CT Paid Leave board authorizes staff to negotiate and execute claims-administration contract after closed session

The Connecticut Paid Leave Authority Board of Directors on March 13, 2025, voted to authorize authority staff to negotiate and execute a contract with the vendor the board selected in its recently completed request-for-proposals process. The board entered an executive session earlier in the meeting to review confidential responses to the claims-administration RFP and returned to the public meeting to approve staff authority to finalize a contract.

Board Chair Fran called for the motion after the board returned from executive session; a board member seconded the motion and the board voted "aye." No members recorded opposition or abstentions when the motion carried. The board's action authorizes staff to complete negotiations and execute the agreement with the vendor identified in the executive-session review.

The vote followed a multi-month procurement process in which the authority issued an RFP for claims administration and received multiple qualified proposals. Authority staff had briefed the board on the RFP responses in executive session because, as the board explained before entering that session, public disclosure of detailed vendor proposals could harm the vendors' competitive interests.

The board did not vote on contract terms during the public meeting; instead the motion grants staff authority to negotiate and sign the final contract consistent with the board's procurement rules and the evaluation that took place in executive session. No further public details about the identified vendor or the contract terms were disclosed during the meeting.

The authorization is the next step in the authority's multi-year claims-administration strategy, which the board has previously said favors using a third-party administrator (TPA) rather than building claims processing fully in house.