FRTIB Procurement Information

Contracting Opportunities:

• Solicitation TIB-2008-R-002, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Agency) seeks a contractor to assist Agency staff in conducting (development, delivery, and analysis of) a survey of Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) participants.  The intent of this survey is to build upon the baseline participant survey dated November 2007, in an effort to increase our understanding of participants' retirement planning behavior and satisfaction with TSP services.  NOTE:  This solicitation is a large PDF file: 185 pages, file size = 2.8 MB; therefore, please allow extra time for your browser to download and open it in your PDF viewer.

  • Responses to Offeror Questions (July 14, 2008) for Solicitation - TIB-2008-R-002

Past Contracting Opportunities:

• Request for Information, TIB-2007-I-001, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board seeks information from prospective vendors concerning their ability to provide it with certain administrative and office support services.  Responses to this RFI are due by December 1, 2006.  

• Solicitation TIB-2006-R-003, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board seeks the services of a provider capable of the following services and support:  Receive and invest monies in the Contractor's daily-valued, commingled:  S&P 500 Index fund; Dow Jones Wilshire 4500 Completion Index fund; MSCI EAFE Index fund; and/or Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index fund. Prospective offerors may offer one, all or any combination of funds. NOTE:  This solicitation is a large PDF file: 62 pages, file size = 2.4  MB; therefore, please allow extra time for your browser to download and open it in your PDF viewer.
  
  
  • AMENDMENT 1 TO SOLICITATION TIB-2006-R-003, THIS AMENDMENT REMOVES THE PAGE LIMITATION FROM THE TECHNICAL PROPOSAL.  THERE IS NO LIMITATION ON THE NUMBER OF PAGES IN THE TECHNICAL PROPOSAL.
    
    
  • Responses to Offeror Questions (May 26, 2006) for Soliciation - TIB-2006-R-003
    
    
• Solicitation - TIB-2006-R-002, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Agency) seeks the services of a provider capable of the following services and support: receiving, opening, date-stamping, sorting and forwarding incoming mail and facsimile documents; scanning incoming documents, indexing and data entry; reviewing and determining appropriate action for selected benefit requests; reviewing and mailing selected notices generated by the workflow system or through manual input; and maintaining electronic archives of all scanned documents.   NOTE:  This solicitation is a large PDF file: 40 pages, file size = 2.4  MB; therefore, please allow extra time for your browser to download and open it in your PDF viewer.
  
  
  • Response to Offeror Questions (March 10, 2006) for Solicitation - TIB-2006-R-002, 23 pages;  Volume Charts, 6 pages;  TSP Processing Priorities Matrix, 8 March 2006, 6 pages;  Sample TSP Data Entry Procedures, 35 pages;  Participant Account Action Request Sample Screen, 1 page.
    
    
• Solicitation - TIB-2006-R-001, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board seeks the services of a commercial provider capable of printing and mailing Agency documents, education and marketing materials (high-quality financial statement processing, variably imaged marketing programs and books, enrollment documents, short-run print, tax forms, PIN mailers, newsletters, etc.) to participants, beneficiaries and third parties using all United States Postal Service (USPS) processes that guarantee lowest bulk mailing discounts.   NOTE:  This solicitation is a large PDF file: 35 pages, file size = 1.8  MB; therefore, please allow extra time for your browser to download and open it in your PDF viewer.
  
  
  • Response to Offeror Questions (November 22, 2005) for Solicitation - TIB-2006-R-001

Notices of Recent Contract Award:

• On September 5, 2006, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board awarded solicitation - TIB-2006-R-003 to Barclay Global Investors of San Francisco, CA to manage the C, S, I and F Funds.  For more information, see the press release.
  
  
• On March 24, 2006, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board awarded solicitation - TIB-2006-R-001 to R.R. Donnelley of Chicago, Illinois to provide bulk mailing services.  For more information, see the press release.
  
  
• On January 17, 2006, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board selected Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) as the provider of the annuity program (solicitation - TIB-2005-R-006) of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for Federal employees.  For more information, see the press release.
   

Past Procurements:

• On September 12, 2005, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board awarded solicitation TIB-2005-R-003 to Ennis Knupp + Associates of Chicago, Illinois, to provide ongoing expert consulting to the Agency for its investment program and procurement of investment services.  For more information, see the press release.
   
• On June 20, 2005, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board awarded solicitation TIB-2005-R-002 to SI International of Reston, Virginia, to provide a new parallel call center and support services to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for Federal employees.  For more information, see the press release.
  
  
  
  

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To contact the procurement staff for information:

Robert Battersby, Contracting Officer
Voice:		(202) 942-1693
Email:		Robert.Battersby@tsp.gov
Fax:		(202) 942-1674

Address:

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board 1250 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20005-3952