(1) Vendor needs to provide strategic and professional advisory services.– Provide professional services in support of its mandate to strengthen agency mental health and addiction system. – Mental health and addiction strategic advisory services play a vital role in supporting agency by offering broad–based expertise to enhance state mental health and addiction systems. – Project implementation support facilitates the design, execution, and monitoring of strategic and operational projects. – Evaluations and applied research this service category focuses on program evaluation, applied research, and data analytics to inform evidence–based decision–making. – Medical writers this service category focuses on preparing scientific and technical documents, including peer–reviewed manuscripts and research summaries.