Sources Sought
FY27 - EXPERT REVIEW BOARS
Department of Agriculture · Farm Production and Conservation Business Center · Sol. FY27-EXPERT-REVIEW-BOARDS
More open Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services contracts
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The USDA Risk Management Agency, working for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, wants to add more actuaries and insurance underwriters to its pool of Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs). Those people would independently review crop insurance policies and plans, with work based in Washington, DC. This is a Sources Sought (market research) notice, not a request for offers.
Watch out for
- Expert credentials, not company size, decide fit. Only firms with actuaries or underwriters who meet the long experience or credential tests can respond, so most small businesses without that staff are a poor fit.
- No commitment to buy. This is market research for a BPA pool; the Government may never issue an RFQ or make an award, and you pay your own response costs.
There is no commitment by the Government to issue
- Unreimbursed response costs. The agency will not pay for the information you send in.
USDA will not pay for information
- Unusually far-off response date. The response date is in September 2027, nearly a year after posting, so confirm the date with the contracting officer before planning around it.
Full brief
What they want
- Find qualified actuaries and/or underwriters to add to the FCIC pool of BPAs
- Independent reviews of crop insurance policies, plans of insurance and related material or changes to them
- Written responses showing how your company or people qualify as an actuary, an underwriter, or both
- Contract type
- Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) pool; no contract is being awarded from this notice
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC, USA
- Contract vehicle
- FCIC general pool of Blanket Purchase Agreements for Board-approved reviewers
- Offers due
- September 30, 2027 at 6:00am EST (the notice header gives 30 September 2027, 6:00 AM EST)
- How to submit
- Email a written response to the Contract Specialist (paige.appelt@usda.gov) and the Contracting Officer (kristina.baker@usda.gov)
What to include when you submit
- Include the Sources Sought number (FY27-Expert-Board-Reviews-01)
- Give company name, address, phone, CAGE code, NAICS and SAM UEI
- Confirm you are active in SAM or are taking steps to become active
- Give a company point of contact with name, email and phone
- State your size (large or small) and any small business category
- Explain how you qualify as an actuary, an underwriter, or both, using the notice definitions
- Mark anything proprietary as Proprietary; you are responsible for marking it
- Send questions in writing to the same two email addresses
You must have
- Qualify as an actuary: Casualty Actuarial Society fellow or associate, OR 10+ years setting crop insurance (or related lines) rates, OR 15+ years of rate-setting experience equal to the GS-1510 actuary series
membership, as either a fellow or associate, in the Casualty Actuarial Society
- Qualify as an underwriter: 10+ years as a crop insurance underwriter, 15+ years as a property and casualty underwriter in related fields, 15+ years as an agricultural risk management consultant, or a Ph.D. with 5+ years of post-doctoral work in crop insurance, agricultural risk management or a closely related field
years of professional level work experience as a crop insurance underwriter
- Be active in SAM.gov, or be actively taking steps to become active
Confirmation that vendor is active in SAM and/or is actively taking steps to be active in
Not in the notice text
- Estimated value or size of the individual BPA calls
- Length of the BPA agreements and ordering period
- How the FCIC Board will choose reviewers for the pool
- Whether any small business set-aside will apply to later orders (this notice says no set-aside)
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Key facts
- Response due
- Sep 30, 2027, 10:00 AM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 9, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Solicitation
- FY27-EXPERT-REVIEW-BOARDS
- Agency
- Department of Agriculture · Farm Production and Conservation Business Center
- Office
- Fpac Bus CNTR-Acq Div
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- NAICS
- 541690
- Product/service code
- G008
- Business type
- Consulting & professional services
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC, 20250
- Contracting contact
- Paige Appeltpaige.appelt@usda.gov2104725524
What similar contracts paid
4 contracts at this agency under the same NAICS code, in the same state, had activity in the last 5 years, according to USAspending.gov. Small businesses won 100% of the dollars in this market over the last 3 fiscal years.
Typical contract$280KMiddle half: $38.7K to $578K
Typical per year$136KValue divided by years of performance
Before you respond
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Sources Sought Attached
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