Specifications include, but are not limited to: Bidders selected through this Request for Proposal must: 1. Improve and maintain their organization’s knowledge of, and compliance with, Title X Family Planning Guidelines and Policies; 2. Work to increase community awareness and use of Title X Family Planning services; 3. Work to improve their organization’s service delivery to assure capacity and access to serve a diverse population including the uninsured and under insured, adolescent, minority and hard-to-reach female and male populations in Delaware; 4. Encourage the participation of families, parents, and/or legal guardians in the decision of adolescents seeking family planning services to receive counseling and other services to avoid unplanned pregnancy, STDs and HIV; 5. Work to increase Delawarean’s access to a broad range of family planning services; 6. Improve and maintain financial management of their organization through service delivery efficiency, securing supplies and equipment at the most cost-effective pricing, and efficiently billing insurances and clients where policy permits; and 7. Promote and comply with Federal Legislative Mandates, Program Priorities and Key Issues as listed in the following: Legislative Mandates The following legislative mandates have been part of the Title X appropriations language for each of the last several years. Title X family planning services projects should include administrative, clinical, counseling, and referral services necessary to ensure adherence to these requirements. a. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be made available to any entity under Title X of the Public Health Service Act unless the applicant for the award certifies to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and that it provides counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities. (See Appendix J) b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no provider of services under Title X of the Public Health Service Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest
