Sources SoughtPosted Aug 5, 2026·Responses due Aug 19, 2026

Innovative Technology Solutions and Services for Child Welfare to Advance a Home for Every Child for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children & Families (ACF)

Health and Human Services (all) · OMAS STRATEGIC BUYING CENTER - HHS MISSION

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
Not stated
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
ACF-26-IS-01
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Washington, DC, USA
Contact
Jan Welsh (jan.welsh@hhs.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation ACF-26-IS-01 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 5, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Aug 5, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Aug 21, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (0 found; 10 needed).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is seeking information for innovative, modular, and interoperable solutions that support child welfare technology modernization for title IV-E agencies at the state level. Through this RFI, ACF seeks input from vendors on standards � aligned technologies and services that can assist states, territories, and tribes in exploring, planning, implementing, and maintaining child welfare technology solutions. ACF seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the vendor landscape, including the capabilities, services, implementation approaches, an… (show all)

d innovations available to support child welfare technology modernization. Information gathered through this RFI will help inform a catalog of market research for title IV-E agencies and other jurisdictions. The catalog is not intended to serve as a purchasing vehicle, procurement mechanism, or list of pre-approved offerings. It will provide greater transparency into the market, help jurisdictions understand available solution options, identify gaps in current capabilities, and determine where vendors may be best positioned to support child welfare modernization. ALL RESPONSES AND QUESTIONS shall be submitted via the Responses form link and Questions form link.

Who won similar work

874 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Health and Human Services (all)), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

Single-winner award sizes (805): middle half $79K to $4.9M, median $407K; range $1 to $89.0B.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
DT-TRAK CONSULTING, INC.15$23.1MSep 9, 2026
LACREEK DEVELOPMENT CORP14$24.3MAug 5, 2026
LYDAY CONSTRUCTION LLC14$508KSep 2, 2026
BIGHORN RIDGERUNNERS, LLC10$2.2MJul 27, 2026
Prime Physicians Tri Providers LLC7$110.0MSep 22, 2026
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE Durham NC 27709 USA6$1.5B + 1 sharedOct 5, 2026
GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC6$967KSep 11, 2026
Tywell Builders LLC6$60KJun 10, 2025
POLOLEI SOLUTIONS, LLC5$3.3MJul 21, 2026
ALKO ENTERPRISES INC5$2.6MApr 27, 2026

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS) job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 252 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.