Presolicitation
U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau - Group Life Insurance Services to Local Engaged Staffs
Department of State
AI summaryThis is a presolicitation from the U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau for group life insurance for its local employees, in Central, Hong Kong. The notice says the solicitation is not ready to be issued and gives no response due date. Planned: a firm-fixed-price (one set price) contract with a 12-month base period and a one-year option. More in the summary
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This is a presolicitation from the U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau for group life insurance for its local employees, in Central, Hong Kong. The notice says the solicitation is not ready to be issued and gives no response due date. Planned: a firm-fixed-price (one set price) contract with a 12-month base period and a one-year option.
Who can bid
- Active System for Award Management (SAM) registration before submitting an offer
How to submit: Email to hkprocurementbids@state.gov, or mail to the contracting office listed in the notice. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 20, 2026.
- Worth checking: Work is in Hong Kong. The place of performance is outside the United States; the notice does not say whether a local office, license, currency or other host-country rules apply, so ask before bidding.
- Worth checking: Foreign procurement tax clause applies. The clause on tax for certain foreign procurements applies; read it to see how taxes affect your price.
- Minor: Pre-proposal conference planned. The notice gives no conference date and does not say whether attending is required; the date will be in the solicitation.
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- Minor: Email file limits. Offers are limited to 10MB per transmission and cannot include zip, exe or dat files.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Provide group life insurance coverage for the consulate's local engaged employees
- Base period of twelve months, with one year at the Government's option
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing)
- Period of performance
- Base period of twelve months and one option year
- Place of performance
- Central, Hong Kong (outside the United States)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How to submit
- Email to hkprocurementbids@state.gov, or mail to the contracting office listed in the notice
What to include when you submit
- Send no zip, exe or dat files
- Keep each email transmission to 10MB or less
- Register in the System for Award Management (SAM) before submitting an offer; early registration is encouraged
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, its response due date and the pre-proposal conference date are not posted yet
- Whether a local Hong Kong office, insurance license or registration is required
- Currency of offers, exchange rates and how host-country taxes affect prices, beyond the tax clause named
- Evaluation factors and the number of covered employees
- NAICS code (not given) and any set-aside; SAM.gov states none
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 to hkprocurementbids@state.gov, or mail to the contracting office listed in the notice. 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 20, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- American Embassy Hong Kong
- Product/service code
- G006 · Social – Government Life Insurance Programs
- 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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