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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 05, 2012 FBO #3815
SOURCES SOUGHT

R -- Healthcare Oracle Hosting & Operation Contractor

Notice Date

5/3/2012
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

541519 — Other Computer Related 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, Maryland, 21244-1850
 

ZIP Code

21244-1850
 

Solicitation Number

SS-CMS-2012-HLH128a88
 

Archive Date

6/19/2012
 

Point of Contact

Herman L. Harris, Phone: 410-786-9104, Tonya D. Anderson, Phone: 410-786-4087
 

E-Mail Address

Herman.Harris@cms.hhs.gov, Tonya.Anderson@cms.hhs.gov
(Herman.Harris@cms.hhs.gov, Tonya.Anderson@cms.hhs.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION FOR BID, REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP), OR OTHER SOLICITATION, AND IN NO WAY OBLIGATES CMS TO AWARD A CONTRACT. THE SOLE INTENT OF THIS SSN IS TO OBTAIN CAPABILITY STATEMENTS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE IF 8(A) SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PERFORM AS A HEALTHCARE ORACLE HOSTING & OPERATION CONTRACTOR (HOHOC), CURRENTLY SIMILAR WORK IS BEING DONE FOR CMS BY AN 8(A) SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES CONTRACTOR. CMS NEEDS TO IDENTIFY IF THERE ARE SUFFICIENT 8(A) SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES TO RECOMPETE THIS EFFORT AS AN 8(A) SMALL DISADVANTAGE BUSINESS SET-ASIDE AND THAT ENTITIES ARE CAPABLE OF COMPLETING THE STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW). THIS WILL FACILITATE DETERMINATION OF THE APPROPRIATE ACQUISITION STRATEGY FOR PROCURING THESE SERVICES. Background The work solicited includes the infrastructure support for the HCQIS environments which uses shared database servers and Wide Area Network (WAN) resources to monitor and improve utilization and quality of care for Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries. QualityNet resources are geographically dispersed; Complex 1 located at the CMS Central Office Data Center in Baltimore, MD and Complex 2 which is located at the HCQIS Infrastructure Contractor; a national network of 57 Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) sites responsible for each US state, territory, and the District of Columbia; one Clinical Data Abstraction Center (CDAC) located in York, PA; 18 End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) networks; and the QualityNet Development and Project Management Contractors support locations. Each of these organizations maintain a staff of highly qualified, multidisciplinary experts in medicine, quality improvement, health information management, health informatics, Information Technology (IT) systems security, statistical analysis, computer programming and operations, communications, public relations, and clerical support. Their mission is to ensure the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, security, and economy of health care services provided to Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries. CMS organizational business processes that are supported by QualityNet include: • The capability for collection and management of clinical, survey, and project data from Medicare and Medicaid providers; • The management and analysis of that clinical, survey, and project data by the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO); • The collection of data by ESRD Network Organizations to administer the national Medicare ESRD Program; and • The management and provision of Medicare and Medicaid information to providers that include but are not limited to hospitals, physician or family practice clinics, dialysis clinics, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Nursing Homes, and various specialized clinics. The HealthCare Quality Information System (HCQIS) is a major application environment that uses application groups, shared servers, and WAN to monitor and improve utilization and quality of care for Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries. HCQIS is composed of 5 application groups: • Standard Data Processing System (SDPS) for Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), including the Clinical Data Abstraction Center (CDAC); • Value Based Purchasing (VBP) IT Infrastructure for Physician Quality Reporting System ( PQRS) and Hospital Outpatient; • Consolidated Renal Operations in a Web-Enabled Network (CROWNWeb); • Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) for states and CMS; and • Quality Improvement Initiatives (QII). The intent is to identify potential sources that are capable of performing the support for the technical infrastructure components of the QualityNet environment. These infrastructure support services are wide-ranging, covering areas such as: • Hosting a data center • Network management • Network management • UNIX and Microsoft servers management • Configuration management • Validation Testing • Stress Testing • Project Management • Security • Help Desk • Production Support • QIO System Administration • ESRD System Administration • File and Print Services • E-mail services • Desktop support • Remote Access History: The Standard Data Processing System (SDPS), implemented in 1997, supports the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) community. Prior to SDPS, each QIO was responsible for developing solutions to meet the management and reporting requirements of the Statement of Work (SoW). Besides the obvious inefficiencies of redundant systems and costs, each QIO had different competencies during that period. Since the inception of SDPS, the functions of SDPS have encompassed support, standardization and development of data, software and standards for the QIO community. SDPS continues to rapidly evolve with innovative technology to meet the challenges of supporting and interfacing directly with the QIO community and surrounding healthcare industry. Under Part B of Title XI of the Social Security Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act), as amended by the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) were created. Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOS) are under contract by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to: • Improve quality of care for Beneficiaries; • Protect the integrity of the Medicare Trust Fund by ensuring that Medicare pays only for services and goods that are reasonable and medically necessary and that are provided in the most appropriate setting; and • Protect Beneficiaries by expeditiously addressing individual complaints, notices, and appeals, such as Beneficiary complaints; provider-issued notices of non-coverage (Hospital-Issued Notice of Non-Coverage [HINN], Notice of Discharge and Medicare Appeal Rights [NODMAR], and Medicare Advantage appeal); Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) violations; and other related statutory QIO responsibilities. The statutory authority for the QIO Scope of Work is found in Part B of Title XI of the Social Security Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act), as amended by the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982. The Act established the Utilization and Quality Control Peer Review Organization Program, now known as the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program. The statutory mission of the QIO Program, as set forth in Section 1862(g) of the Act, is to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and quality of services delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries. In support of the QIO Program, CMS authorized the design and implementation of a SDPS for the User Community. SDPS is an information system solution that provides a common platform for users to share applications and data to promote efficiency and increase productivity. SDPS is the QIO Information Technology and data support infrastructure. The work under this contract is being performed under 1154c of Title XI of the Social Security Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act), as amended by the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 and is aligned with the work and mission under Sections 3001 - 3004 and Section 10322 of Health Care Reform H.R. 3950, TITLE III-IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF HEALTH CARE, Subtitle A-Transforming the Health Care Delivery System, Part I. Health Care Reform H.R. 3950, TITLE III-IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF HEALTH CARE, Subtitle A-Transforming the Health Care Delivery System, Part I - Linking Payment to Quality Outcomes under the Medicare Program requires the Secretary to improve quality and efficiency of Hospital services delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries. The QIO work established and set forth in Part B of Title XI of the Social Security Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act), as amended by the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982; aligns to the same established mission and mandates in Health Care Reform H.R. 3950, TITLE III-IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF HEALTH CARE, Subtitle A-Transforming the Health Care Delivery System. The SDPS User Community, for purposes of this contract, refers to the QIOs, the State Agencies, CMS Central and Regional Offices, the Clinical Data Abstraction Center (CDAC), and other organizations/partners that may be incorporated in support of CMS initiatives. This system services the daily, ongoing support that the SDPS User Community needs to fulfill their contractual requirements in a manner supportive of an ongoing quality improvement Program. The VBP Application group utilizes SDPS applications and warehouses in addition to other VBP specific products. These applications and warehouse support two provisions of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (TRHCA) Division B, Title 1: A. Section 101, Physician Payment and Quality Improvement, includes the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). This law authorizes a financial incentive for eligible professionals to participate in a Voluntary Quality Reporting Program. Eligible professionals, who chose to participate and successfully report on a designated set of quality measures for services paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and provided between July 1 and December 31, 2007 to Medicare Beneficiaries under the Traditional Fee-for-Service Program, may earn a bonus payment of 1.5% of their charges during that period, subject to a cap. On December 29, 2007, the President signed Public Law 110-173, the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA), which authorized the continuation of the Physician Quality Reporting System ( PQRS) for 2008. The 2008 PQRS reporting period is January 1-December 31, 2008. The Extension Act also provides new authorities for enhancing PQRS that CMS will be implementing during 2008. MMSEA requires CMS to establish alternative reporting periods and alternative criteria for satisfactorily reporting groups of measures via claims for 2008. It also requires CMS to establish alternative reporting periods and alternative criteria for satisfactorily reporting measures via registries to enable professionals to earn the 1.5% incentive for participation in PQRS based on data submitted via these mechanisms. B. Section 109, requires the development of measures for the evaluation of the quality of care of services provided by hospitals in outpatient settings. An Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update (RHQDAPU) Program modeled after the current Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) RHQDAPU Program will be established. Section 109, which applies to hospitals as defined under section 1886(d)(1(B) of the Act, also requires that Hospital Outpatient Departments (HOPD) that fail to report data required for the quality measures selected by the Secretary will incur a reduction in their annual OPD fee schedule increase factor by 2.0 percentage points. OPPS payments beginning in CY 2009 will be based on hospital reporting of OPD data beginning in CY 2008. The statutory authority for maintenance of the ESRD System is given under sections 226A, 1875, and 1881 of the Social Security Act. The ESRD Program was established in 1972 pursuant to the provisions of 299I, Public Law 92-602, Section 226A of the Social Security Act - Special Provisions Relating to Coverage under Medicare Program for ESRD. Section 299I, Public Law 92-603 established the ESRD Networks. One of the ESRD Networks functions is to support the renal registry (1881(c) (2) The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-509) (Section 1881(d)(7) required that the Secretary establish a national ESRD registry. This registry is called the United States Renal Data System (USRDS). The contract to administer the USRDS is awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The registry is currently run through a contract with the University of Minnesota. This registry utilizes data reported by network organizations, transplant centers, and other sources to support the analysis of alternative treatment modes, the evaluation of allocation of resources, the analysis of morbidity and mortality trends and other quality of care indices, and other studies that assist the Congress in evaluating the ESRD Program. Public Law 95-292 established the ESRD Program Management and Medical Information System (PMMIS). The PMMIS was created in response to the CMS requirement to provide information on ESRD patients once the above legislation ensured that Medicare would pay for the dialysis treatments and kidney transplants required to sustain a patient's life. The ESRD/PMMIS is a mission critical system to the renal community. Clinical Performance Measures (CPM) Data Set was developed in response to section 4558(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which required the Secretary to develop and implement a method to measure and report the quality of dialysis services under the Medicare Program by the year 2000. CPM contains information, in the form of quality measures, on entitled ESRD Beneficiaries who receive hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis treatments. Section 153(c) of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 establishes the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP). This program mandates up to 2% payment reduction for providers of services and dialysis facilities if performance scores do not meet or exceed the established performance standards. Additional background on the ESRD QIP Conceptual Model can be found at: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-22486.pdf Pg 50009, Section XV. The Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) is CMS's key tracking, analysis, and data repository system for Medicare, Medicaid, and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) provider quality of care. QIES collects and validates data on provider and beneficiary specific outcomes of care and performance across a multitude of delivery sites (including nursing homes, home health agencies, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and swing bed hospitals) for use in improving the quality and cost effectiveness of services provided by the Medicare/Medicaid/CLIA Programs. QIES is considered to be a Medicare Modernization Act (of 1999) (MMA) critical CMS system integral to many key CMS's quality of care activities including: the Survey and Certification Program; the Administrator's quality indicators for Nursing Homes (NH) and Home Health Agencies (HHA); complaints and enforcement monitoring; accreditation processes; consumer information initiatives (such as Nursing Home and Home Health Compare); as well as, data validation and survey process enhancement initiatives. QIES is also crucial to CMS' payment systems for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities. The System collects and validates patient assessment data directly linked to claims for payment and correlates utilization groupings to actual patient clinical and functional status. QIES directly supports and implements provisions of Ominibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) 1987, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) HIPAA 1996, Balance Budget Act (BBA) 1997, and the MMA, and numerous implementing regulations. QIES also fulfills CMS action items pursuant to Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports and Congressional committee Corrective Action Plans on the Nursing Home enforcement and complaints processes. QIES has been under development since 1998 and is now at a critical System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) juncture in a multi-year effort to convert our most complex providers (CLIA laboratories and hospitals) from the legacy Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting System (OSCAR) to QIES. Adding to the urgency and complexity of current work are implementation of the legislative mandates of Section 723 of the MMA and National Provider Identifier for HIPAA; and two regulations pursuant to BBA97 making significant changes to the Prospective Payment System (PPS) assessment specifications for both Nursing Homes (NHs) and Home Health Associations (HHAs). The continued, uninterrupted conversion of QIES is critical to CMS's payment and quality of care improvement processes, and to implementation and support of statutory mandates and major CMS and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) initiatives. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of Clinical Standards and Quality (OCSQ) is committed to ensuring that Medicare Beneficiaries receive quality healthcare. One of the primary goals of the CMS is to ensure that Medicare Beneficiaries receive high quality services in a healthy and safe environment. To accomplish this goal, CMS contracts with Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) for the purpose of determining that Medicare services are reasonable and medically necessary; for the purposes of promoting the effective, efficient, and economical delivery of health care services to Medicare Beneficiaries; and of promoting the quality of services of the type for which payment may be made under Medicare. The QIO Program is the Federal Government's only major direct Quality Improvement Program and serves as the CMS primary resource in its efforts to improve the quality of care for Medicare Beneficiaries. OCSQ is responsible for oversight, management, and direction of the Medicare Case Review Program administered by QIOs. The purpose of case reviews is to support the mission of the Medicare Beneficiary Protection Program to improve the quality of care for Medicare Beneficiaries and facilitate the provision of the right care for every person every time. OCSQ seeks to ensure that the Beneficiary complaint processes are efficient, functional, secure, and well documented in the provision of high-quality service in support of Beneficiaries and providers. In an effort to more efficiently monitor and manage QIO activities, while establishing consistency and simplifying the processes, OCSQ seeks to create a National Standardized System to capture, track, manage and analyze the activities associated with the Beneficiary complaint process. The System envisioned will: utilize technologies that meet current CMS standards; implement higher levels of security protections; and drastically improve business functionality. On January 16, 2009, HHS published a final rule adopting ICD-10-CM (and ICD-10-PCS) to replace ICD-9-CM in HIPAA transactions, effective implementation date of October 1, 2014. HCQIS is a downstream user of ICD-10 code set and will undergo major design and development efforts to meet the mandated implementation date. The Contractor shall provide full range of infrastructure support for ICD-10-CM standards implementation in HCQIS. Additional information on ICD-10 adoption can be found at: http://www.cms.gov/ICD10/ Purpose and Objectives: OCSQ Data Center Hosting & Operations will include the following scope of services: A. Operations and hosting of HCQIS application (including hardware & software), continuity of operations, and cycles support (24x7), in federally certified, NIST compliant facilities. B. Support SDLC for Dev/QA/Validation & Verification/Stress Testing/Pre-Production/Production environments. Minimize downtime. C. Must be able to provide a primary data center capacity and operations' abilities, including an ability to scale capacity when needed as demands increase and as more users and/or programs are added. D. Must generate and implement a disaster recovery plan to provide for business continuity and the restoration of services. E. Reduce all costs associated with operating the system. F. Capture, analyze, maintain and present statistics to depict the health of the system, over-all and individual component system capacity, and processing volumes/status. G. Assist in establishing and maintaining physical connectivity between operating data centers and sites across the country H. Must provide for and staff a 24x7 help desk that employs an automated ticketing system for tracking incidents across the lifecycle from the open of a ticket through closure and rectification of the incident. I. Must apply knowledge of physical and data security practices - NIST, FISMA, HIPAA, and OMB Circular. J. Provide change management and configuration management of development release code installations, software, and/or hardware patches/updates. K. Actively manage, control, and perform all change management. L. Provide integration expertise to support technical and project integration of multiple contractors, projects, and tasks. M. Capability to operate, manage, and oversee a primary data center composed of (at minimum): i. Five separate, segregated, and secure environments (Development, Test, Verification & Validation, Stress Test, Production) ii. Maintain Production DMZ, w/multiple path Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) capability iii. Support a minimum of 300 Solaris zones in each life-cycle environment. (12GB/zone for application and web components) iv. Support a minimum of 60 Solaris zones in each life-cycle environment. (32GB/zone for Database instances of Oracle) v. Each zone must have 500 TB of usable-not RAW, storage, to be used or attached to the databases. vi. Support in each zone for a robust File and Print, and e-mail infrastructure, to include the Production environment. The File and Print infrastructure and components must support 90 physical sites of AD File and Print and e-mail services. vii. Connectivity to 80+ WAN circuits (to include T1, NxT1, DS-3, Fiber OC-12, etc.) viii. Networking components, including Remote VPN access, to support all environments, and meet all CMS security and zone policies and guidelines. ix. Have full power failover, with no interruption of service (due to power outages). N. Capability to procure all hardware and software, for the Government's use and benefit, necessary to enhance and support the QualityNet General Support Systems (GSS). Requirements of the Sources Sought for HEALTHCARE ORACLE HOSTING & OPERATION CONTRACTOR (HOHOC): CMS request responses from and encourages 8(a) small disadvantage businesses having experience performing the same or similar work identified within this notice to provide a capability response to this Sources Sought. Your capability responses should include documentation demonstrating the following: (1) Written proof of a CMMI Level III Certification, or higher Certification, or present a plan to definitively accomplish the Level III certification by June 14, 2013. (2) Capability or provide the capability to develop, operate, maintain a large Oracle-based database system installation in Federally Certified, NIST compliant facilities, 24 hours/day, and meeting the Service Level Agreement (SLA) set of standards (3) Experience or the ability to provide the experience with comprehensive change management and configuration programs within a large and integrated system. Sharing responsibility for production deployments and making it happen on schedule, within budget, and within SLA's. Experience with change management process and ability to properly manage code changes thru all lifecycle environments as system releases or changes occur. (4) Experience or the ability to provide the experience employing a comprehensive production deployment methodology in a manner that: a. Reduces the overall implementation burden; b. Enables the completion of production deployments on schedule, within budget, and within the applicable SLA's; and, c. Provide automation capabilities where possible to reduce manual intervention. Experience or the ability to provide the experience operating /managing the Production Control environment: i. Implement all/any updates or roll-outs to production. ii. Create new SOPs for the release/changes to production (5) Experience and capability or the ability to provide the experience to deploy, update and support the following: a. OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Suite) development and guidance/auto metrics and dash board construction. (E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2); b. EVMS (Earned Value Management System) system implementation and application/operation; c. Configuration Practices and Standards; d. Existing industry archiving practices; e. Problem Ticket tool is currently Remedy; f. Application Performance Monitoring; and, g. Validation and Stress testing h. Demonstrate experience and capability to deploy, operate, and support the following: i. Oracle DB (10g & 11g), Oracle WebCenter 2.0 Suite, Oracle Weblogic, SAN(EMC and Clarion units), Solaris (10 & 11), windows Server 2008, Windows Domain Controller, MS Exchange, Remedy 7.5, Ciscoworks. j. Have experience supporting virtualized environments for windows-based and Oracle-based environments: i. Deploy VMWare & Vsphere ii. Oracle global management (6) Experience or the ability to provide the experience establishing a new data center. Design of infrastructure, database architecture, data flows, processing, and reporting. Experience with operating a dynamic data center, (preferably 24x7) building environments/zones, scheduling access and usage (and reuse) of environments/zones, capacity monitoring, cycle management. All the while supporting and maintaining system service level agreements. (Server/zone builds and Up-time for WAN circuits, etc.). (7) Experience or the ability to provide the experience with providing, maintaining, and administering connectivity between systems/data center and customers, utilizing networks, large scale WAN/LAN, web, and maintaining service level agreement(s). (8) Demonstrate and describe knowledge or the ability to provide resources with knowledge of data center and network security, and experience implementing high levels of security to meet third-party audit requirements, and the public trust. (9) Experience or the ability to provide the experience operating a large scale help desk /call center. (10) Experience or the ability to provide the experience maintaining and supporting a large desktop environment. (11) Must have in-depth knowledge or ability to provide resources with the knowledge of systems and data security, information assurance, HIPAA regulations, and confidentiality of Electronic Healthcare Records, to include the design and implementation of robust security measures and controls embodying protection, detection, monitoring and event reaction capabilities that will ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, restoration, authentication, non-repudiation of data. (NIST, FISMA, HIPAA and OMB Circular) (12) Must have knowledge or ability to provide resources with the knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) fundamental methodology. (13) Must have the capability or the ability to provide resources with the knowledge to effectively and efficiently manage cost, schedule and performance using integrated program management processes across all aspects of performance and in a manner that identifies opportunities for cost savings or performance efficiencies. (14) Demonstrate or the ability to provide resources with ability to Provide Support/infrastructure for multiple environments (Development, Test, Verification & Validation, Stress Test, and Production): i. Build of each environment ii. Support/maintain OS, patch-level and management of each area iii. Document build-out of each application introduced to the environment (to allow for fast rebuild/reuse of the environment (15) Maintain and support or SOPs or the ability to provide resources with ability to maintain and support timelines for all life cycle environments, including: i. The monitoring management, and zone capacity usage ii. Build and system administration iii. Database administration iv. Network administration v. DMZ and web administration. vi. Remote VPN Access vii. Storage and Back-up administration viii. Intake, use and request from multiple development contractors ix. Intake, use and request from multiple test and security contractors x. Documentation and configuration of lifecycle environments xi. Movement between lifecycles xii. Change management and troubleshooting xiii. Enterprise Monitoring (16) Experience or the ability to provide resources with experience providing 24x7 monitoring of the HCQIS environment of all areas. (Network, Servers, Applications, Websites, WAN, Power). Anticipated Period of Performance: CMS anticipates issuance of a Cost Reimbursement-type contract under the forthcoming solicitation. However, CMS does reserve the option to use any other procurement instrument as deemed appropriate at the time of the official solicitation. It is also anticipated that this award will be issued as one (1) base period and four (4) one (1) year option periods, with a total effort of five (5) years. Capability Statement: Please provide a brief capability statement for our organization, tailored to demonstrate your relevant experience and/or ability to provide requirements of this magnitude. Please note that if individual capability information does not provide sufficient information for CMS to determine: (1) the potential to successfully perform the work described or (2) the ability to handle the volume indicated, the evaluation of the information will reflect that the offeror did not provide sufficient information to make a determination and CMS will not include the contractor for further consideration. Interested parties having the capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements may submit capability statements via email to herman.harris@cms.hhs.gov. CAPABILITY STATEMENTS MUST DEMONSTRATE THE CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED ABOVE. Please address each in order listed above. Capability Statements shall be limited to 20 pages and shall include any/all teaming arrangements. Capability statements shall also include the following information: 1. Company name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax number, website address (if available), and the name, telephone number, and e-mail address of a point of contact having authority and knowledge to clarify responses with Government representatives. 2. Name, title, telephone number and e-mail addresses of individuals who can verify the demonstrated technical capabilities identified in the responses. 3. Business size and status; must be qualified 8(a) firm (must be certified by SBA) 4. 8(a) firms, please provide a detailed capability statement, focusing on your firm's proven ability to provide the range of requirements. Additionally, please demonstrate your firm's capability to meet the requirements of FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting. 5. DUNS number, Cage Code, Tax Identification Number, and company structure (corporation, LLC, partnership, joint venture, etc.). Companies must also be registered in Central Contractor Registry (CCR, at https://www.bpn.gov/ccr/) to be considered as potential sources. 6. Identification of the available contract vehicles; such as GSA Federal Supply Schedules (schedule/contract number and appropriate Special Item Numbers) or other GWAC vehicles by agency and contract number. 7. All offerors will submit written documentation that their accounting system is adequate for determining costs applicable to the anticipate contract type. The written documentation shall be a letter signed by the appropriate Government official attesting to the adequacy of the accounting system. It is not the responsibility of CMS to obtain this written documentation. Responses must be submitted no later than 12:00 PM EST, June 4, 2012. They should clearly reflect the respondent's ability to meet the requirements included in this notice. Capability statements will not be returned and will not be accepted after the due date. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the review of their submissions. Information received will be considered solely to make informed decisions regarding a potential 8(a) set-aside. Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
 

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