645596 - FY26 RFP COMPADM26001 for Combat Cancer Technical Assistance Provider
Funding Opportunity Details

Healthy Hometowns

Final Application Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 4:00 PM

Description

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  The issuance of this Funding Opportunity in no way constitutes a commitment by Iowa HHS to award a contract.

  Excerpts from the RFP:

  Purpose

  The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) # COMPADM26001 is to solicit applications that will enable the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (referred to as Agency) to select the most qualified applicant to provide Rural Iowa cancer service providers with expertise, assessment and evaluation, and technical assistance on evidence-based strategies for designing, implementing, and sustaining cancer-focused Hub and Spoke models for achieving success in the Combat Cancer Projects of Iowa's Rural Health Transformation Grant. Activities in the Combat Cancer initiative of the Healthy Hometowns project include the development of hub and spoke models for cancer care, including the development of rural provider strategic partnerships. This includes developing and implementing arrangements that include exchanging best practices and coordination of care (which includes but is not limited to remote care services), expanding access to specialty services in a financially sustainable manner, streamlining or centralizing functions to create cost savings, improving the financial viability of rural providers, preserving independence of rural providers, keeping care local in rural communities when possible and appropriate, and developing models of sustainability for rural cancer providers. Other efforts include the coordination of patient navigation and survivorship services and the oversight of fidelity to evidence-based cancer screening, treatment, and care coordination practices. The Contractor will also support long-term sustainability planning, including workforce development, tele-oncology integration, and alignment with Commission on Cancer (CoC) standards. This work implements a portion of the Combat Cancer: Prevent and Treat initiative of the Iowa Healthy Hometowns Project, funded through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Rural Health Transformation Program, opportunity #: CMS-RHT-26-001.

  Schedule of Important Dates (All times and dates listed are local Iowa time.) 

  The following dates are set forth for informational purposes. The Agency reserves the right to change them. 

  EVENT	DATE
  RFP Issued	December 8, 2025
  Written Questions and Responses
  Round 1 Questions Due:  Responses Posted By:	December 10, 2025  December 12, 2025
  Final Questions Due:  Responses Posted By:	December 17, 2025  December 19, 2025
  Applications Due	January 5, 2026, by 4:00 PM Local Iowa Time
  Applicant’s Oral Presentations, if requested by the Agency	Anticipated January 26, 2026, and January 27, 2026; subject to change at the Agency’s discretion
  Post Notice of Intent to Award	On or around February 2, 2026

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