Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1.Currently, there are two units in Income Support within the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT) interested in the continued Electronic Payment Card (EPC) method of payment: Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) Programs.2.The State is interested in securing a partner who is willing to extend its services to other programs and/or state agencies, which may require a contract with the state agency or future amendment to the DLT contract. Each subsequent program and/or State agency will have specific technical and programmatic requirements, including Agency State and Federal requirements to be documented within the associated amendment and/or contract. Specifically, but not exclusively, the Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) will need the vendor to also assume the administering of the OCSS KIDSCARD. Since OCSS intends to eventually embark on its own RFP in conjunction with its State Disbursement Unit (SDU) RFP, OCSS expects to engage in a 12-month contract period (See Appendix C). 3.One of the objectives of DLT Request for Proposal (RFP) is to minimize EPC fees to customers utilizing EPC as their payment option and to create on-going efficiencies to this payment method. DLT is also interested in increasing the flexibility of recipients accessing benefit payments thru financial institutions and ATM access in Rhode Island.4.The vendor shall provide a description of their file communication format and include at a minimum a sample of their file format for customer enrollments, EPC card mailings and benefit payments using the same batch processing system that is utilized for daily requests; full unintended electronic continuous transmissions. It is imperative for claimant enrollments to occur daily to allow the department to meet payment schedules according to federal and state guidelines.
