Presolicitation
GMC Health Insurance
Department of State
AI summaryPresolicitation (an early heads-up): the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, plans to buy health insurance coverage for its Locally Employed (LE) staff. The solicitation is not ready to be issued, and SAM.gov gives no response date. The planned contract is firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) with economic price adjustment (the price can change under set rules), for a base year plus four one-year options and one six-month option. More in the summary
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Presolicitation (an early heads-up): the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, plans to buy health insurance coverage for its Locally Employed (LE) staff. The solicitation is not ready to be issued, and SAM.gov gives no response date. The planned contract is firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) with economic price adjustment (the price can change under set rules), for a base year plus four one-year options and one six-month option.
Who can bid
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) before submitting an offer
How to submit: Email, once the solicitation is posted on SAM.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 16, 2026.
- Worth checking: Work and coverage are outside the United States. The coverage is for staff in Thailand, and the text says the opportunity is subject to the tax on certain foreign procurements clause; host-country licensing, currency and local presence rules are not stated.
- Minor: Pre-quotation conference planned. The conference date will be set in the solicitation, so check it once posted.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Provide health insurance coverage for Locally Employed (LE) staff of the Embassy in Thailand
- Take part in a pre-quotation conference, date to be announced in the solicitation
- Submit an offer by email when the solicitation is posted on SAM.gov
- Contract type
- Planned firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract with economic price adjustment
- Period of performance
- Base year, 4 one-year options and 1 six-month option, if exercised by the Government (up to 5.5 years)
- Place of performance
- Thailand (outside the United States)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How to submit
- Email, once the solicitation is posted on SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) before submitting an offer, as FAR provision 52.204-7 requires
- Keep each offer email under 25 MB, and send more than one email if needed
Not in the notice text
- Response due date: SAM.gov gives none
- Date and format of the pre-quotation conference, and whether attending is required
- How offers will be evaluated and what an offer must contain
- Whether the insurer needs a Thai license or local office, and the currency of offers
- Number of staff and family members to be covered
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email, once the solicitation is posted on SAM.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 16, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- US Embassy Bangkok
- Product/service code
- G007 · Social – Government Health Insurance Programs
- Business type
- Consulting & professional services (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 524114)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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