Providence's Board of Contract and Supply will consider five recovery, overdose-prevention and youth-prevention awards totaling $588,772.67 when it meets at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at City Hall. The largest is $175,000 for Rhode Island Communities for Addiction Recovery Efforts to run Recovery in the Parks. The board's agenda says each item is scheduled for discussion and possible vote or other action.
The total is our arithmetic. The agenda items carry the same account code, 277-0014-22-53420; the record does not say what fund that code represents.
The five awards
Recovery in the Parks: Rhode Island Communities for Addiction Recovery Efforts, low bidder, one-year contract with two one-year extension options, up to $175,000.
Treatment and Recovery Supports Infrastructure Enhancements Grants 2.0: up to $274,588 across four organizations: The Providence Center ($103,000), Family Service of Rhode Island ($91,000), Project Weber/RENEW ($57,708) and OpenDoors ($22,880).
Youth Empowerment Activities: Safe & Sober Alternatives: up to $74,085 across Youth In Action, Inc. ($38,323), Family Service of Rhode Island ($20,000) and Adoption Rhode Island ($15,762).
Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution and Anti-Stigma Training: Project Weber/RENEW, low bidder, one-year contract with two one-year extension options, up to $45,099.67.
Nourishing Recovery: West End Community Center, sole bidder, a one-year food security pilot, up to $20,000.
Each recommendation is dated Nov. 5. Project Weber/RENEW appears twice, for $102,807.67 by our arithmetic, and Family Service of Rhode Island twice, for $111,000.
Related items on the same agenda
The board will also see a change order adding $8,200 to the city's contract with Archipelago Strategies Group for a holiday and winter social media campaign on stimulant and opioid use prevention and mental health awareness aimed at college-age youth and young adults. The change order raises the contract's revised total to no more than $28,080.
A third option year with Family Services of Rhode Island for youth and adult mental health first aid trainings would cost $8,356.51 for each of fiscal 2027 and 2028, for a total of no more than $16,713.02, pending budget approval.
