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BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF ILLINOIS - OPPORTUNITY/ADVERTISEMENT

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, (BCBSIL) a Division of Health Care Service Corporation, commitment is to enhance business prospects for all entities by providing equal opportunities for the inclusion of businesses to participate on BCBSIL contracts.

As a part of our Supplier Engagement, we would like to share the following opportunity with your company.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:

The selected vendor will administer a self-insured medical plan(s) service for Enrollees and Dependents in four (4) distinct benefit plans: State Employees Group Insurance Program (SEGIP), Local Government Health Plan (LGHP), Teachers’ Retirement Insurance Program (TRIP): and College Insurance Program (CIP).

OUR POTENTIAL AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY:

Open Enrollment and Benefit Support Meetings Scope:

  • Options for enrollment online and by telephone
  • Production of enrollment fliers
  • One-on-one, onsite enrollment
  • Educational Presentations

These details will be determined at the time of the creation of the project.

Health and Wellness Advocate Scope: This supplier will provide a variety of resources including but not limited to health, counseling, crises, and wellness services. Projects of this nature involve healthy eating, hypertension, diabetes, smoking cessation, etc., education to our members who are employed with the State of Illinois. These requirements may also include traveling to different offices to consult with members about their health and wellness needs as well as assisting with claims related issues. There may be a need to have one to two resources during the commitment and due to the nature and scope of this assignment, there could be large-scale project capacities required. The Health and Wellness service requirements are dependent upon the audience that we are targeting and the needs of the members.

These details will be determined at the time of the creation of the contract in developing the scope of work for services.

SUBCONTRACTING OPPORTUNITY RESPONSE DUE DATE, REQUIREMENTS AND RELATED INFORMATION:

Description(s) of Firms in which BCBSIL is interested:

  • Subcontractors who primarily work with Healthcare Companies.

Required Certification:

  • State of Illinois’ Business Enterprise Program (BEP) Certification

The following NIGP code was used to calculate the State of Illinois’ Business Enterprise Program Goal:

  • 953-48 Insurance and Insurance Services: Health and Hospitalization Insurance

Potential Subcontractor’s Response Due Date:

If you would like for our company to consider your company for the subcontracting opportunities identified above, please send your company’s capability statement to: supplier_engagement@hcsc.net

To be the partner of choice, we engage the talents and services of diverse suppliers and make a meaningful impact in the communities where we live and work.

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