Type: Request for Proposal

Release Date: August 23, 2021

Proposal Deadline: October 15, 2021
3:00 pm ET

Issued By: Public Health Solutions on behalf of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Contact Info: Brian Fusco
RHTRFP@healthsolutions.org

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Public Health Solutions on behalf of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Disease Control / Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV and STI (BHHS), is seeking proposals from qualified organizations to provide Systems-Level Change for Normalizing Routine HIV Testing in High-Volume Health Care Settings, to expand access and availability to routine HIV testing in the PS20-2010-identified counties in NYC: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan and Queens. This model aims to make the universal offer of an HIV test available to all New Yorkers accessing services within high-volume health care settings without focusing on specific priority populations.

The goals of the funding opportunity are:

• Implement and scale up universal opt-out routine HIV testing in high-volume health care settings
• Build capacity for sustainable models of universal opt-out routine HIV testing in high-volume health care settings through systems-level change

Contract Term

February 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025

Key Dates

Pre-Proposal Conference Webinar: September 8, 2021, 3pm – 4:30pm ET

Questions Due Date: September 9, 2021, 12pm ET

Supplement 1 Release Date: September 21, 2021

Supplement 2 Release Date: October 7 , 2021

Supplement 3 Release Date: October 8, 2021

 

 

Organizational Eligibility Requirements

  1. High-volume health care setting – defined as a hospital or a network of community health centers, who have at least 200,000 visits annually;
  2. Have legal incorporation by the New York State Department of State as a not-for-profit corporation at the time of application submission;
  3. Have Federal tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code at the time of application submission;
  4. Currently operating a brick-and-mortar site in either Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan or Queens in NYC;
  5. Have at least 24 months experience in providing HIV testing and linkage services in NYC as a clinical entity;
  6. Have an active and up-to-date Article 28 license from the New York State Department of Health at the time of application submission; and
  7. If processing specimens on-site, at the time of application submission have a clinical laboratory permit with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Wadsworth Center’s Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program that matches the complexity level of laboratory tests conducted. The clinical laboratory must also meet relevant national and NY State standards, laws, and regulations pertaining to clinical laboratories. This requirement is waived if specimen processing happens offsite.