Department of State, Office of Acquisition, P. O. Box 9115, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, VA 22219-0244

B -- FOREIGN SERVICES NATIONALS RETIREMENT FUND SOL S-LMAQM-00-R-0006 DUE 111999 POC John Mason, 703 875-6624 E-MAIL: John Mason, MASONJJ@STATE.GOV. This is a Request for Information (RFI). Response is due no later than 19 November 1999. The United States Department of State, Office of Overseas Employment, wishes to establish a funding vehicle to be used to accumulate assets for retirement benefits for federal employees who are hired and working outside the United States and who are not U. S. citizens and possibly a small number who are U. S. citizens. There will be between 10, 000 and 30,000 individual accounts involved with a net cash inflow of three to six million dollars per year. For tax reasons legal ownership of the fund will rest with the Department. The Department has designed the fund and is seeking additional ideas and suggestions from professional fund managers before finalizing its Request for Proposals. Interested managers are invited to submit ideas setting out their suggested approach in managing the assets and administering the individual accounts in the most cost effective manner. Your response should cover the following areas: (a) your willingness and ability to manage the assets of the fund along with any reservations or provisos you may have, (b) identification of the fund and asset classes that would be available or recommended, (c) your willingness and ability to administer the fund in individual accounts set up to reflect the Department's own responsibility to affected employees as described in the Service Benefit Program, (d) the ability of your systems and processes to deal with the necessary reporting requirements, (e) relevant fee structures for asset and indivisual account management, and (f) any other information that would be useful to the Department in this matter. Additional information including a more detailed description of the program is available upon request. Posted 10/26/99 (W-SN395211). (0299)

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