SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD TO A SINGLE SOURCE FOR ELECTRONIC BILLING SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 6/19/2020 11:25:36 AM
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE PORTLAND OR 97209 USA
- ZIP Code
- 97209
- Solicitation Number
- 75H71320Q00029
- Response Due
- 6/24/2020 12:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 07/09/2020
- Point of Contact
- Allan Gaerlan
- E-Mail Address
-
Allan.Gaerlan@ihs.gov
(Allan.Gaerlan@ihs.gov)
- Description
- The Indian Health Service (IHS), Portland Area Office intends to solicit one (1) firm fixed price commercial items services for Electronic Billing Services �to a single source, Change HealthCare Operations, LLC in pursuant to FAR subpart 13.106-1(b)(i). Change HealthCare Operations, LLC was previously under Portland Area Office Area wide Blanket Purchase Agreement that ended on March 7, 2019.The Portland Area Office advised the Service Units that use Change HealthCare Operations, LLC, to establish their own Purchase Order. This is a follow-on to getting a Purchase order in place for Western Oregon Service Unit (WOSU) aka Chemawa Indian Health Center. The electronic billing services provide three (3) electronic billing services for WOSU. The three accounts are Claim Master which includes Payment Manager & ERA services, Dental Connect & Dental Claims services and Pharmacy electronic billing services. Portland Area Service Units have been utilizing this firm for private insurance export for many years. As a result, WOSU created a cost analysis of the trend when the service unit utilize Change HealthCare�s services. Exporting through Change HealthCare does not require extra material, equipment or any adjustment with WOSU�s two full-time employee�s tour of duty. WOSU provides medical, dental, Behavior health, Optometry and Pharmacy services for approximately 5,000 active patients. WOSU�s Business office requires the use of Change Healthcare�s services to bill private insurance companies electronically. The NAICS code is 541990 and the small business size standard $15.0 Million. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency. Responses shall be received by June 24, 2020, 12:00 P.M. (PST) in order to be considered. Email responses to Allan.Gaerlan@ihs.gov, with the subject line entitled �75H71320Q00029.��� Questions must be submitted via email to Allan.Gaerlan@ihs.gov one day before the closing due date and time. Disclaimer and Important Notes:� This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract. Any information provided by industry to the Government as a result of notice is strictly voluntary. Responses will not be returned. No entitlements to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges to the Government will arise because of contractor submission of responses or the Government's use of such information 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; also, Respondents must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). Respondents are advised that the Government will be 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 on a government GPE. 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).
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://beta.sam.gov/opp/6559a6f022624e92b07510d4a5faa399/view)
- Place of Performance
- Address: OR, USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN05696755-F 20200621/200622142802 (samdaily.us)
- Source
-
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