Request for Proposal: New Mexico Interagency Behavioral Health Purchasing Collaborative

The State of New Mexico is seeking to establish a statewide system for behavioral health (BH) through the collaboration and association with a single statewide contractor. The existing behavioral health care delivery systems in New Mexico present a fragmented and uncoordinated array of services via multiple funding streams and offer varying degrees of accessibility and quality of service delivery. Across New Mexico's multiple behavioral health care systems as a whole, there has been a decrease in or lack of development of four critical service provision areas: (1) community and home-based services for adults, children and their families; (2) the number of child psychiatrists and other critical behavioral health professionals; (3) overall capacity of behavioral management and rehabilitative services; and (4) overall capacity of case management and intensive outpatient services for adults.