The new RFO is for design and development of Certification, Approval, and Licensing Services (CALS) within the Child Welfare Services – New System (CWS-NS) project.
The RFO is capped at just under $1 million, with a total of $8.5 million in additional, optional contract extensions.
The RFO summarizes who will use CALS:
"The CALS users (roughly estimated at 25,000) will primarily be the state and county employees who perform the activities related to facility licensing, certification, and resource family home approval, which includes the caseload-carrying field staff, supervisors and managers, legal advisors and support staff, among others essential to the performance of those duties. Additional CALS users will include other child welfare and probation workers, as well as the licensees, applicants, or approved families, and associated individuals who interact with CALS data and features through self-service portals."
The California Health and Human Services agency announced the selection of the (ADPQ) vendor pool in July. Officials estimate that the state will release a half-dozen RFOs for the pool by the end of the year.
