State of Florida Department of Children and Families

State of Florida Department of Children and Families Rick Scott Governor Mike Carroll Secretary REQUEST FOR INFORMATION #23FS16006 Behavioral Health Training for the Child Protective Investigation Professional Lisa Mayrose Regional Managing Director 1. INTRODUCTION This is a Request for Information (RFI) as defined in Section 287.012(22), Florida Statutes, for planning purposes. This RFI is issued by the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families (Department), SunCoast Region, to solicit information regarding available providers for the services described herein. The total estimated dollar amount available, subject to the availability of funds, is $100,000.00, annually. 2. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Listed below are the important actions, dates, and times by which the actions must be taken or completed. All listed times are Eastern Time. DATE TIME ACTION 8/28/2015 5:00 p.m. EST Release of RFI 9/3/2015 5:00 p.m. EST Question Deadline Last date and time written questions will be accepted for this RFI 9/10/2015 5:00 p.m. EST Anticipated date that the answers to the written questions will be posted to the Vendor Bid System (VBS) 9/18/2015 5:00 p.m. EST RFI Responses Due 3. STATEMENT OF NEED The Department is charged with investigating child abuse and neglect. Child Protective Investigators must be well trained in assessing conditions in the home to determine the safety of all children. The Department is seeking information regarding experience and capability of interested parties to develop and deliver a specialty training curriculum designed to enhance the skill sets of the Child Protection Investigator ability to identify, assess and document risks related to behavioral health. 4. PURPOSE The Department is seeking interested parties to deliver, on or before January 1, 2016, a behavioral health training curriculum to Child Protective Investigators, their supervisors, as well as other child welfare professionals, to strengthen and enhance their competencies in identifying, assessing and responding to families regarding behavioral health. SunCoast Region, 9393 North Florida Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33612-7907 Mission: Work in Partnership with Local Communities to Protect the Vulnerable, Promote Strong and Economically Self-Sufficient Families, and Advance Personal and Family Recovery and Resiliency

5. SERVICE TASKS The respondent must be able to demonstrate the availability of expertise, capability and capacity to fulfill the following responsibilities and service tasks: 5.1 Develop, deliver and implement a behavioral health curriculum that trains relevant core competencies and practical skills. 5.1.1 The curriculum shall provide staff with behavioral health competencies, knowledge, skills and abilities needed to identify, assess, and document behavioral health danger threats related to child abuse and neglect. 5.1.2 The curriculum shall include sections designed to develop Subject Matter Experts. 5.1.3 Training shall include clinical observations and a field application of core competencies gained. 5.2 Provide ongoing consultation including onsite and off-site case reviews, as needed. 5.3 Coordinate with the designated DCF contact to organize and schedule trainings and direct, hands-on practice, and to provide documentation of training attendance, satisfaction results and feedback. 5.4 Certify Subject Matter Experts as competent within the scope of the design. 5.5 Provide services to approximately 25-30 staff in the following circuits covering the counties within those circuits: Circuit 12: DeSoto and Sarasota Counties Circuit 20: Charlotte, Collier, Hendry, Glades, and Lee Counties 5.6 Upon successful implementation, this curriculum may be expanded to additional Circuits Statewide. 6. ELIGIBILITY The purpose of this RFI is to request information concerning the credentials, experience, staffing and resources of interested parties. Please note that a response to this request is not an offer and that the Department may not use the respondent s submission to justify a contract with a respondent without otherwise complying with Chapter 287, Florida Statutes. All staff performing services are required to be screened in accordance with Chapter 435, F.S., be of good moral character and meet the Level 2 Employment Screening standards specified by section 435.04, 110.1127, and subsection 39.001(2), F.S. 7. NOTICE TO UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGES Universities or colleges submitting a response to this RFI are not prohibited from responding to any related subsequent solicitation. It is the Department s policy that the following restrictions shall apply to the purchase of services from colleges or universities:

7.1 If the college or university intends to subcontract for any part of the work, it must use competitive procurement procedures to select the subcontractor. Section 402.7305(2)(a), F.S. 7.2 The college or university must perform at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the work required rather than use subcontractors. 7.3 The principal facilitator must be a tenured member of the faculty (or comparable status) if contracting with a university, and a staff member in continuing contract status (or comparable position) if contracting with a college. Any changes in the principal investigator shall require approval of the Department. 8. INSTRUCTIONS FOR RESPONDING TO THIS RFI 8.1 If your organization is interested in providing these services, please provide a thorough description of your organization s capacity and capability to meet these needs. The submission must address the items identified in Section 3, Statement of Need and Section 5, Service Tasks, above and include: 8.1.1 A cover letter and name, contact number, email address and address of the individual responsible for the submission of the response. 8.1.2 Organizational description and services offered. 8.1.3 Statement supporting qualifications in subject matter, curriculum development and formatting using adult learning techniques. 8.1.4 Statement supporting the capacity to coordinate with the Department to organize and schedule trainings, clinical observations, hands-on practice, and certification of Subject Matter Expert competency. 8.1.5 A brief narrative of your organizations approach to the project and a time-line to achieve the objectives of this RFI. 8.1.6 Project staffing plan in alignment with the general pricing information. 8.1.7 Information on history of performing work or projects similar to the services identified in this RFI. 8.1.8 Any additional information deemed relevant to the Department for the purpose of fulfilling Section 3, Statement of Need, Section 4, Purpose, and Section 5 Service Tasks. 8.2 Response Format Please limit responses to a maximum of 20 pages. Responses are requested by the above due date and time and shall be submitted as follows:

8.2.1 All electronically mailed submissions shall be in the Microsoft format. Attachments shall be submitted in a Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Word, and/or Microsoft Excel file. 8.2.2 Electronic submission of response to this RFI may be emailed to the Department s Procurement Manager listed in Section 11; or 8.2.3 Electronic responses saved on a compact disc may be mailed to the Procurement Manager listed in Section 11. 8.3 Submissions for this RFI shall be submitted to: Please submit an electronic copy of your response via email to the Procurement Manager listed in Section 11, below, no later than the time and date noted in Section 2, Schedule of Events. Responses must reference the RFI #23FS16006 Behavioral Health Training for the Child Protective Investigation Professional in the subject line of the e-mail response submission. 9. AMENDMENTS TO THE RFI The Department will post amendments to this RFI on the Florida Vendor Bid System at: http://www.myflorida.com/apps/vbs/vbs_www.search_r2.criteria_form. Each Respondent is responsible for monitoring the VBS for new or changing information. 10. RFI QUESTIONS AND CONTACT WITH DEPARTMENT Questions regarding this RFI shall be submitted in writing to the Procurement Manager identified in Section 11 by the date and time specified in Section 2, Schedule of Events. Questions shall be submitted via email. Question will not be answered via telephone. The Department will post responses to questions received according to the date and time listed in Section 2, Schedule of Events. 11. PROCUREMENT MANAGER Email to: Lois.Admire@myflfamilies.com Lois Admire, Procurement Manager Florida Department of Children and Families 9393 North Florida Ave, Suite 500 Tampa, Florida 33612 Phone: 813-337-5843 12. PUBLIC RECORDS AND TRADE SECRETS 12.1 Replies and Other Submissions Are Property of the State

All materials submitted in response to this RFI become the property of the State of Florida and will be a public record subject to the provisions of Chapter 119, Florida Statutes. The State of Florida shall have the right to use such ideas or adaptations of those ideas contained in any response without cost or charge. 12.2 Responses and Other Submissions are Subject to Public Inspection Unless exempted by law, all public records are subject to public inspection and copying under Florida s Public Records Law, Chapter 119, Florida Statutes. A timelimited exemption from public inspection is provided for the contents of a reply and other submittals pursuant to Section 119.071(1)(b), Florida Statutes. Once that exemption expires, all contents of a response and other submittals become subject to public inspection unless another exemption applies. Any claim of trade secret exemption for any information contained in a response or other submittal to this RFI will be waived upon opening of the response by the Department, unless the claimed trade secret information is submitted in accordance with this Section. This waiver includes any information included in the response or other submittal outside of the separately bound document described below. 12.3 How to Claim Trade Secret Protection If the Responder considers any portion of the documents, data or records submitted in its response to be trade secret and exempt from public inspection or disclosure pursuant to Florida s Public Records Law, the Vendor must submit all such information in a separately bound document (or in the case of electronic media, a separate CD, with the words "Trade Secret" included in the file name) clearly labeled "Attachment to Response, RFI No. 23FS16006 Trade Secret Material". Appropriate cross-references should be included in nonexempt materials. The first page of the electronic file or hard copy document must explain why the information in the electronic file or hard copy document is a trade secret. This submission must be made no later than the response submittal deadline. If the Vendor considers any portion of a submission made after its response to be trade secret the Responder must clearly label the submission as containing trade secret information (or in the case of electronic media, include "Trade Secret" in the relevant file names). 12.4 Vendor s Duty to Respond to Public Records Requests In response to any notice by the Department a public records request received by the Department encompasses any portion of the separately bound part of the Responder s reply or other submissions labeled as trade secret, the Vendor shall expeditiously provide the Department with a redacted version of the document(s) and identify in writing the specific statutes and facts that authorize exemption of the information from the Public Records Law. If different exemptions are claimed to be applicable to different portions of the redacted information, the Vendor shall provide information correlating the nature of the claims to the particular redacted information. The redacted copy must only exclude or obliterate only those exact portions that are claimed confidential or trade secret. If the Responder fails to promptly submit a redacted copy and justification in response to the notice of a public records request, the Department is authorized to produce the records sought without any redaction.

12.5 Department Not Obligated to Defend Vendor Claims The Department is not obligated to agree with the Responder s claim of exemption and, by submitting a response or other submission; the Vendor agrees to be responsible for defending its claim that each and every portion of the redactions is exempt from inspection and copying under Florida s Public Records Law. Further, the Vendor agrees it shall protect, defend, and indemnify, including attorney s fees and costs, the Department for any and all claims and litigation (including litigation initiated by the Department) arising from or relating to Responder s claim the redacted portions of its proposal are confidential, proprietary, trade secret, or otherwise not subject to disclosure or the scope of the Vendor s redaction.