Provision of Reinsurance Services for the NSW Self Insurance Corporation - 0801676

This Request for Tender seeks submissions from organisations interested in providing reinsurance services to the NSW Self Insurance Corporation (SICorp).  SICorp requires a provider of reinsurance services to develop and place SICorp’s reinsurance program and to provide related reinsurance services and advice.  

SICorp is the principal to the agreement and is a statutory body which has the following functions with respect to Government managed fund schemes: 

a)             To operate one or more Government managed fund schemes (including the function of establishing, reorganising, amalgamating, dividing or winding up such schemes),

b)            to enter into agreements or arrangements with other persons to provide services (as agents or otherwise) in relation to the operation of any Government managed fund scheme,

c)             to enter into insurance or other agreements or arrangements to cover the liabilities to which a Government managed fund scheme applies,

d)            to act for the State or an authority of the State in dealing with claims under a Government managed fund scheme (including the recovery of amounts payable to the State or an authority of the State in connection with such claims).

NSW Regions: Central West, Far West, Hunter, Illawarra, Mid North Coast, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Northern, North Western, Richmond Tweed, South Eastern, Sydney

Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.

Z-RFT_0801676.pdf ( 1.71 MB)

Briefing Session
A Tender Briefing session will be held to provide prospective tenderers with an opportunity to discuss all aspects of this tender.

The Briefing will be held at: 
Conference Room 2
Level 4, McKell Building|
2 – 24 Rawson Place
SYDNEY  NSW  

The Briefing will be held on:
Date: Wednesday 1 April
Time: 10:00am

It is highly desirable that all prospective tenderers attend the briefing in order that they fully acquaint themselves with the tender requirements. It is expected that all tenderers have thoroughly read the document prior to the briefing.  

Prospective attendees should register beforehand, by email, with the Contact Officer

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Documents available for this RFT (issued on 23/03/2009):

Only a SOFTCOPY is available. A CD is not available.

OBTAINING DOCUMENTS: 

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LODGE A RESPONSE:
Your completed response should be lodged as required by the RFT documents.

It may usually be lodged electronically via this web page.

During the lodgement process all responses are encrypted for security.
All responses that are received can only be accessed and decrypted after the tender has officially closed.

A detailed system generated electronic receipt is issued for each response received successfully.

PC Software Requirements:
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·  Adobe  Acrobat Reader  5.0 (or more recent).  Free trial version available from Adobe web site.

·  WinZip 7.0 (or more recent) or equivalent.  Please click here http://www.winzip.com/ WinZip to be taken to a free evaluation download site now.

Additional software which may also be required, including the following, depending on the file types provided:

·  Microsoft  Word 2003
·  Microsoft  Excel 2003

Other requirements:
·  An Internet connection to lodge completed responses.

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