who may not meet the in-prison substance use treatment program requirements but are in need of outpatient substance use treatment and do not have the resources to do so (i.e. transportation). G. The Contractor shall utilize web-based behavioral interventions. Web-based interventions shall be offered as a “stand-alone treatment” delivered over a structured period of time (i.e., 12 weeks) via technology.