EMPLOYEE BENEFITS CONSULTING SERVICES FOR A THREE-YEAR PERIOD

Location:	Illinois
Posted:	Feb 20, 2026
Due:	Feb 27, 2026
Agency:	METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	Q - Medical Services R - Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services
Solicitation No:	26-RFP-06
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS CONSULTING SERVICES

CONTRACT 26-RFP-06

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“District”) requests proposals from any

prospective Proposer for the above captioned subject which is described in document 26-RFP-06.

PROPOSALS ARE DUE: February 27, 2026

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted to the District via an electronic upload to the Euna Portal

only. See “Submission Via the Euna Portal” for instructions. Proposals will be accepted from the date of the

Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. Central Time (CT) on the date stated above.

No bids will be accepted after 11:00 A.M. (CT) on the above scheduled due date. Faxed, mailed, emailed,

or hand-delivered proposals will not be accepted. There is no Bid Depository safe for this purpose.

The District is seeking a vendor to provide employee benefits consulting services. A complete description of the

required services is provided in the proposal document, Section II, Scope of Work. The contract for these services

will be for the period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029.

The Cost Estimate for this Contract is $194,500.00. Funding of all contract items is subject to the Board of

Commissioners’ approval of the budget for those years.

The Affirmative Action Goals for this Request for Proposal are 5% Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and/or

Women Business Enterprises (WBE).

Copies of the Request for Proposal are only available online from the District’s website at www.mwrd.org

→DOING BUSINESS → PROCUREMENT & MATERIALS MANAGEMENT → CONTRACT

ANNOUNCEMENTS) → [locate the Contract] → BIDDING DOCUMENTS. No fee is required for the Request

for Proposal documents. Any questions regarding the downloading of Request for Proposal documents should be

directed to contractdesk@mwrd.org or call (312) 751-6643.

Further, the District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Proposer to successfully

download any and all contract documents, including but not limited to specifications, proposal forms and/or plans,

as a result of any type of technological computer and/or software system failure or breakdown that restricts,

prohibits or prevents successful downloading of any and all District contract documents by the Proposer, whether

caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly.

If any potential Proposer contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the

specifications or other contract documents, such inquiry should be submitted online at the District’s website,

www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing Business→Procurement and Materials Management→Contract

Announcements. The District will provide an online response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate.

Strings of appropriate questions and answers regarding the bidding documents will be available online on the

District’s website until the bid opening date of the documents. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax,

email, mail, or any other such form of delivery.

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The District will only respond to questions received online up to ONE WEEK prior to the date set to receive

proposals. The District will not respond to questions received after this date. The District does not guarantee the

timeliness of responses provided online, nor does the District guarantee that such responses will be provided in

adequate time to affect the submission of bids. The District shall provide responses online ONLY if the responses

do not interpret or otherwise change the bidding documents.

The District’s responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding to the bidding

documents. Any official interpretation or change to the bidding documents will be made only by addenda duly

issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management.

Proposers are to include with their proposal signed copies of any addenda, or acknowledge receipt of any addenda,

if the District issued any addenda to this contract. Failure to do so may be cause for the rejection of any bid.

Bidding documents are available only online, and any addenda issued for this contract will be available online at

the District’s website, www.mwrd.org (Doing Business → Procurement and Materials Management → Contract

Announcements). Addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person receiving a set of such contract documents

and to such other prospective Proposers as shall have requested that they be furnished with a copy of the addenda.

The contact person for the request for proposal is James E. Fisher, Assistant Director of Human Resources. This

contact person will provide online responses to online inquiries.

The District reserves the right to accept any Request for Proposal or any part thereof or to reject any and all

Request for Proposals.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement & Materials Management

DATE OF ADVERTISEMENT: Wednesday, February 4, 2026

This is the opportunity summary page. It provides an overview of this opportunity and a preview of the attached documentation.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS CONSULTING SERVICES FOR A THREE-YEAR PERIOD

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