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The requirement is to provide health and life insurance services for an estimate of 210 local employee staff (LES) of the U.S. Embassy Panama.

The anticipated performance is for a base year, with four one-year option periods, if exercised by the Government. All responsible sources may submit an offer, which will be considered.

The Government intends to award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the lowest priced technically acceptable offeror who is a responsible contractor. The Government may award the contract based on the initial offer without discussion. The resultant contract will be an Indefinite-Delivery/requirements type contract.

The Government is planning a pre-proposal conference and the date for this conference is in the solicitation and the invitation letter.

All contractors must be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) Database https://www.sam.gov prior to submitting an offer pursuant to FAR provision 52.204-7. Therefore, prospective offerors are encouraged to register prior to the submittal of quotations/proposals.

Electronic Submission/Responses:

This opportunity allows for electronic responses. Please submit your offer prior to the response date and time. It is important to make sure the submission is made in specific size and format; in MS-Word 2007/2010 or MS-Excel 2007/2010 or 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.