SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Consulting Services for Enhancing the Home Health Agency and Hospice Survey Process
- Notice Date
- 11/13/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-221-7-306601
- Response Due
- 11/28/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/13/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to award, under Simplified Acquisition Procedures, a sole source procurement to Barbara Woodford D/B/A Woodford Consulting, 8883 164th Street, Chippewa Falls, WI 54729. The contractor will provide Home Health Agencies (HHS)/Hospice/ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) Consulting Services under the NAICS code of 541990. The contractor is an expert in the field of home health and hospice and will provide technical consultation, conduct analysis of present policy, assist in the development of new policy, participate in teleconferences with the Program Office and conduct training to state and regional office surveyors. The contractor was a state agency surveyor and state OASIS education coordinator. The contractor is knowledgeable in Medicare Regulations and survey processes for HHA and hospices. She is familiar with the operations and certification responsibilities of state agencies. The contractor has been a faculty member of CMS sponsored training courses and was responsible for teaching several modules of the home health basic training courses over the past several years. The contractor was on the faculty for the CMS hospice train the trainer course. The contractor served as a member of the technical expert panel for Improving Protocols for Home Health Agency Assessment in the Survey Process. The contractor provided assistance to the agency with necessary revisions to our survey process, program manuals, policies, guidelines, training materials and training. One of the contractor?s unique qualifications is extensive experience in survey and certification activities of home health and hospice providers. The contractor is familiar with the conditions of participation for HHAs and hospices, as well as the OASIS collection, encoding and reporting requirements at the state agency. Contractors desiring consideration must provide an equivalent expertise. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Program Office, Center for Medicaid State Operations shall make the determination of what would constitute equivalent expertise.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 7500 Security Blvd, MS: C2-21-15, Baltimore, Maryland
- Zip Code: 21244
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 21244
- Record
- SN01179955-W 20061115/061113220131 (fbodaily.com)
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