CALCULATION OF ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING FACTORS FOR POST-RETIREMENT HEALTH CARE BENEFITS. On behalf of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness), Office of the Actuary, in accordance with FAR Part 6, Defense Supply Service -- Washington intends to award a follow-on contract on a sole source basis to Milliman and Robertson, Vienna VA. The contract is for the calculation of accrual accounting factors for post-retirement health care benefits delivered by DoD to military personnel and their dependents and survivors. Additionally, contractor will provide support to DoD in responding to DoD Inspector General and General Accounting Office audits of the actuarial liability calculation, as well as in working towards the DoD/OMB high-priority goal of obtaining a clean audit opinion on the actuarial liability estimate. Calculations must be consistent with prior efforts and/or incorporate refinements agreed to by joint DoD-audit community working group; must appropriately reflect trends over time in the Military Health System (MHS) in terms of both MHS experience and benefit structure; must appropriately incorporate DoD Office of the Actuary methologies, assumptions, and procedures; and must be provided in sufficient time for inclusion in DoD's annual financial statements. Further, contractor will conduct sensitivity analyses of the calculation as needed, and provide the DoD Office of the Actuary products required for it to conduct its own sensitivity studies. The project requires comprehensive knowledge of the MHS, MHS data systems, and healthcare/actuarial trends experienced in MHS; familiarity with history of past efforts and conclusions of joint DoD-audit community working group studying these calculations; extensive experience working with and studying MHS data for purposes of calculating military-specific accrual accounting factors; extensive, technical knowledge of and experience working with DoD Office of the Actuary methologies, assumptions, and procedures; and a military-retirement-health-care-specific model for use in the calculations. There is no solicitation document. Interested parties may complete Capabilities Statement and submit to: Defense Supply Service -- Washington, Attention: Sandra Royal, Team E-2, Contracts Directorate, 5200 Army Pentagon, Washington 20310. You may fax your Capabilities Statement to 703-681-0289 or email to royalsl@hqda.army.mil. The Capabilities Statement must be received by this office within 45 days from publication of this notice. No telephone inquires. E-MAIL: Click here for Contract Specialist email., royalsl@hqda.army.mil. Posted 04/24/00 (W-SN447913).

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