Electronic Data Interchange Services

The State of Illinois, specifically the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission (IWCC), is seeking quotes for electronic data interchange (EDI) services. The IWCC requires a vendor to provide a jurisdictional hosting solution for standardized EDI services between the IWCC and entities required by law to submit workers' compensation injury reports and other information. The vendor shall provide an EDI software program for the IWCC to view daily EDI transactions, host the EDI software program on its own servers, and allow the IWCC access via the internet or WAN services. The system must support the IAIABC EDI Claims Release 3.1 in XML format, as required by the State of Illinois. The vendor shall perform various services, including setting up IWCC trading partner profiles, loading and editing FROI (First Report of Injury) and SROI (Subsequent Report of Injury) reports, creating and communicating acknowledgements, providing a web-based EDI data entry system, accepting electronic submissions from other vendors, setting up reporting capabilities, transferring "error free" FROI and SROI to the IWCC, conducting testing and providing enhancements, offering training and technical support, and providing a plan for backup and recovery. Vendors must have a minimum of 5 years of continuous active participation in the industry, providing comparable equipment/services. Quotes must remain valid for 90 days, and the winning vendor will be chosen based on the lowest quote.

The contract opportunity is open to all qualified vendors, but has certain requirements around hiring qualified veterans and Illinois residents discharged from adult correctional centers. There are no set-aside designations or restrictions on the types of organizations that can respond. The incumbent vendor or current contractor is not specified. The potential award value or budget range is also not provided in the available information.