Vital Strategies strives to purchase high-quality goods and services at the best value in a timely and transparent manner, which includes the publication of all solicitations. All of our open solicitations for business and consulting opportunities are listed in this section for any prospective supplier to see and consider. Instructions on how to respond are included within each solicitation.

Current Opportunities

These solicitations are for goods and services to be provided to Vital Strategies in any countries it works in.

North Carolina Community-Powered Overdose Prevention RFP

Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal

Due Date: January 31, 2025

Site of Work: United States

Description:

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
Vital Strategies is partnering with Frontline Solutions to request proposals from organizations led and powered by Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities in North Carolina that are seeking to adopt or deepen the use of harm reduction principles to reduce the incidence of negative health effects and the number of fatal overdoses among Black, Indigenous, and Latine people who use drugs (PWUD).

This funding initiative will award grants of $25,000 and $50,000, with total funding available set at $1,000,000. Funding will be for one year, with projects starting in April 2025. Organizations can only apply for one grant funding amount.

FUNDING ELIGIBILITY
Organizations applying for this grant opportunity must be:
–A 501(c)(3), a business, a Tribal government, or a fiscally-sponsored organization. If your organization neither holds a 501(c)(3), business, or Tribal government status nor is fiscally sponsored, yet maintains sound fiscal recordkeeping practices, we invite you to contact us. We are open to considering alternative demonstrations of fiscal responsibility on a case-by-case basis.
–Engaged with under-resourced communities in North Carolina, prioritizing predominantly Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities, rural areas, and/or communities struggling to access opioid settlement funds.

Learn more via the PDF linked below.

Road Injury Surveillance Consultant

Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal from independent consultants

Due Date: January 27, 2025

Site of Work: Kenya

Description: Vital Strategies seeks an experienced consultant who will engage closely with our road injury surveillance team and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), Kenya, to produce a comprehensive national road safety report, and support our road injury surveillance systems strengthening work in Mombasa County.

Community Engagement Consultant to support “Coalition for a Safer Albuquerque” community-led overdose prevention policy agenda

Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal from independent consultants

Due Date: January 31, 2025

Site of Work: United States

Description: Vital Strategies is seeking to hire a Community Engagement Consultant to work with the Coalition for a Safer Albuquerque, aiming to develop and implement a local behavioral health strategy in response to the overdose crisis. This full-time, 18-month position involves equity-centered community engagement, public meeting facilitation, and intensive outreach to expand behavioral health and substance use services in the Greater Albuquerque area.