SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- SMALL BUSINESS HEALTHCARE RESEARCH
- Notice Date
- 5/20/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Small Business Administration, Office of Administration, Office of Procurement and Grants Management, 409 Third Street, S.W., 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 20416
- ZIP Code
- 20416
- Solicitation Number
- SBAHQ-05-Q-0013
- Response Due
- 6/21/2005
- Archive Date
- 7/6/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The most recent Small Business Economic Trends published by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) continues to list the cost and availability of insurance as the single most important problem for small business. Although is it below its high from a year ago, nearly twice as many respondents choose it as their top problem compared to the second biggest issue, taxes. Health insurance as a problem has surfaced within the last two years as three years ago the cost and availability of health insurance was not even in the top three problems of the NFIB survey.This concern is testimony of how pricing and availability of health care plans are impacting small businesses offering of health insurance. Over the last two years, employees of small firms (fewer then 500 employees) experienced a drop in employer health insurance offerings, from 44 percent to 43 percent (special tabulations using the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March Supplement). (Note that large firm employees had a similar decline from 68 percent to 67 percent.) Similar findings can be found in the annual Kaiser Family Foundation?s annual survey on health employer benefits. This widely quoted source also shows that employer-sponsored health insurance premiums rose 11.2 percent between 2003 and 2004 ? the fourth consecutive year of double-digit gains. The Office of Advocacy seeks research to study the small business health insurance issue. Proposals should use datasources that focus on the firm size or the entirety of the business, not establishment size (or business location) data. Questions and answers for this procurement shall commence on May 30, 2005 and end on June 7, 2005. No questions after June 7, 2005. Questions MUST be email to the Contracting officer (billy.jenkins@sba.gov). Fax proposals will not be accepted
- Place of Performance
- Address: 409 3rd Street SW, Washington DC
- Zip Code: 20416
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 20416
- Record
- SN00812412-W 20050522/050520213019 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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