SBD20015R001_Questions_and_Answers.pdf

Questions and Answers

U.S Consulate Hamilton

Health Insurance Solicitation

SBD20015R001

Question 1: Is this a follow on requirement? If so please provide the incumbent contract number for this opportunity? If not, is this a new requirement?

Answer: The company currently providing the health insurance services to the Consulate is

BF&M Life Insurance Company Limited. While these are not new services, due to the number of changes in the solicitation requirements and terms and conditions the information included in the previous contract is not considered relevant.

Question 2: Has a contractor performed similar work to this for the government in the past? If available, please provide the incumbent contract number?

Answer: please see the answer to question 1.

The claims data, premium history and loss data provided in response to the questions below are provided for informational purposes and under no circumstances shall it be construed to change any terms or conditions or requirements within the solicitation.

In addition, for any answer provided regarding claims data incurred under the existing contract, please be advised that the benefits levels are not the same nor may this data be indicative of future claims. Therefore, it is each offeror’s decision on whether to use or not to use this information. However, under no circumstances shall the U.S. Government be liable for this data or shall it become the basis for a request to adjust the premium rates once the contract is awarded. Rather, offerors are advised any adjustments to contract premium rates shall be in accordance with the Price Adjustment clause B.4.

Question 3: Please provide three year premium history for the group.

Answer: Premium History:

YEAR PREMIUM PAID

2011 $343,728.00

2012 $427,471.00

2013 $488,545.00

Question 4: Please provide three year claims history for the group.

Answer: Claims History:

YEAR CLAIMS HISTORY

2011 $344,754.00

2012 $517,291.00

2013 $606,898.00

Question 5: Please provide list of Items, Schedule of Requirements, Scope of Work, Terms of

Reference, Bill of Materials Required.

Answer: The entire solicitation can be downloaded from FedBizOpps. Also, this is health insurance solicitation so there is no bill of materials. https://www.fbo.gov/

Question 6: Please provide Soft Copy of the Tender Document through email

Answer: The US Government is not mailing or emailing copies of the solicitation as you can download a copy of the entire solicitation from FedBizOpps.

Question 7: Please provide names of countries that will be eligible to participate in this tender.

Answer: This acquisition is unrestricted and all responsible interested offerors may submit an offer.

Question 8: Please provide information about the Tendering Procedure and Guidelines.

Answer: Please see the Cover Letter and Section L of the solicitation for instructions for the submission of offers.

Question 9: Please provide estimated budget for this purchase.

Answer: The estimated budget is not releasable.

Question 10: Please provide details of any extension of bidding deadline.

Answer: Proposal due date extension is currently not anticipated at this time.

Question 11: Please provide any addendum or pre-bid meeting minutes.

Answer: Although a Pre-proposal conference was schedule but there were no attendees.

Question 12: Please provide three years of loss data by year of account including three years net premium, incurred claim and membership history. For membership history please provide the number of Employees with single coverage and with family coverage at the end of each https://www.fbo.gov/ year. Please do not include any confidential information, just the overall statistics for the group.

Answer:

Membership History:

EMPLOYEE ONLY EMPLOYEE AND

UNEMPLOYED

SPOUSE

EMPLOYEE,

UNEMPLOYED

SPOUSE AND

CHILDREN

EMPLOYEE AND

CHILDREN

21 1 1 4

Premium history and Claim history – Please see Questions 3 and 4.

Loss data:

YEAR LOSS DATA

2011 100.3%

2012 121.01%

2013 124.23%

Question 13: Please advise if you have been informed of catastrophic cases presented last year, such as: Hemodynamics, Open Heart Surgery, Orthopedic Mayor Surgeries, Organ

Transplant, Traumatic Accident, Cancer and Oncology Cases (Radio and Chemotherapy), and hospitalizations with more than 10 days.

Answer: Yes, prospective offerors are advised specific illnesses or conditions of employees and their dependents are not releasable but any claims would be included under the answer to question 4.

Question 14: Are any employees or dependents currently hospitalized, confined at home or a treatment facility, disabled or incapacitated?

question 4.

Question 15: Are any employees or dependents currently pregnant?

Answer: Our Human Resources Office has not been informed of any pregnancies.

Question 16: Are any employees or dependents not actively at work performing his/her normal duties due to illness, injury or other medical/health condition?

Answer: Not all employees are actively at work. Prospective offerors are advised specific illnesses or conditions of employees and their dependents are not releasable but any claims would be included under the answers to question 4.

Question 17: Are you aware of any circumstances, chronic, or continuing medical, mental or nervous conditions which can be expected to produce ongoing claims for any employees or dependents.

Question 4.

Question 18: What is expected start date?

Answer: Please see Section F, paragraph F.2 Period of Performance which states June 1, 2015.