Utah is on the hunt for crisis communications support after the state's Department of Technology Services suffered a data breach last month that included personal health information from individuals and healthcare providers.
An emergency RFP was released May 11, open through May 21, for a contract worth from $100K-$200K to develop a crisis communications plan and provide "high-level crisis communication counsel" related to the breach.
An estimated 750K may have been affected by the breach. As many as 280,000 people had their social security numbers stolen and up to 500,000 were robbed of less-sensitive information in the incident.
The state is providing free credit monitoring and identity theft insurance to victims. But only a small percentage of people (about 25K as of May 8) have taken advantage of the emergency support.
View the RFP (PDF).