Public Health Services At the Local and Regional Level

The purpose of this Request for Response (RFR) is to establish a pre-qualified list of approved vendors, namely local and regional public health entities, to be eligible for potential future funding from the Department of Public Health (DPH). This approach will provide a simplified process for eligible entities to access DPH funding and consolidate multiple sources of funding from DPH. Similarly, through this RFR, DPH is looking to establish a vehicle to support the Commonwealth’s eligible entities and create a more efficient process for how certain funding is distributed. Future activities will provide funding to these entities to strengthen capacity across local, regional, and tribal public health officials and their respective agencies. Because each eligible entity has its own unique needs and areas for growth, capacity will be broadly defined to include, but not be limited to: training, staffing, specialty programming, shared service arrangements, coordination enhancement across eligible entities infrastructure improvement, equipment procurement and/or upgrades, IT modernization, assessment and evaluation, and other related services.