Pre-Solicitation_Conference_notice.doc

Pre-Solicitation Conference for the Indemnity Benefit Plan What is the purpose of the Pre-Solicitation Conference?

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) contracts for insurance benefits for more than eight million Federal employees, retirees and their families. In this capacity, OPM will issue a request for proposals (RFP) from qualified health insurance carriers to offer the Indemnity Benefit Plan under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program with coverage commencing January 1, 2020. The plan will be offered under the contracting authority granted to OPM under 5 U.S.C. § 8902.

OPM is seeking innovative proposals from a carrier or a group of carriers to increase market competition in the FEHB Program. We are not seeking plans that replicate the offerings already available in the FEHB Program. Your proposal should provide an offering that is meaningfully different than other FEHB Program plans. That is, potentially through different enrollee out-of-pocket costs to incentivize appropriate medical care, high-performing networks to incentivize better value at lower costs, or through innovative medical or pharmacy delivery systems, etc. We recognize that the healthcare delivery system is continuously evolving at an ever increasing rate, and healthcare coverage needs to continue to evolve to meet the needs of the market.

Our agency priority goal is to improve the quality and affordability of FEHB Program Plan offerings. We will meet this goal through greater competition among health plans, more choice for better informed FEHB Program consumers, and by incentivizing quality and affordability in this plan and other FEHB Program plans through the OPM Plan Performance Assessment methodology and our bilateral negotiation with FEHB Program Carriers.

The purpose of this conference is to obtain industry feedback on the draft statement of work for this competition and to provide industry an opportunity to ask questions.

When and where will the conference be held?

June 12, 20018, beginning at 1:00 p.m. EST at the Office of Personnel Management, Campbell Auditorium, Theodore Roosevelt Building (TRB), 1900 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20415-1000.

Who Should Attend?

Interested parties who have registered for the conference. Please be aware that seating in the Campbell Auditorium is limited to 275. Only registered attendees will be admitted to the TRB at the visitor entrance on E Street.

What is the registration fee?

There is no registration fee.

How can I register?

To register for the conference, please send an email to IBP@opm.gov. Write “Conference Registration” in the Subject line. In the body of the email, please include the following information:

· Name

· Company

· Title

· Phone number

· Email address Transportation OPM is conveniently located near the Farragut West or Foggy Bottom Metro stops. For Metro information, please visit: http://www.wmata.com. Commercial parking in the surrounding area is expensive and limited. In general, parking is limited to two-hour metered street parking, and spaces are not readily available.

The Agenda for the Conference is attached.

Office of Personnel Management Indemnity Benefit Plan Pre-Solicitation Conference June 12, 2018

Panelists Cindy Butler

- OPM, Deputy Associate Director, Federal Employees Insurance Operations Ed DeHarde

- OPM, Assistant Director, Federal Employees Insurance Operations Brenna Scheidemann

- OPM, Sr. Actuary, Office of the Actuaries, Healthcare & Insurance Delon Pinto

- OPM, Policy Analyst, Healthcare & Insurance

Other Information

· Visitors will only be allowed to enter via the E Street entrance. Please bring your photo ID. Please allow up to 20 minutes to get through security to enter the building.

· All questions should be submitted in writing by June 8, 2018 to IBP@opm.gov. We will attempt to provide interim answers to all questions submitted after June 8, 2018.

· If you have any questions concerning this notice, please send them to: IBP@opm.gov