Residential Contracts (24-Hour Residential Child Care)

Introduction

DFPS contracts with about 300 licensed residential child-care providers to provide substitute care to children in DFPS’s managing conservatorship. Through these contracts, DFPS establishes the qualifications, standards, services, expectations, and outcomes for 24-hour child-care facilities and child-placing agencies.

Residential Contract Managers are regionally based DFPS staff responsible for assessing, monitoring, and managing these contracts. Residential contract managers serve as liaisons between DFPS field staff and providers ensuring effective conflict resolution, input, and communication. Residential Contracts staff also work closely with the DFPS Third Party Reviewer and the DFPS Licensing Division to ensure contractors maintain compliance with service level and licensing standards.

Residential Child Care Contracting Opportunities

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) provides this Procurement Plan for Residential Services as a courtesy for use by parties interested in learning about procurement and contracting opportunities with DFPS. The information provided in this plan is not legally binding and is subject to change without notice at any time.  Please check back to this site frequently for any updates to this plan.  Additionally, current procurement opportunities are posted on the Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD). For specific ESBD instructions, see How to Find Funding Opportunities.

• Procurement Plan: Purchased Client Services
  Plan data updated every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month

Applying for a Residential Child Care Contract with DFPS

Steps to Contracting with DFPS include:

• Applicant’s Guide to Contracting with DFPS to Provide Residential Child Care
• Apply for a License through DFPS Child Care Licensing
• Search the web site for open solicitations for Residential Child Care Service on the Texas Procurement and Support Services Office's Electronic State Business Daily.
• Review available solicitations for application instructions and submit application to the name and address listed for DFPS Purchased Client Services Procurement Office. E-mail questions to DFPS Purchased Client Services Procurement Office
• Ensure that your policies and procedures address the requirements of Residential Child Care Licensing Minimum Standards, the Residential Contract, and Service Level Indicators. For a comparison of these requirements, see Comparison of Minimum Standards, Residential Contract Requirements, and Service Level Indicators

Residential Child Care Contractors

• Residential Child Care Contractors (Active/Open Residential Child Care Contracts)
• Active DFPS Contracts At or Exceeding $100,000
• Performance Management Evaluation Tool (PMET): PMET is used only by client services contractors who are required to self-report contract performance measure data. To access the system, go to PMET.

Residential Contract Managers

• Residential Child Care Contracts Staff  for 24 hour/Residential Facilities

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