As part of ongoing collaboration by the Boston Public Health Commission and the City of Boston, to enhance mental health crisis response services within our community, we are excited to invite organizations to respond to this Request for Information (RFI) to inform our strategy, with future potential to participate in this groundbreaking Community-Led Mental Health Crisis Response pilot project. Our goal is to gather information to support the implementation of a non-police, non-carceral, community-led mental health crisis response that fosters community engagement and support, while minimizing response from law enforcement, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and clinical providers who are mandated reporters, in mental health crisis situations.

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Request of Response Submission Form

Open to all interested respondents!

May 9, 2024 - Responding to an RFI Workshop/Technical Assistance (TA) , 1:00 to 3:00pm

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HSB is seeking proposals from qualified individuals or businesses to assess, evaluate, conduct a feasibility assessment, and create an implementation plan for a relaunch of laundry facility. It would be necessary to evaluate the space to assess the capacity for commercial grade washers and dryers to accommodate a weekly volume of between 3,000 and 3,600 pounds of laundry.

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• Supply and install approximately 400 feet of 4 ft chain link fencing to run along the edge of parking area before drainage ditch.
• Remove/ dispose and replace 70 feet of 6-foot fence to include swinging gate.
• Supply and install two bollards to protect generator.
• Supply and install 5 bollards across from ambulance training garage door.

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BPHC is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify qualified individuals or organizations with expertise in bringing culturally sensitive, culturally humble, racially just trauma-informed care to school systems.

*Due date for submitted questions has been revised to November 22, 2023.

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The chosen vendor will collaborate with Boston Public Schools (BPS) to develop and implement a comprehensive framework to effectively address mental health and trauma-related needs for ten BPS school communities: students, teachers, staff, and administration alike. The proposed framework should align with evidence-based approaches and best practices to empower BPS to become a pillar of support and resilience for school communities who face significant concurrent mental health and trauma challenges. As noted by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education “we must be aware of the prevalence of trauma in the lives of the children in our schools.

The Boston Public Health Commission is soliciting proposals from firms for the provision of a New Datacenter in North Pisalaway, NJ. 08854-4419. The proposals will also include Load Balancers that will be configured to span both Boston and New Jersey locations. The new network will require hardware and turnkey installation services. The RFP will contain list of hardware and turnkey installation services.

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The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), the City of Boston’s Public Health Department, is seeking the expertise of a skilled and experienced Public Health Communications Consultants to address a range of communications-related work in the future through an approved blanket vendor list. We invite vendors to submit a proposal to provide your consulting services: 

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BPHC is seeking a consultant to assess and document all aspects of its current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and prepare a comprehensive Statement of Work (SOW) and Request for Proposal (RFP) for the creation and/or replacement of existing Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art system. The requested ERP system should have integration and scalability to support the Enterprise, Financial, Human Resources and other related systems that is comprehensive to the union and federal grant activity that exists within our organization.

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BYRRC aims to prevent youth substance use and violence by catalyzing positive community and systems change; we do this through bringing together City and community stakeholders serving Boston’s youth and families to 1) inform Division of Violence Prevention and Recovery Services programming and priorities; 2) connect and share resources across sectors; and 3) provide opportunities for dialogue and building of shared language and knowledge.

BYRRC is seeking proposals from qualified youth-serving organizations to increase equitable access to high quality mentoring opportunities for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) LGBTQ+ young people. Specifically, via this funding and associated supports BYRRC is seeking to enhance the selected organization’s capacity to provide trauma-informed and equitable mentoring programming and to reach a greater number of Boston’s BIPOC LGBTQ + Youth over a three-year period.

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BHSI is seeking a marketing agency to support the development of a campaign to promote breastfeeding among Black families in Boston, with a focus on the neighborhoods of Mattapan, Dorchester, Hyde Park and Roxbury. The campaign will support Black families in Boston to initiate and continue breastfeeding for at least 6 months to promote health and wellbeing of black mothers, infants, and families and close the equity gap through the following strategies:

• Promoting positive norms related to breastfeeding
• Increasing awareness of breastfeeding supports and resources
• Increasing awareness of laws protecting lactating and parenting families among families and employers
• Expanding the local capacity of lactation support workers

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The Boston Public Health Commission is seeking a vendor that can provide courier service of perishable and non-perishable goods from The Greater Boston Food Bank to The Boston Public Health Commission Shirley’s Pantry.

The vendor is requested to include labor for the delivery, loading, unloading, and stocking of goods.

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