Vend Services to State Services for the Blind

The Department of Employment and Economic Development (“DEED”), State Services for the Blind (“SSB”) requests applications to provide Adjustment To Blindness (“ATB”) and other rehabilitation training, employment-related services, and pre-employment transition services (“Pre-ETS”) to Applicants and eligible blind, low vision and DeafBlind customers (“Applications”). “Applicants” refers to individuals who have applied for services through the Vocational Rehabilitation (“VR”) program and have not yet been determined eligible.

It is the goal of this project that SSB customers have available to them community resources that DEED will purchase on their behalf so that they may achieve vocational and personal independence. An important aspect of this project is that the pool of resources is sufficient to offer customers a breadth of choices from which to make their informed selection.

Proposals for the initial evaluation period (21-day publication) must be received by 4:30 p.m., Central Time (CT), Monday, June 29, 2026 . Proposals are welcomed beyond June 29, 2026 until November 30, 2026 ("Close Date").

For a copy of the full solicitation, please click here or email Jennifer Beilke, State Program Administrator, Jennifer.Beilke@state.mn.us