Specifications include, but are not limited to: The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to locate and contract with a firm or firms that have demonstrated experience with, and success in, providing passive indexed investment management services for U.S. Intermediate Treasury Fixed Income. The selected firm(s) will be expected to provide passive index investment management service to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) for passive index investment mandate for the aforementioned asset class. BWC seeks proposals from managers experienced in passive index investment management with the objectives of replicating index returns while minimizing tracking error at a competitive cost level. BWC expects to select firm(s) that it believes will be best able to manage the investments to the named index. BWC will select the applicant(s) that it deems will accomplish the mission of identifying and hiring Investment Manager(s) that will provide a return closest to the index return at low cost and minimum risk level expectations set by BWC.