Surgery Benefit Services for Health PPO Plan
- Client
- Long Beach, California
- RFP Number
- MEDI-8047
- Posted
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- Category
- Medical Services
- Budget
- Looking for Proposal
- NAICS
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- Set-aside
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- Contact
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Description
AI GeneratedThe buyer located in Long Beach, CA, seeks a vendor to provide a surgical and medical procedure carve-out solution for its Health PPO Plan while maintaining the existing voluntary benefit design with minimal member disruption. The buyer requires pre- and post-care for knee, hip, orthopedic, shoulder, spine, heart, weight loss, and oncology procedures, alongside cancer registry services. The selected vendor must enhance member experience, maximize cost savings, assign unique eligibility identifiers, handle non-binary gender codes, and provide comprehensive member communications. Additionally, the vendor must deliver end-to-end concierge services that cover provider searches, medical data collection, appointment scheduling, travel arrangements, and follow-up care coordination. Eligibility dictates that the bidder must be an onshore USA organization. The buyer requires all work performance to occur offsite. The buyer has not disclosed a specific budget amount and is looking for proposals. Interested bidders must submit all questions no later than September 9, 2026.
Key solicitation details
AI-extracted from RFP Document~19.pdf. Confirm against the original documents before bidding.
The City of Long Beach is seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide eligible surgical and medical procedures through vetted Centers of Excellence for benefited employees, retirees, and their dependents enrolled in the Anthem Blue Cross PPO plan. The elective surgical carve-out solution offers pre- and post-care for knee, hip, orthopedic, shoulder, spine, heart, weight loss, and oncology. Eligible bidders are limited to onshore USA organizations.
- Issued by
- City of Long Beach
- Release Date
- August 26, 2026
- Questions Due to the City
- September 9, 2026
- Responses to Questions Posted
- September 23, 2026
- Proposals Due
- October 7, 2026
- How to submit
- Electronic via LongBeachBuys.com
- Submission details
- Submit proposals electronically through LongBeachBuys.com. Narrative Proposal must be named Attachment 1_Narrative Proposal_Name of Firm.
- Contract term
- Two years with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods, not to exceed five years in total.
- Place of performance
- Offsite
- Insurance and bonding
- Commercial general liability, Workers' compensation with minimum limits of $1,000,000, Employer's liability, Automobile liability, and Professional liability or errors and omissions insurance. Faithful Performance Bond and Labor and Materials Bond required upon award.
- Funding
- California Labor Code Section 1770 et seq.
How proposals are evaluated
| Organizational Capacity & Experience | |
| Reasonableness of Cost | 10% |
Scope of work
- Provide access to a broad network of vetted Centers of Excellence for surgical and medical procedures
- Offer pre- and post-care for knee, hip, orthopedic, shoulder, spine, heart, weight loss, and oncology
- Provide end-to-end concierge services including provider locating, data collection, scheduling, travel arrangements, and follow-up coordination
- Maintain existing voluntary surgical carve-out benefit plan design with minimal member disruption
- Integrate data sharing and communications with Anthem Blue Cross and CVS Caremark
- Process, load, and manage eligibility information using unique identifiers and non-binary gender codes
- Provide member customer service phone support, open enrollment attendance, direct mailings, secure online platform, and mobile app
- Deliver standard management, utilization, and call center metrics reporting
Minimum qualifications
- Must have a business license upon award and be qualified to conduct business in Long Beach
- Must possess all trade, professional, or business licenses required by law
- At least three (3) years of consecutive, verifiable experience managing specialized surgical carve-out programs
- Must have HIPAA-compliant practices regarding handling and transmission of protected health information
- Attest that key personnel will be available for the duration of the engagement
- Ability to provide most recent Audited Financial Statement or Corporate Annual Report
- Onshore (USA Organization Only)
Documents to include with the bid
- Attachment 1: Narrative Proposal
- Cost Proposal
- Financial Statements or Corporate Annual Report
- Attachment A: Authorization & Certification
- Attachment B: Equal Benefits Ordinance (EBO) Form
- Business License (upon award)
- Certificates of Insurance (upon award)
- Faithful Performance Bond (upon award)
- Labor and Materials Bond (upon award)
- Current Contractor's State License Board print out (upon award)
Verify important details
Document checkConfirm submission instructions and amendments with the issuing agency before responding.
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