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Budget & Fiscal Advisory Committee recommends two contract amendments totaling $1.75 million for data hosting and school suicide-prevention training
Summary
The committee voted to recommend a $245,720 amendment to extend the commission’s IBridge data-hosting contract and a $1.5 million amendment with the Center for Applied Research Solutions to develop culturally responsive, trauma-informed K–12 suicide-prevention training; the CARS vote carried with one abstention and both recommendations will go to the full commission in January.
The Budget & Fiscal Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission voted on December 2025 to recommend two expenditure authorizations that together total $1,745,720.
The first measure, a request from staff, would amend contract 23MHSOAC020 with IBridge for $245,720 to extend hosting and maintenance of the commission’s data infrastructure. Lauren Quintero, acting deputy director of administration and performance management, told commissioners the contract “supports all commission data assets, including state partner data, our SAS analytics environments, and Tableau dashboards” and said losing the vendor would “risk losing access to…
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