Summary
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is soliciting bids for its DART Cares Multi-Disciplinary Response Team (MDRT) program, an expansion of the agency's ongoing social-responsibility effort to support riders experiencing homelessness and mental-health crises on DART buses, trains, and platforms. The solicitation seeks a long-term service provider to embed qualified mental-health clinicians alongside DART Police, following a committee recommendation at DART's September 2025 Committee-of-the-Whole meeting to formally procure the program's next phase. The award is intended to deliver multi-year funding for the program's 24/7 layered safety strategy, replacing or supplementing the existing five-month extension with Parkland Health.