RFP: Family Support Services

The New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is withdrawing the Family Support Services RFP OPD-2025-02 due to an administrative error. All submitted proposals will be discarded without review.

The RFP will be reissued with corrections as OPD-2025-43 within the next week. Bidders will be notified of the reissuance via email. The corrected RFP will also be available on OPWDD’s website at https://opwdd.ny.gov/procurement-opportunities, the NYS Contract Reporter at https://www.nyscr.ny.gov/, and the Statewide Financial System (SFS) at https://www.sfs.ny.gov/ by searching in Grants Management for Event ID OPD-2025-43-FSS.

Announcement of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Family Support Services:

OPWDD is issuing the attached Request for Proposals (RFP) for Family Support Services (FSS) with the intent to award several contracts for these services. Proposals are being accepted for FSS funding to provide new or enhanced programs/services to OPWDD eligible individuals who live at home with their families. The emphasis of FSS Proposals should be to increase the variety and availability of services and supports to unserved/underserved individuals and their families towards satisfying their unmet needs and offsetting some of the challenges these families may experience.

Within submitted proposals, OPWDD seeks providers to address specific priorities (Priority Needs). The RFP Scope of Work Program Requirements is separated into subsections describing those Priority Needs by Region. In the event that a Bidder is pursuing more than one Priority Need and/or in multiple regions, the Bidder must clearly identify these areas correlating to each Priority Need and submit a separate proposal (including all attachments in the Administrative Proposal and Technical Proposal packages, and the Budget Proposal attachment) for each proposed program and/or Region.

This opportunity is available in the Statewide Financial System (SFS) and can be found by searching for SFS Event ID: OPD-FSS-25. Proposals must be submitted via SFS. 

Updates have been made to the Dates on the Calendar of Events below. Updates are in Bold.