High Risk Services to Support the Office of International Programs

The Forest Service, Washington Office for International Programs is seeking services of health and life insurance services for eligible individuals in the International Visitor Program. These individuals may come from anywhere in the world to visit the United States. Types of coverage include this request to provide health and accident insurance for participants in Fire & Aviation exchanges through which the participants are sometimes engaged in high risk activities such as firefighting, riding in fire trucks, small aircraft or helicopters, smoke jumping, etc. All policies must include coverage for program participants and their dependents which meets the minimum insurance coverage standards of the U.S. Department of State Exchange Visitor (J-1) Program. These can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations: 22 CFR 62.14 or on the U.S. Department of State website at: http://exchanges.state.gov/education/jexchanges/administration.htm#insurance. The resulting contract type will be a firm-fixed price Indefinite Quantity-Indefinite Delivery contract. Multiple awards may be made. The contract will include a base period plus four option periods. Minimum guarantee is $1,000.00 and maximum amount is $200,000 over the life of the contract. The solicitation should be posted on or before 3/24/2014. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 524114, and the size standard is $6.5 million annually. The point of contact for information regarding this solicitation is Cassandra Carey at 404-347-3975 or cncarey@fs.fed.us