Rural Health Transformation Program · State Procurement & Funding Profile
New Hampshire's roughly $204 million Rural Health Transformation Program award — the plan, the GO-NORTH office that runs it, the hub-organization contracts, the competitive evaluation award, with a dated log of official activity.
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New Hampshire's Year-1 award is approximately $204 million, its share of the federal $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. It is a five-year program, delivered through five initiatives carried out with contracted hub organizations. Federal RHTP dollars flow as sub-awards under 2 CFR Part 200 — the state's independent evaluation contract, for example, runs through September 30, 2031.
The program is run by GO-NORTH — Governor Kelly Ayotte's Office of New Opportunities & Rural Transformational Health, working with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under a memorandum of understanding. Program inquiries go to rhtf@dhhs.nh.gov. The GO-NORTH leadership named on recent evaluation panels includes Sarah Goss (Evaluation Lead), David Chorney (Financial Sustainability), Marisa Lara (Population Health) and Tom Broderick (Legal & Contracts).
GO-NORTH's stated goals are to make rural New Hampshire healthier through prevention, chronic-disease management, and improved behavioral and maternal health; ensure sustainable access by strengthening rural hospitals, health centers, EMS and telehealth; build and retain a skilled rural workforce; promote financial sustainability through innovative payment and value-based care; and modernize care delivery via technology, interoperability and data security. Key project tags include CCBHC Expansion, SUD Services and Elder Care Models.
New Hampshire is delivering its five initiatives largely through contracted hub organizations rather than a broad micro-grant slate. The hub organizations approved for grant period one include the Community Behavioral Health Association (CBHA), the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH), the Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA), the Foundation for Healthy Communities (FHC), and the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). Key project tags include CCBHC Expansion, SUD Services and Elder Care Models; the full allocation breakdown is in New Hampshire's budget narrative.
GO-NORTH's first competitive procurement, RFP 2026-001 (Evaluation Services), was awarded to NORC at the University of Chicago with a price limitation of $20,220,274, running through September 30, 2031; it went before the Governor and Executive Council on June 17, 2026. The field was deep — 15 firms bid, 10 cleared the 500-point technical minimum, and NORC topped the field on technical strength rather than low price. A second procurement, an Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Hardware, Software & Training RFP, was issued by USNH on behalf of UNH Manchester's Simulation Education Core. Hub-organization contracts for grant period one were approved through the Governor and Executive Council in March 2026. The running record is in the dispatches below.
New Hampshire's early competitive and hub-contract milestones (the March 2026 Governor and Executive Council approvals and the June 17, 2026 evaluation award) are now past. Contracts and awards move through the Governor and Executive Council calendar, and current opportunities post to the GO-NORTH contracts-and-awards and apply-for-funds pages. Upcoming dates surface first in the dispatches below.
The Rural Health Transformation Program was created by Section 71401 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (2025) and is administered federally by CMS. In New Hampshire, Governor Kelly Ayotte established GO-NORTH to lead the effort, and the Governor and Executive Council approved a GO-NORTH–DHHS memorandum of understanding and an Accept & Expend request for the grant funds. Federal RHTP dollars flow as sub-awards under 2 CFR Part 200. Detailed allocation figures are set out in New Hampshire's CMS-approved budget narrative.
Eligibility runs on two tracks. Direct-to-state contracts go out as competitive RFPs where firms bid as prime contractors — RFP 2026-001 (won by NORC) and the USNH AR/VR RFP are examples, and New Hampshire's evaluation award made clear that technical depth, not price, decides. Subgrants and subawards flow through the contracted hub organizations to rural providers — hospitals, health centers, behavioral-health and EMS providers — and it is here that technology vendors and consultants most often engage as subcontractors or implementation partners.
Watch the GO-NORTH contracts & awards and apply-for-funds pages, and track the DHHS RHTP hub.
Chronology of official activity compiled from automated monitoring of state sources, with personal review and verification. Links to primary documents and related Tracker analysis.
Independent reference profile compiled and maintained by Civic Operator LLC from primary sources (CMS, New Hampshire .gov program and procurement pages, the Governor's newsroom) and the Rural Health Transformation Grant Tracker. Official-source data and dispatch links refresh nightly; profiles are regenerated weekly from the latest reporting and changes reviewed before publication. Last reviewed 2026-07-30. · Methodology & sources · All states