LES Health Insurance

The Embassy of the United States in Antananarivo, Madagascar, will release a solicitation to request the services of a contractor to provide Health Insurance for local employees of the US Embassy. This solicitation is not ready to be issued as of this date. The resultant contract will be a fixed unit price requirements type contract under which will be issued firm fixed price task orders, for a base year with four (04) year options. The estimated number of employees is 307 with approximatively 953 eligible dependents. Please note that these are only estimated quantities. All responsible sources may submit a quotation which will be considered. No paper copies will be mailed. All responsible sources may submit an offer, which shall be considered, but electronic submissions will not be accepted. The Government intends to award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the lowest priced technically acceptable offeror who is a responsible contractor. The Government may award the contract based on the initial offer without discussion. The Government is planning a pre-proposal conference and the date for this conference will be in the solicitation. All contractors have to be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) Database https://www.sam.gov , prior to contract award pursuant to FAR provision 52.204-7. Therefore prospective offerors are encouraged to register prior to the submittal of proposals. The guidelines for registration in SAM are also available at: https://www.statebuy.state.gov/pd/Pages/AdditionalVendorReg.aspx The Government plans to issue the solicitation on or about March 15, 2017. The proposal due date will be set forth in the solicitation.