Sources Sought
FY27 - Expert Review Boards
Department of Agriculture · Farm Production and Conservation Business Center
More open Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services contracts
AI summaryThis is a sources sought notice (a market check, not a solicitation) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find actuaries and underwriters for a pool of Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs: standing agreements for repeat orders). They would review crop insurance policies for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) Board, with the Risk Management Agency (RMA) named as the program office. The response due date is September 30, 2027, 6:00 AM Eastern, by email. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Farm Production and Conservation Business Center who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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This is a sources sought notice (a market check, not a solicitation) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find actuaries and underwriters for a pool of Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs: standing agreements for repeat orders). They would review crop insurance policies for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) Board, with the Risk Management Agency (RMA) named as the program office. The response due date is September 30, 2027, 6:00 AM Eastern, by email.
Who can bid
- Qualify as an actuary: Casualty Actuarial Society membership (fellow or associate), or at least 10 years of professional crop insurance (or similar lines) rate-setting, or at least 15 years of insurance premium rate-setting experience
- Or qualify as an underwriter: at least 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 related post-doctoral work
- Be active in SAM or be taking steps to become active
How to submit: Email written responses to Contract Specialist paige.appelt@usda.gov and Contracting Officer kristina.baker@usda.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 15, 2026.
- Serious: Strict actuary or underwriter qualifications. A response must show how the company meets the notice's actuary or underwriter definitions, which require 10 to 15 years of specific experience, a Casualty Actuarial Society membership or a Ph.D.
- Worth checking: Information request only; no award promised. The Government makes no commitment to issue a request for quotations (RFQ) or make an award, and it does not pay for responses.
- Worth checking: Entry is through a Board-approved BPA pool. Sources are added to the pool only as the FCIC Board determines is necessary, so a response does not guarantee a place in the pool.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- Sources Sought.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Identify private-sector sources that can act as independent reviewers of crop insurance policies and plans of insurance
- Add qualified actuaries (specialists who work out insurance premium rates) and underwriters (specialists who decide which insurance risks to accept) to the existing pool of BPAs
- Collect each company's basic information and a statement of how it qualifies as an actuary, an underwriter or both
- Contract type
- Sources sought notice for adding sources to a general pool of Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs); no solicitation yet
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC, USA
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Contract vehicle
- General pool of Blanket Purchase Agreements of Board-approved entities
- How they'll choose
- Not stated. This notice only gathers information; the FCIC Board decides whether to add sources to the pool.
- Offers due
- September 30, 2027, 6:00 AM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email written responses to Contract Specialist paige.appelt@usda.gov and Contracting Officer kristina.baker@usda.gov
What to include when you submit
- Include the Sources Sought number
- Give company name, address, telephone number, CAGE code (Commercial and Government Entity code), NAICS code and SAM unique entity identifier (UEI)
- Confirm the company is active in SAM (System for Award Management) or is taking steps to become active
- Give a company point of contact with name, email address and telephone number
- State whether the company is large or small and, if small, its socioeconomic category (small business, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone, small disadvantaged or women-owned)
- Include a statement of how you specifically qualify as an actuary, an underwriter or both, listing every item under which you qualify
- Mark proprietary or competition-sensitive information in your response; send written questions to the same two email addresses
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The notice refers to an existing general pool of Blanket Purchase Agreements that sources would be added to.
Not in the notice text
- The notice gives no contract value, order volume, period or BPA terms.
- It does not say how many sources will be added to the pool, how the Board will approve them, or when a request for quotations might follow.
- The size of each review, pricing method and where the work is done are not stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- Fpac Bus CNTR-Acq Div, Washington, DC
- Product/service code
- G008 · Social – Government Insurance Programs: Other
- Business type
- Consulting & professional services (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541690)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 15, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Sep 30, 2027
- Oct 9, 2026 · Sources SoughtDue Sep 30, 2027
- 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: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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