Grant Application Services

The government authority located in New Castle, Delaware is seeking a vendor to provide grant application services. The agency needs to serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural areas, tribal communities, and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals. These target populations include people of color, immigrants, refugees, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with arrest or conviction records, and religious minorities. The scope of work requires implementing programs for or expanding access to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services. The agency aims to prepare program members to enter behavioral health careers, which may include individuals with lived experience with substance use and mental health challenges. The project also focuses on improving the quality of life for veterans, active-duty military members, and their families by recruiting veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service. The selected vendor must support civic bridgebuilding programs to reduce polarization and community divisions while providing training in civic bridgebuilding skills to members. The agency requires the provision of benefits to members to enhance recruitment and retention, such as paying more than the minimum living allowance, transportation, housing, and food. The contract period will span one year, and the performance of all work must occur onsite. Eligible bidders must be located onshore within the United States. The agency is looking for budget proposals to determine the cost of these services. Bidders must submit all questions no later than June 25, 2026, and the agency accepts digital responses via email or online submission.