SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Data Collection and Data Management of the 2006 Medicare Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers Survey (CAHPS)
- Notice Date
- 3/22/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
- ZIP Code
- 21244-1850
- Solicitation Number
- RFP-CMS-2006-0009
- Point of Contact
- Heather Robertson, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-6888, Fax 410-786-9088, - Juanita Wilson, Contracting Officer, Phone 410-786-5538, Fax 410-786-9088,
- E-Mail Address
-
heather.robertson@cms.hhs.gov, juanita.wilson@cms.hhs.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to award a contract to a Small Business to conduct all data collection and raw data file preparation for the 2006 Medicare Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers Survey (CAHPS). This includes data collection and data management of the Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Fee-For-Service (MFFS), Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (MA-PDP), and Medicare Stand Alone PDP (PDP) CAHPS surveys. The 2006 Medicare CAHPS is a large scale national data collection program using complex sample designs of as many as 600,000 total sample members. The 2006 Medicare CAHPS survey will be implemented using a protocol used in earlier Medicare CAHPS surveys, including mailing of pre-notification letters, up to 2 mailings of survey questionnaires, and sufficient telephone follow-up to assure at least a 70% response rate in all health and PDP plan types. Tasks under this contract shall be performed under aggressive time constraints and shall be conducted in English and Spanish languages. They include, but are not limited to: (1) Formatting, printing and reproduction of sufficient numbers of all sets of survey questionnaires; (2) Development of a Computer Assisted Telephone Instrument (CATI) version of each of the Medicare health plan type questionnaires to enable collection of the survey by telephone both for sample members to call into the toll-free contractor-provided telephone number dedicated to the survey as well as for calls made by the contractor in telephone follow-up to non-respondents to the mail survey; (3) Preparation of a CATI training manual for telephone interviewers as well as the training of sufficient numbers of interviewers to conduct the CATI surveys; (4) Inputting data from the completed returned mail survey questionnaires through the use of an optical scanning machine that reads each page of the completed surveys and captures responses; (5) Preparation of electronic data files to be prepared from the results of the Medicare CAHPS data collection efforts according to specifications provided to the contractor by CMS and the CMS CAHPS Analytic contractor. This procurement will be set aside for Small Businesses. It is anticipated that this competition will result in one award. The period of performance will be a base year plus four (4) one-year options. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code that will apply to this procurement is: NAICS Codes Description Size Standard 518210 Data Processing, Hosting, $23 million and Related Services A formal solicitation package will be available on or about April 28, 2006. Questions related to this synopsis should be referred to Mrs. Heather Robertson on (410) 786-6888 or heather.robertson@cms.hhs.gov. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (22-MAR-2006). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 02-MAY-2006, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/HCFA/AGG/RFP-CMS-2006-0009/listing.html)
- Record
- SN01039625-F 20060504/060502222305 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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