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Amendment 1 to?RFP JUV-27-TS-SW-001 Youth Centered Planning Meetings RFP

Issuing Agency

Iowa Judicial Branch

Location

Iowa

Published Date

Apr 9, 2026

Closing Date

Apr 22, 2026

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

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Project Description

Amendment 1 to RFP JUV-27-TS-SW-001 . Posted 4/9/26.

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Iowa Judicial Branch

1111 East Court Avenue | Des Moines, IA 50319

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Administrative Information:

RFP COVER SHEET

Title of RFP:

Agency:

Youth Centered Planning Meetings

Iowa Judicial Branch (IJB)

RFP

Number:

JUV-27-TS-SW-001

AMD 1

Number of years of the 1 year

initial terms of the

Contract:

Number of possible annual 5 additional 1-year terms

renewals:

exercisable by the IJB in

its sole discretion

Anticipated Initial

Contract Term Beginning:

July 1, 2026

Ending:

Anticipated Maximum Annual Contract Budget: $1,000,000.00

June 30, 2027

Issuing Officer:

Angi Hillers

Angi.hillers@iowacourts.gov

1111 E Court Ave

Des Moines, IA 50319

PROCUREMENT TIMETABLE—Event or Action:

Agency Posts Notice of RFP on TSB website

Date/Time(Central time):

March 16, 2026

Agency Issues RFP

March 18, 2026

Letters of Intent to Bid: This is a mandatory requirement

March 25, 2026

2:00 PM

RFP written questions, requests for clarification, and suggested changes from

Respondents due:

The IJB’s written response to RFP questions, requests for clarifications and

suggested changes due: (will be available on bidding website)

Proposals Due Date:

Proposals Due Time:

Anticipated Date to issue Notice of Intent to Award:

March 27, 2026

2:00 PM

April 9, 2026

April 22, 2026

2:00 PM

May 20, 2026

Anticipated Date to execute Contract:

Relevant Websites:

Web-address:

July 1, 2026

Internet website where Addenda to https://www.iowacourts.gov/for-the-public/rfp/

this RFP will be posted:

https://bidopportunities.iowa.gov/

RFP JUV-27-TS-SW-001

AMD 1

Internet website where General

Terms for Juvenile Court Services

(JCS) Services Contracts are located:

https://www.iowacourts.gov/static/media/cms/General_Terms_fo

r_JCS_Services_Cont_1257FB3D72AAA.pdf

Electronic Copies of Proposals Required to be Submitted to the Issuing Officer.

Firm Proposal Terms

120 Days

Per Section 3.2.11 of the RFP, the minimum Number of Days following the

deadline for submitting proposals that the Respondent guarantees all proposal

terms, including price, will remain firm:

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1 INTRODUCTION

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1.1 PURPOSE

The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to solicit proposals from Responsible Respondents to

provide the goods and/or services identified on the RFP cover sheet and further described in Section 4 of

this RFP to the IJB, as identified on the RFP cover sheet. The IJB intends to award a Contract beginning and

ending on the dates listed on the RFP cover sheet, and the IJB, in its sole discretion, may extend the

Contract(s) for up to the number of annual extensions identified on the RFP cover sheet.

IJB is seeking proposals for one vendor to cover the entire State of Iowa, including all JCS Districts; this

may be achieved with the successful vendor subcontracting with other providers.

1.2 DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this RFP and the resulting Contract, the following terms are defined.

“Agency” means the agency identified on the RFP cover sheet that is issuing the RFP.

“Bid Proposal” or “Proposal” means Respondent’s proposal submitted in response to the RFP.

“Contract” means the Contract(s) entered into with Respondent(s) as described in section 6.

“Contractor” means the awarded business/person to provide the contractual services agreed upon.

“General Terms” and “General Terms and Conditions” shall mean the General Terms for Juvenile Court

Services service contracts as linked on the RFP cover page.

“IJB” shall mean the Iowa Judicial Branch.

“Invoice” means a Contractor’s claim for payment. At the IJB’s discretion, claims must be submitted on

an original invoice from the Contractor and on a claim, form accepted by the IJB, such as a General

Accounting Expenditure (GAX) form.

“Juvenile Court Officer” or “JCO” means a person appointed as a juvenile court officer under section

602.7202 of the Iowa Code and also includes a chief juvenile court officer appointed under section

602.1217 of the Iowa Code.

“Juvenile Court Services” or “JCS”, for the purposes of this RFP, means a unit of the Iowa Judicial Branch

in which juveniles adjudicated by the Iowa Juvenile Court as delinquent and Youth at risk of entering the

court system receive services as directed by the Chief Juvenile Court Officer or designee.

“Respondent” means the company, organization or other business entity submitting a proposal in

response to this RFP.

“Responsible Respondent” means a Respondent that has the capability, as determined in the sole

discretion of the IJB, in all material respects to perform the scope of work and specifications of the

Contract. In determining whether a Respondent is a Responsible Respondent, the IJB may consider various

factors including, but not limited to, the Respondent’s competence and qualifications to provide the goods

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or services requested, the Respondent’s integrity and reliability, the past performance of the Respondent

and the best interest of the IJB and the State.

“Responsive Proposal” means a Proposal that complies, in the sole discretion of the IJB, with the material

provisions of this RFP.

“RFP” means this Request for Proposals and any attachments, exhibits, schedules or addenda hereto.

“State” means the State of Iowa, the IJB, and all state agencies, boards, and commissions, and any political

subdivisions making purchases from the Contract as permitted by this RFP.

“Vendor” means anyone who provides goods or services to another entity.

1.2.1 Additional Definitions specific to this RFP:

“Action Changes Things Plan” or “ACT Plan” means a youth-led, individualized transition/reentry plan

that identifies a youth’s current progress and defines the youth’s SMART goals in the eight transition

domains - (1) education, (2) employment, (3) health, (4) housing, (5) supportive relationships, (6) self-

sufficiency, (7) civic engagement and responsibility, and (8) interpersonal skills and behaviors. The plan

also identifies the actions and supports needed to achieve the youth’s goals and a time frame for goal

completion.

“Active Case” means a Youth engaged in the Youth Centered Planning Meeting services after initial

contact has been made by the contractor, meaning they had at least one event in accordance with the

requirements outlined in the Contract.

“Aftercare” means Re-integrative services that prepare Out-of-Home placed youth for reentry into the

community by establishing the necessary collaborative arrangements with the community to ensure the

delivery of prescribed services and supervision.

“Case Permanency Plan” means A plan that identifies the goals, needs, strengths, problems, services,

time frames for meeting goals and for delivery of the services to the youth and parent, which is

developed by Juvenile Court Services, designed to achieve placement for intervention and public safety

in the least restrictive and most family-like setting available.

“Case Manager” means the staff person providing all categories of case management services

regardless of the entity providing the service or the program in which the member is enrolled.

“Casey Life Skills Assessment” or “CLSA” means a suite of comprehensive assessments, learning plans,

and learning resources that can be utilized at no charge to help engage young people in Foster Care

whereby they can gain the life skills they need to exit care. The tools are strengths-based and were built

and refined with user input and research. The assessments consist of statements about life skills

domains deemed critical by Youth and caregivers for successful adult living.

“Collaboration” means when communities, agencies, and local organizations provide comprehensive

services based on common goals and shared resources instead of focusing on individual agendas. This

also means communities, agencies and local organizations address problems that lie beyond any single

agency or organization’s purview, yet concern them all, to establish common goals by pooling resources,

planning, implementing, and evaluating new services and procedures, and delegating individual

responsibility for the outcomes of their efforts.

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“Concurrent Planning” means to work toward the return of the youth to the parents while, at the same

time, developing another permanent plan for the child.

“Criminogenic Risk Factors” means criminogenic needs are dynamic risk factors such as antisocial

attitudes and behaviors, anti-social peers, and aggression that have been established through research

to be predictive of involvement in delinquent activity, and which are also amenable to change.

“Family” means the social unit consisting of the Child and relations of the Child, including, but not

limited to, biological or adoptive parent, stepparent, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, and

grandparent.

“Fictive Kin” means an individual who is unrelated by either birth or marriage but who has an

emotionally significant relationship with another individual who would take on the characteristics of a

family relationship.

“Foster Care” means twenty four-hour substitute care for a child who is placed away from their parents

or guardians, with placement and care responsibility held by the department or juvenile court services.

"Health and Human Services (HHS) Transition Planning Specialist” or “(TPS)" means HHS employees

who are available to JCOs to provide training on the components of transition planning, community

resources available, and to consult with regarding experienced difficulties for youth to successfully

transition from foster care into young adulthood.

“Iowa Delinquency Assessment” or “IDA” means a risk assessment tool that allows the JCO to

determine the level of risk that a juvenile presents to re-offend, as well as identifying potential risk and

protective factors that can be used to help juveniles improve behavior.

“Kinship Caregiver” means a person to whom a child is related by blood, marriage, or adoption, or a

person who has a significant, committed, positive relationship with the child, who is caring for a child in

foster care, pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 232.

“Out-of-Home Placement” encompasses the placements and services provided to youth when they

must be removed from their homes because of child safety concerns because of serious parent-child

conflict, or to treat serious physical or behavioral health conditions, which cannot be addressed within

the family. Out-of-home placements include detention, shelter, family foster care, QRTP, PMIC, State

Training School, hospitalization, and relative care placements.

“Out-of-State Placement” means placements and services provided to youth in another state when they

must be removed from their homes because of child safety concerns because of serious parent-child

conflict, or to treat serious physical or behavioral health conditions, which cannot be addressed within

the continuum of services in Iowa.

“Permanency” means legal and stable living arrangements for children in foster care, achieved through

Permanency Hearings held within 12 months of removal, aiming for return home, adoption,

guardianship, or long-term foster care, ensuring a child has a lasting, safe family connection and stable

environment, often involving a formal plan like Concurrent Planning to prepare for various outcomes.

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Commodity Codes

• NAICS 541611Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
• NAICS 541618Other Management Consulting Services

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