This Bid Solicitation {RFP} is issued by the Procurement Bureau, Division of Purchase and Property (Division), Department of the Treasury on behalf of the Department of Corrections (DOC), Office of Substance Abuse Programming and Addiction Services, Division of Operations. The purpose of this Bid Solicitation {RFP} is to solicit Quotes {Proposals} for a Vendor {Contractor} to provide in-prison Substance Use Disorder treatment services (SUD Program) for a broad array of substance-related and addictive disorders as per American Psychiatric Association – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – Fifth Edition (DSM-5), which is available for purchase at The American Psychiatric Association website:
http://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/dsm-5.
The intent of this Bid Solicitation {RFP} is to award a Master Blanket Purchase Order (Blanket P.O. {Contract} to that responsible Vendor {Bidder} whose Quote {Proposal}, conforming to this Bid Solicitation {RFP} is most advantageous to the State, price and other factors considered. The State may award any and all price lines. The State, however, reserves the right to separately procure individual requirements that are the subject of the Blanket P.O. {Contract} during the Blanket P.O. {Contract} term, when deemed by the Director of the Division of Purchase and Property (Director) to be in the State’s best interest.
DOC is mission-mandated to act in the interest of public safety and at the same time provide its offender population with the necessary tools to successfully re-enter society. Those offenders who present substance use concerns are burdened with the added re-entry barrier of addiction. To meet this mandate, DOC has made it a priority to provide treatment to its substance use disorder population. Approximately 47% of offenders within DOC have a moderate to extreme addiction severity index rating in either alcohol and/or drugs according to a severity profile assessment. Offender addiction is a correctional mission issue.
The treatment gap, the difference between treatment need and treatment capacity, is not limited to the general, non-criminal justice public, but is a correctional concern as well. There are many factors that contribute to access to treatment by the prison population and thereby determine the subsets of program eligible offenders within the full population. For example, the level and type of treatment services that can be provided to an addicted offender are dependent upon the level, severity, longevity of the presenting addiction concern, and the individual offender’s recovery motivation and progress. The factors and components of the incarceration experience also impact the level and type of possible treatment referral and placement. The latter can be described in terms of commitment offense(s), sentence length, custody status, community release eligibility, age, gender, etc. The clinically driven treatment model requirements such as necessary treatment duration, phase progression, and intervention cycles are also factors. It is clear that DOC maximizes the use of its limited resources to ensure the broadest range of coverage with the greatest likelihood of positive, long-term outcomes.
The rules, policies, and procedures pertaining to the operational functioning of DOC, including those pertaining to classification and treatment programming, are contained within Title 10A of the New Jersey Administrative Code.
Recovery is a key component of reentry success for the addicted offender. Where traditional re-entry thought and efforts have viewed the treatment and social service related re-entry strategies as separate and successive components, post-release success for the addicted offender recognizes re-entry as a part of the ongoing treatment episode in support of long term recovery goals. Therefore, a primary therapeutic goal and associated expectation of outcomes of implemented treatment strategies within DOC for the program participant is the ability of the treatment intervention to assess and advance the offender in his/her recovery process and ensure that the offender is prepared to take full advantage of re-entry programming.