Health & Life Insurance Services for Locally Employed Staff of the U.S. Mission in Belize

This a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for Health and Life Insurance Services.  If you would like to submit a quotation, follow the instructions in Section 3 of the solicitation, complete the required portions of the attached document, and submit it to the address shown on the Standard Form 1449 that follows this letter.

The U.S. Government intends to award a purchase order to the responsible company submitting an acceptable offer at the lowest price.  We intend to award a purchase order based on initial quotations, 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-quotation conference at the site, The pre-proposal conference will be held on October 15, 2026 at 9:00 am (local time) at the US Embassy in Belmopan. Prospective offerors/quoters should send an email to GillettER@state.gov by October 8, 2026 for additional information or to arrange entry to the building.

Quotations are due on November 4, 2026 at 5:00 pm (local time). No quotations will be accepted after this time. Proposals must be in English and incomplete proposals will not be accepted.

Your quotation must be submitted electronically to GillettER@state.gov. It is important to make sure the submission is made in the  specified 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.  The email subject line must read “Solicitation 19BH2026Q0028”.

In order for a quotation to be considered, you must also complete and submit the following:

1. SF-1449
2. Section I, Pricing
3. Section 5 Representations and Certifications
4. Additional information as required in Section 3
5. The Offeror should submit a completed IRS Form W-14, found at www.irs.gov/w14, to ensure compliance with FAR 52.229-11
6. Proof of SAM Registration

Notwithstanding FAR 4.203-1(b)(5)(ii), the Contracting Officer has determined that it is in the best interest of the U.S. Government that offerors be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) database at https://www.sam.gov at the time of submitting a proposal.