DHS Business Center Procurement (RFPs, IFBs, Expressions of Interest, Bid Board)
Maryland Department of Human Services
The posting hub for Maryland's human services and child welfare agency. Requests for Proposals, Invitations for Bids, Requests for Expressions of Interest and a Bid Board are each maintained here with archives of past solicitations.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No dollar amounts are published on the procurement hub. Values appear only within individual solicitations.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Continuous posting across four solicitation types, each with its own archive. No recurring cycle is described and no open deadline was stated on the page.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Bidders respond to individual solicitations; this page does not state registration prerequisites, so verify vendor registration and any certification requirements inside each posted document before assuming a university or research firm can bid as prime rather than subcontractor.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- human services procurement · child welfare · requests for proposals · expressions of interest
- Apply at
- https://dhs.maryland.gov/business-center/procurement/
- 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.
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- 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
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- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open