U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Purchasing Division, Room 1230, 844 North Rush Street, Chicago, IL 60611

Q -- DISABILITY EXAMINATION SERVICES SOL 97B2 DUE 050197 POC Mr. Howard Nagle (312) 751-4536. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is a Federal agency that administers a disability annuity program for the nation's railroad workers. The RRB is seeking a firm to schedule and conduct medical examinations and ancillary tests for RRB claimants and beneficiaries applying for disability annuities and to report examination findings to the RRB in a prescribed format. The Contractor must conduct specified examinations and tests in strict adherence to guidelines detailed in the solicitation. That documents will also address the timeliness of response to examination requests, adequacy of submitted reports, cost effectiveness, program safeguards, and the existence of a verifiable accounting system. The RRB will seek vendor proposals to provide either nationwide or RRB defined regional coverage. Physicians in the firm's network must be geographically located throughout the United States to provide these examinations and tests at minimum inconvenience to RRB beneficiaries. The RRB does not intend to contract with individual medical practitioners. The Contractor will be required to provide the full range of services outlined in the solicitation during a potential sixty (60) month period beginning October 1, 1997. (0072)

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