ACF Office of Government Contracting Services

Release: Jul 24, 2025

Close: Aug 12, 2025

Among the various PPE items required, laboratory coats are one of the most important. Lab coats serve as the first line of defense against hazards such as chemical splashes, biological contaminants, and other laboratory hazards. Lab coats protect both the wearer and the integrity of experiments by helping prevent cross-contamination.

Release: Jul 31, 2024

Close: Aug 15, 2024

Effect of prenatal alcohol and other drug programs on faster care prevention & rapid reunification: lived experience views research project. Work under this contract is focused to learn more about the best ways to support families in which children have been prenatally exposed to substance abuse, alcohol in particular, and to learn ways of preventing them from entering foster care, or, when that is not possible, to ensure rapid, safe reunification of the family when possible. This includes all children, including Tribal members. An important but missing piece of research evidence is the perspectives of families with lived experience of the child welfare system.

Release: Mar 18, 2025

Close: Mar 26, 2025

Secure care is the most restrictive level of care for UAC and is designated for those UAC who have been charged with or convicted of a criminal offense, are chargeable with such an offense, or whose alleged conduct poses a threat to self or others. A secure facility is a licensed facility that is locked with a no-climb fence or one that is identified as a secure juvenile detention facility. For example, no-climb fencing as opposed to concertina wire and offers internal mechanisms and controls to manage violent behaviors. The determination of which UAC meets secure care placement criteria is made by ORR, and assignment of physical custody to a secure care provider facility is made as immediately as possible by ORR. Secure levels of care are licensed in their respective state to operate as a secure facility that houses juveniles with issues surrounding violence and criminal behavior. See attached file.