# Rural Cybersecurity Modernization Assessment

Seeks a qualified contractor to assess and modernize cybersecurity for approximately eighty rural healthcare facilities (focus on skilled nursing). Includes security assessments, architecture recommendations, and training.

## Key facts

- Status: Closed
- Type: RFP
- Issued by: Idaho Department of Health & Welfare (Idaho)
- Posted: 2026-06-17
- Questions due: 2026-06-25
- Application due: 2026-07-16
- Funding: $2.0M
- Eligible applicants: Nonprofit, Public Entity, Quasi-public Entity, Qualified Private Entity, Idaho University
- How to apply: Electronic submission via the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare Public Documents Portal: https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/
- Funding source: Rural Health Transformation Program (CMS)
- Official source: https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/WebLink/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=36647&dbid=0&repo=PUBLIC-DOCUMENTS

## Eligibility

Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, public or quasi-public entities, and qualified private entities with demonstrated experience and success in comparable projects of similar scale and complexity. Idaho universities are also eligible.

## Requirements

Applicants must meet the requirements detailed in the RFP, including the ability to conduct comprehensive security assessments, offer architecture and training recommendations, and support at least eighty rural healthcare facilities. Experience with data backbone creation, evaluation design, logic models, and reporting for public health transformation initiatives is required.

## Required attachments

- Technical Proposal
- Budget Proposal
- Staffing Plan
- Corporate Qualifications
- References

## Application package and source documents

- [ID - 2026 - RHTP Funding Opportunity Overviews (ID - 2026 - funding opportunity overviews)](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api/documents/a3694678-6adc-477d-99ec-88b795737511/file) — official: https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/WebLink/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=36647&dbid=0&repo=PUBLIC-DOCUMENTS
- [ID - 2026 - Funding Opportunities for RHT (Idaho funding opportunities page)](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api/documents/700c7dfe-4cb6-4434-bf07-0559bc9825f0/file) — official: https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/providers/rural-health-transformation-program-grant/funding-opportunities-rural-health
- [ID - 2026 - RHTP Funding Opportunities - Current and Coming Up as of June 2026 (Stakeholder call slides (timeline and award context))](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api/documents/d659e6da-1e75-4c4d-bb88-50de6b156f99/file) — official: https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/WebLink/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=36810&dbid=0&repo=PUBLIC-DOCUMENTS
- [ID - 2026 - Rural Cybersecurity Modernization Assessment](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api/documents/48807785-eb6a-4550-b4c1-448b972cdf0a/file) (primary) — official: https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/WebLink/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=36847&dbid=0&repo=PUBLIC-DOCUMENTS

More Idaho RHTP activity: https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states/id (markdown: https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states/id.md)

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Source: Rural Care Journey (RCJ), https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/opportunities/rural-cybersecurity-modernization-assessment--c643d64b9e — data as of 2026-08-18.
Cite the RCJ page for the summary and the linked official source for authoritative terms, deadlines, and amounts.