DFPS Contracting and Funding Opportunities (Solicitations over $25,000)
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
The standing entry point for Texas child protective services contracting. DFPS announces every procurement above $25,000 here as an RFP, RFA, RFO, RFQ or IFB, including evaluation and analytic work.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award amounts are published on this page. The only figure stated is a posting threshold: DFPS announces procurement opportunities exceeding $25,000. Individual solicitation values appear only in each posted document.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Solicitations post continuously to the Electronic State Business Daily rather than on an annual cycle. The page offers an email subscription for notice of new contracting opportunities; each solicitation carries its own response deadline.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to any bidder who responds to a posted solicitation; DFPS does not restrict by organisation type on this page. You must find the solicitation on the Electronic State Business Daily (search agency number 530, status 'posted') or the HHS Procurement and Contract Services open provider enrollment list, and meet whatever registration and qualification terms that individual solicitation sets.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- child protective services · program evaluation · state procurement · foster care · adult protective services
- Apply at
- https://www.dfps.texas.gov/Doing_Business/opportunities.asp
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
Also on the Child Welfare shelf
- Research and evaluation grantsOffice of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and FamiliesAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceWilliam T. Grant Foundation$100k–$1M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Young Scholars ProgramFoundation for Child Development$100k–$250k · Annual cycle
- Grants and research partnershipsThe Annie E. Casey FoundationAmount not published · By invitation
- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open