Doing Business with DCF (eSupplier solicitations)
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
The registration and bidding route for Wisconsin DCF contracts. Explains the competitive process, the STAR supplier registration, and how to subscribe to eSupplier so child welfare solicitations reach you when they post.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award figures published. The page states only that Wisconsin publishes state agency procurements over $50,000 on eSupplier; smaller contracts may be handled differently.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No cycle. Solicitations post to eSupplier as they arise and DCF encourages subscribing to the system for notification. Procurement questions go to dcfprocurement@wisconsin.gov.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to organisations that complete STAR supplier registration for tax and address information, register the relevant commodity codes on eSupplier, and can execute contracts by electronic signature. Universities and research firms are not excluded, but nothing on this page confirms that evaluation or research services are among the categories DCF procures.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- state contracting · supplier registration · competitive solicitation · child welfare services
- Apply at
- https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/doingbusinesswith
- 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
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