The Vendor is required to provide county college with flexible spending accounts (FSA) and commuter benefits administration, COBRA and direct billing services in accordance.
- COBRA and Direct Billing Services
- Administrative services will include all standard services, including but not limited to:
• Initial (new hire) notices
• Qualifying event notices and benefit elections
• Open Enrollment for COBRA participants
• Billing and collection of COBRA premiums and other self-pay premiums
• Termination letters due to non-payment
• Premium rate change notices
• Provide access to a secure web portal for account status review, and other information
• ACA reporting
• Administrator will accept interface file from the College
• Accept electronic transfer of information from the College’s incumbent vendor, as part of the transition process, including information for participants in waiting status
• Send COBRA election information to the College’s medical, dental and vision administrators
• Monthly reporting
- Direct Billing Premiums: For the direct billing, employees on leave without pay would pay 100% of the premium, employer and employee costs but no additional 2% surcharge.
- Solution must support federated single sign-on (SSO) using SAML 2.0 or Active Directory Federation Services 4.0 and higher to allow College users to leverage county College credentials and enforce its authentication policies, including multi-factor authentication.
- Solution must provide role-based access control to ensure that only authorized individuals are granted access to the offered solution with permissions granted appropriate to their role.
- Solution must employ TLS 1.2 or greater for all College data in-transit including any website or application portal.
- Solution must encrypt College data stored and maintained using at least the industry standard encryption algorithm AES-128 or greater.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: April 21, 2025