Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Grant Program Services

The government authority located in Washington, DC is seeking a vendor to provide domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant program services. The agency is trying to address the challenges posed by a lack of access to quality forensic sexual assault examinations, shelters, victim services, and limited law enforcement resources in remote rural and geographically isolated areas. The project aims to establish and expand nonprofit, nongovernmental, State, tribal, territorial, and local government victim services in rural communities to child, youth, and adult victims. The scope of work covers dealing directly and immediately with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking occurring in rural communities. The selected vendor must create and implement strategies to increase awareness and prevent these crimes, while also providing treatment, counseling, advocacy, legal assistance, and other long-term and short-term victim and population-specific services, including assistance in immigration matters. The agency also requires the development, enlargement, or strengthening of programs addressing sexual assault, which includes sexual assault forensic examiner programs, Sexual Assault Response Teams, law enforcement training, and programs addressing rape kit backlogs. The project further requires developing programs and strategies that focus on the specific needs of victims in remote rural areas, including providing training and resources to Community Health Aides involved in the delivery of Indian Health Service programs. Eligible bidders are restricted to onshore, USA-only organizations. The performance of the work will take place offsite. The agency has not disclosed a specific budget and is looking for proposals to determine the cost. No specific evaluation criteria or key dates are provided in the source material.