this rfq will allow to have a prequalified list of vendors that we can then contract for and without having to go through a full rfp process. the communication, the vendors would be for health benefits and wellness communication consulting services. these are large rubrics of services. it's communication strategies, design, eligibility, website engineering, wellness tuesday and digital support services. so we cannot come forward right now and give you a list of vendors that we ask to not talk to you. we try to get as much as possible prequalified list of vendors and we continue to work on the website or work on the communication strategy for the wellness well being strategy. so, in looking at the advice that we would like to get in terms of the blackout period, we went back to the governance policy and when there is a provision that is not possible when a time of providers for which the blackout period provides it's a good faith effort to comply with the blackout provisions by taking all reasonable to determine if providers communicate with our potential candidates in an hhs search p

what we are hoping as much possible is to be able to send out these types of documents, rfp's, rfq, to as many people as possible to qualify so that we have a rich group of members to be able to choose from. so, and that's basically the foundation of san francisco government is to provide everybody as much as possible, the ability to at least try to get a city contract. i'm sorry i can't give you a list of the vendors, just ask that you observe this blackout period by if someone would come talk to you about services or ask questions to refer them to the department. >> i completely understand the issues of what i do. i cannot agree to say that i will not discuss anything about communications with any firm. it's just too broad. so which is what it looks like you are asking for. one of the things that might help is i don't know how long the blackout period is. >> let me ask the question -- >> i understand in theory i would have to disclose before i have these communications. that's what the paragraph says. >> while i haven't been around for the way the policy was developed, i think the in

this rfq process will allow us to bring web designers and other folks to use technology and learn how to make those choices and i want to mention the retirement survey. we are timing it so we are fully moved and ready to take those phone calls. it's scheduled to go out at the end of this week or early next week. finance has been working on making sure the contract is one of the last ones to complete and we are doing the fsa and cobra rfp which is released on monday. that will be three rfp's on monday and the controllers report that will provide some information for the data basis going and we are working on the data for union negotiations. a lot of request on that and there is city's report is being updated and we providing a lot of report and data for that calculation. i think we've talked about the wellness efforts and it's launched. they are doing big conferences down there in the big conference we have and starting to do other trainings and in terms of meetings, we wanted to just highlight that. we are working with the city's cat program so the catastrophic illness program and lon