Health & Life Insurance Services for Locally Employed Staff of the U.S. Mission in Belize
Department of State · U.S.EMBASSY BELMOPAN
Account requiredWhy it scored this way
Every reason behind the verdict rather than the headline one — which of your certifications match, how much runway is left, whether the work is your size, and what we would need to know to sharpen it.
The requirements that decide a bid — bonding, clearances, experience minimums, page limits — live in the attachments, not in the notice above. Start a free trial to upload them and have them read.
Draft the paperwork
Written against this notice and what you have told us about your company. Anything we do not know is marked [NEEDS INPUT] in the draft rather than guessed at — read it before you send it. Federal notices routinely put the real requirement in an attachment; adding the documents above makes every one of these materially better.
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What would disqualify you
Read straight from the solicitation documents: the bonding, clearances, insurance minimums, experience thresholds and deadlines that decide whether you can bid at all — before you write a word.
Compliance matrix
Every stated and implied requirement, its source section, whether it is mandatory, and where your response will address it.
Proposal outline
A submission skeleton where every required element is a heading with its source requirement quoted beneath it. You write the substance; nothing gets forgotten.
Questions to submit
Genuine ambiguities and requirements that disadvantage a smaller bidder, drafted as questions you can submit before the Q&A deadline.
Past performance write-ups
Which of your prior awards best match this requirement, and draft write-ups in the format the agency asked for.
Solicitation details
Solicitation number
19BH2026Q0028
Notice type
Solicitation
NAICS
524114
Product service code
G009
Set-aside
No Set aside used
Posted
2026-10-05
Response deadline
Nov 4, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC
Place of performance
Belmopan, BZ-CY
Contracting contact
KhalilSK@state.gov
Market intelligence
Account requiredWho wins this work, and what it pays
Comparable awards under NAICS 524114 at this agency — the incumbent, what they were paid, when their period of performance ends, and the real pricing distribution rather than the headline number. From public federal award records.
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: SF-1449 Section I, Pricing Section 5 Representations and Certifications Additional information as required in Section 3 The Offeror should submit a completed IRS Form W-14, found at www.irs.gov/w14, to ensure compliance with FAR 52.229-11 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.
Contact
Point of contact
Salman Khalil
Role
not stated on this notice — SAM publishes a role for only about 5% of them, so this may be a contract specialist rather than the contracting officer
Email
KhalilSK@state.gov
Secondary
GillettER@state.gov
Submit questions
Ambiguities and requirements worth clarifying, written as questions you can send before the deadline.
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