Life Insurance for Embassy Bogota
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General Information
- Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (Original)
- Original Published Date: May 10, 2023 02:27 pm UTC-05
- Original Date Offers Due: Sep 07, 2023 04:00 pm UTC-05
- Inactive Policy: 15 days after date offers due
- Original Inactive Date: Sep 22, 2023
- Initiative:
- None
Classification
- Original Set Aside:
- Product Service Code:
- NAICS Code:
- Place of Performance: COL
Description
Dear Prospective Offeror:
Subject: Request for Proposals Number 19C02023R0001 Life Insurance Services for the Locally Employed Staff in the U.S. Embassy in Bogota
The Embassy of the United States of America invites you to submit a proposal for locally employed staff life insurance coverage. The Embassy encourages prospective offerors to offer off-the-shelf plans that meet at least the minimum benefit levels required in this solicitation.
The U.S. Government intends to award a contract to the responsible company submitting an acceptable offer at the lowest price. We intend to award a contract based on initial proposals, without holding discussions, although we may hold discussions with companies in the competitive range if there is a need to do so.
The Embassy intends to conduct a pre-proposal conference at the site. The pre-proposal conference will be held on June 8, 2023 at 10AM (local time) at the U.S. Embassy at Cra 45 # 24B-27 in Bogota, Colombia. Prospective offerors should contact Edwin Agudelo by Monday June 5 at 4PM for additional information or to arrange entry to the building.
Proposals are due by Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 4PM. No proposals will be accepted after this time. Proposals must be in English and incomplete proposals will not be accepted.
Your proposal must be submitted electronically to the following email addresses bogotagsocompras@state.gov . agudeloey@state.gov , riveras@state.gov It is important to make sure the submission is made in specific size and format; in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file format. The file size must not exceed 30MB. If the file size should exceed the 30MB, the submission must be made in separate files and attached to separate emails with less than 30MB each.
In order for a quotation to be considered, you must also complete and submit the following:
1. SF-33
2. Section B, Pricing Schedule.
3. Section B, Retention Amounts in B.3 and B.7.
4. Section K, Representations and Certifications; and
5. Additional information as required in Section L.
6. The Offeror should submit a completed IRS Form W-14, found at www.irs.gov/w14, to ensure compliance with
FAR 52.22911;
7. Proof of SAM Registration
Offerors shall be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) database at https://www.sam.gov prior to submittal of their offer/proposal as prescribed under FAR 4.1102. Failure to be registered at time of proposal submission may deem the offeror’s proposal to be considered non-responsible and no further consideration will be given. Therefore, offerors are highly encouraged to register immediately if they are interested in submitting a response to this requirement.
Attachments/Links
Contact Information
Primary Point of Contact
- Bogota Contracting Office
- BogotaGSOCompras@state.gov
Secondary Point of Contact
- Edwin Agudelo
- agudeloey@state.gov
- Phone Number 573212279620