The New York State Department of Civil Service (Department or DCS) has issued this Request for Proposal (RFP) to secure the services of a qualified organization (Offeror) to administer the Dispute Resolution Program (DRP). The DRP is a process agreed to by New York State and several labor unions representing certain State Employees to obtain an independent third-party review of the Treating Physicians’ and Evaluating Physicians’ conflicting medical determinations regarding an injured and/or ill employee’s degree of disability.

This RFP defines minimum contract requirements, details response requirements, and outlines the Department’s process for evaluating responses and selecting an Offeror. Project Services are set forth in detail in Section 3 of this RFP. Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings specified in the Glossary of Defined Terms (Attachment 14) or the body of this RFP.

The Department will only contract with a single Offeror, which will be the sole contact regarding all provisions of the Contract.

This RFP and other relevant information may be reviewed at: https://www.cs.ny.gov/DRPRFP/ .