The Asian American Health Initiative (AAHI) is excited to announce a funding opportunity for qualified Offerors to provide health and wellness educational services for Asian American communities. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is soliciting bids for the procurement of health and wellness educational services for Asian American Communities funding opportunities that meet the criteria listed in the solicitation.  CBO and FBOs serving the Asian American community or have interest in working Asian American communities are encouraged to apply. Please see below/attached for details for this informal solicitation, or click the following link to view the solicitation posting online: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/HHS-Program/Resources/Files/OCOO/CMTSol/1124002packet.pdf

Informal #: 1124002
Informal Title: Health and Wellness Educational Services for Asian American Communities Funding Opportunities
Posting Dates/Times: Between 10/30/2020 12:00:00 AM and 12/4/2020 3:00:00 PM
Scope of Work: SCOPE OF SERVICE

  • The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of Community Affairs’ Asian American Health Initiative is seeking qualified, responsible and experienced service providers/organizations/entities to provide health and wellness educational services to assist Asian Americans to live healthier and more holistic lives.
  • The educational activities must be designed to enable participants to learn about various topics pertinent to Asian Americans that fall within the following categories: disease prevention and management, mental health, and other wellness topics.
  • The Contractor must deliver content of educational activity in preferred language(s) of the community, such as Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Nepalese, Sinhala, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
  • The County is using the Informal Solicitation procurement process to contract with up to 20 successful Offerors, who will then be required to respond to Task Order Proposal Requests (TOPR) to be issued by the County. The annual compensation for each winning Task Order will not exceed $5,000 contingent upon annual fiscal appropriations and encumbrance of funding for the services described in this Solicitation.
  • Upon completion of the educational activity, the Contractor must complete the Outreach Outcomes and Evaluations Report (template is provided) and invoice for costs incurred.

 

MINIMUM CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS

  • The Contractor must have a minimum of 2 years of experience delivering one or more culturally- and linguistically competent services to ethnically and economically diverse Asian American communities
  • The Contractor must assign a Project Director who will coordinate and manage the project’s planning, participant recruitment, implementation, and evaluation efforts.
  • Health and wellness educational activities must be facilitated by trained and certified or licensed healthcare/public health/other professionals (MD, DO, NP, RN, RD, CHES, CHW, etc.) in a culturally- and linguistically competent manner for a specified target audience.