Request for Proposal: Mental Health Case Management for Adults
Issued By: Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency
The AACMHA desires to identify a provider or multiple providers of TCM in Anne Arundel County beginning July 1, 2026. The TCM provider(s) will be expected to serve adult individuals who have Medical Assistance or who are uninsured and meet specific uninsured criteria. The provider(s) will provide both general and intensive levels of TCM. Services should be person-centered, participant-driven and recovery oriented.
The population to be served may be homeless or at risk of homelessness, not linked to behavioral health or somatic health services, may be released from incarceration or psychiatric hospitalization and may have no social supports. These individuals may have complex behavioral health symptoms. Individuals may have lost their primary benefits and/or have never achieved eligibility for benefits. The provider(s) will be expected to assist individuals with obtaining all benefits and social supports needed to be successful in the community. The provider(s) is expected to assure that once the linkages to services have been provided that the individual has successfully transitioned to the new provider(s).
The major goals of Targeted Case Management are:
A. Linking
1. Assisting participants to access entitlements and needed medical, mental health, social, educational and other services.
2. Developing Comprehensive Assessments and Periodic Reassessments resulting in recovery oriented and dual diagnosis capable Care Plans.
3. Referrals and tracking activities to assure the participant has applied for, has access to, and is receiving the necessary services to meet the participant's needs, such as mental health, substance use and medical services, resource procurement, transportation, or crisis intervention.
The successful bidder shall:
• Be licensed by the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) Office of Licensing under COMAR 10.09.45 by July 1, 2026.
• Be approved or licensed in Maryland as a community mental health provider under COMAR 10.21.19, 10.21.20 or 10.21.21 or have three years’ experience as a mental health case management provider in Maryland
• Be enrolled as a TCM Provider in the Public Behavioral Health System (PBHS).
• Be approved by the Maryland Medicaid System as a TCM Provider.
• Have at least 3 years’ experience providing mental health services to, including serving high risk populations, adults with serious mental illness.
• Have a valid Medicaid Provider billing number by that date.
If the successful bidder is a new TCM provider in Anne Arundel County, assurance must be provided to the AACMHA that arrangements will be made to transfer all participants currently enrolled in TCM to the bidder’s program, with a valid authorization for TCM, unless the participant declines the offer or specific exemption is granted by the AACMHA.
PROCUREMENT PROCESS
Issuing Office
Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency, Inc.
1 Harry S Truman Parkway, Suite 101
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
(410) 222-7858
Issuing Officer
Adrienne Mickler
Executive Director
PRE-BID CONFERENCE
A pre-bid conference will be held on April 7, 2026 at 10:00 am via Zoom Video Conference. The purpose of the conference is to address questions concerning the expectations of the project. All interested parties should register with the Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency, Inc. via email to cbednarczyk@aamentalhealth.org.
QUESTIONS
All questions should be submitted in writing via email to cbednarczyk@aamentalhealth.org by 4:00 pm EST on April 15, 2026. Answers to all questions that are not deemed applicable only to the requestor will be posted on the Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency website at www.aamentalhealth.org within 5 business days. The statements and interpretations contained in responses to any questions, whether responded to verbally or in writing, are not binding on the Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency, Inc. unless it issues an amendment in writing.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND CLOSING DATE
The deadline for submission of proposals is 3:00 pm EST, Thursday, April 30, 2026 at Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency, Inc. (AACMHA).
Please note: there are two application forms as part of this RFP, one for the qualifications/technical proposal and one for the budget proposal. Please submit (1) one electronic copy of the qualifications/technical proposal and (1) one electronic copy of the budget analysis proposal in two separate emails.
Links for Application Forms:
1. AAC MHA FY27 TCM-A Grant Application 1 of 2: Qualifications and Technical Proposal
2. AAC MHA FY27 TCM-A Grant Application 2 of 2: Budget Analysis
Both applications must be emailed to cbednarczyk@aamentalhealth.org as Excel or Google Sheet attachments. All supporting documents linked in the applications must be saved in a shared Google Drive Folder with “editor” access granted to cbednarczyk@aamentalhealth.org. Modification to any shared documents is not permitted past the proposal submission deadline.
Request for Proposal: In-Home Intervention Program – Children
Issued by: Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency, Inc.
Issue date: February 20, 2026
As a result of the closing of Crownsville Hospital Center and the recommendations of a broad-based Task Force Report, the Maryland General Assembly appropriated funding in FY 2005 to support the expansion of community mental health services in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s and St. Mary’s Counties, this was the catchment area of the soon to be closed Crownsville Hospital Center. The five counties identified the need for in-home intervention services for children and adolescents at risk for admission to institutional care (hospitals and/or Residential Treatment Centers) covered by Medical Assistance and determined to be “high users” of the Public Behavioral Health System (PBHS).
The youth targeted for this voluntary in-home intervention program are eligible for and/or are receiving services through the PBHS. This program is based on a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP) platform, with additional grant funded activities that are outside the services covered under PRP.
The Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency, Inc. (AACMHA), a 501 (c) 3 private non-profit organization, is the Core Service Agency (CSA) and co-chairs the LBHA for Anne Arundel County. Prince George’s County LBHA is within the Prince Georges County Health Department and is a governmental entity.
The AACMHA and Prince George’s County LBHA each intends to contract via this RFP with a qualified provider or provider(s) to deliver an In-Home Intervention Program for Children to Anne Arundel and/or Prince George’s Counties.
A provider may propose to serve one, or both jurisdictions participating in this RFP. Each county is responsible for funding, coordination, planning, contracting and monitoring of the project for their own county.
Each county will oversee and monitor compliance with all contract conditions for their respective county. Services are expected to commence on July 1, 2026, or upon the effective date of the contract between Offeror and each jurisdiction.
Goals and Brief Service Description
The goals of the In-Home Intervention Program for Children (IHIP-C) are to:
1. Provide effective, family focused, community-based in-home intervention services for children and adolescents with behavioral health issues at risk of out-of-home placement;
2. Deliver services that are individualized, culturally and linguistically competent, family focused, coordinated and built on strengths and resilience; and
3. Either reduce admissions to more costly and more restrictive institutional placements or assist the family with reunification following an out-of-home placement.
4. Services should follow the IHIP-C Model outlined in the IHIP-C Manual (to be supplied by Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency).
The IHIP-C Program intervenes immediately when there is an emergent or crisis/emergency situation, provides brief and intensive interventions, strengthens family functioning, teaches coping skills, links the youth and family to behavioral health and other community support services, and averts visits to costly local emergency departments and/or admissions to a hospital or residential treatment center.
Offeror's Eligibility
To be eligible for this contract, all the following criteria must be met:
1. Be an approved Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP) under COMAR 10.63
2. Assurance must be made to become and maintain approval as a 1915(i) Intensive In Home Services/ Promising Practice IIHS provider (non-EBP), under COMAR 10.08.89. Provider must also actively accept referrals and serve families for individuals that qualify for the 1915i IIHIS. These referrals come through care coordination organizations. Billing for those individuals is through Medicaid and not through the grant. Provider must adhere to any additional COMAR regulations when serving those youth.
3. Able to serve a team of 12 youth. For each team of 12 youth, the Offeror will have at a minimum a 0.5 FTE Masters Level licensed mental health clinician and 2.0 FTE Bachelor’s level staff with greater than two years of experience.
4. Each IHIP-C team shall have qualified staff on-call and available for home visits 24 hours a day, seven days a week to handle crisis/emergency situations and to accommodate the schedules of program participants.
Start-up Costs: Although there is no funding for start-up costs, start-up costs are anticipated, and they should be submitted on a separate budget and supported with supplement schedules of start-up costs. All costs should be detailed on a separate MDH 432 packet.
Pre-Bid Conference Questions and Answers:
A Pre-Bid Conference was Held on March 18th, 2026
View the Pre-Bid Questions and Answers
Steps to completion
Register for Pre-Bid Conference
RSVP to Chelsea Bednarczyk at
cbednarczyk@aamentalhealth.org
by March 3, 2026
Pre-Bid Conference
Via Zoom Meeting (please register for invitation information)
2 PM EST March 18, 2026
Deadline for Questions by 4 PM EST on March 25, 2026
Answers will be posted to AACMHA website within 5 days
Proposal Submission Deadline by 3 PM EST on April 17, 2026
Deliver to: Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency
Attn: IHIP-C RFP
1 Truman Pkwy, Ste. 101
Annapolis, MD 21401
Review Committee Packet Pick Up/Distribution
April 20, 2026
Review Committee
TBD via Zoom Meeting
Week of May 4, 2026
Contract Committee
TBD via Zoom Meeting
Week of May 11, 2026
Core Service Agency’s Board of Directors’ Approval
May 26, 2026
Contract Award Announcement
Email/call to successful bidder and notice to be placed on the AACMHA website
May 27, 2026
Work to begin on or about
July 1, 2026