· #20261015 · Health Care and Social Assistance
Weekly Feed of School and Athletic Therapy Staffing RFPs
A business that sells to therapy and athletic training staffing agencies
A weekly list of school districts and sports programs that are asking for bids on outside therapists or athletic trainers.
I lost a three-year district contract because I never saw the bid notice buried on a county procurement portal.
The idea
A paid weekly email and searchable archive that aggregates requests for proposals and bid notices from school districts, community colleges, park districts and athletic conferences seeking contracted PT, OT, speech, athletic training or event medical services. Each listing is tagged by state, discipline, contract length and due date, with the incumbent vendor named when public records show it. Sourced by scraping procurement portals and public board minutes, with a light manual review before send.
The customer
A therapy and athletic training staffing agency places physical, occupational and speech therapists, athletic trainers and massage therapists on contract with school districts, sports teams and events that need coverage but do not employ their own clinicians. It is usually run by a former therapist or athletic trainer who now spends the day recruiting, scheduling, checking licenses and invoicing instead of treating patients.
Also called school-based therapy staffing, event medical and massage staffing, contract athletic trainer service. Here is what a therapy & athletic training staffing agency spends on and what goes wrong for them, which is where this idea came from.
What they spend on
- Clinician credentialing, license and CEU tracking system
- Shift scheduling, dispatch and timesheet app for per-diem staff
- School district and athletic program contract bidding support
- Event medical kits, taping supplies and portable treatment tables
- Background checks, fingerprinting and immunization records
- Professional liability coverage for contracted clinicians
- Recruiting pipeline for PTs, OTs, SLPs, athletic trainers and massage therapists
- Per-diem payroll and 1099 contractor payment workflows
- Emergency action plan and concussion protocol documentation
What goes wrong for them
- Filling contracted hours when a clinician calls out
- Seasonal athletic calendars creating idle summer capacity
- Districts and teams paying on long invoice cycles
- Clinicians hired away directly by the client site
- Credential expirations pulling staff off assignment
Industry: Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists (NAICS 621340).