The City of Clifton is soliciting proposals from licensed insurance brokers in New Jersey to act as broker of record for self-insured employee health, prescription, and dental benefits for a one-year contract period. Proposals must be submitted by October 1, 2026, at 11:00 am. Brokers must have five years of experience as a broker of record for a public agency and be actively licensed in New Jersey for a minimum of five years. The selection will be based on the most advantageous proposal considering qualifications, experience, ability to perform timely, cost competitiveness, and other factors.
Proposals shall be received no later than 11:00 am on October 1, 2026.
The selection criteria used in the awarding contract shall include: qualifications of the individuals who will perform the tasks and the degree of their respective participation, experience and references, ability to perform the task in a timely fashion, cost competitiveness, minimum of 5 years of successful experience in providing similar services to municipalities the size of the city of clifton, senior staff members must be available for emergencies after regular business hours, and other factors the mayor council deem to be in the best interest of the city of clifton and its taxpayers.
Proposer must have five years experience as a broker of record for a public agency and be actively licensed as a new jersey insurance broker for a minimum of five years.
A contractor, subcontractor or supplier who fails to provide proof of business registration or provides false business registration information shall be liable to a penalty of 25 for each day of violation, not to exceed 50,000 for each business registration not properly provided or maintained under a contract with a contracting agency.
All questions relating to the rfp shall be submitted in writing to city of clifton purchasing agent, amisha jariwala, via email to: ***@***. *. *, no later than 3:00 pm on September 22, 2026.
Failure to submit the required information in the ownership disclosure statement is cause for automatic rejection of the bid or proposal.