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99 -- HCFA SOCIAL MARKETING GEOMAPPING SERVICES" POC Renee A. Wallace, Contract Specialist, (410) 8786-5128 The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) intends to award under Simplified Acquisition Procedures, a government purchase order, for the following services: Contractor shall develop internal products for the staff in the Center for Beneficiary Services (CBS), Planning and Analysis Group to implement a variety of Geomapping activities and to establish a simplified acquisition mechanism to obtain maps, mapping consultation and support to ensure that CBS program requirements and objectives are met with the highest quality maps available quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively. This project seeks to identify offerors who can develop, produce, map and deliver in a timely fashion, maps depicting a variety of Medicare beneficiary characteristics for health c are programs and to request consultation services to create software applications and other information technologies to develop a library of map template files (print and electronic), and requisite data files (database or spreadsheet-print and electronic). These will be used visualize beneficiary characteristics critical for planning, analysis, program development and other functions within CBS, HCFA Central and Regional Offices and our Partners. The contractor shall provide all the personnel, materials, services and supplies needed to accomplish the following activities: 1) Develop a plan describing the required components needed to design a GIS initiative for the Agency, 2) Access, establish links with and/or develop health care demographic databases to be used for our mapping activities to include but are not limited to the following: Census Bureau data to include race/ethnicity, income, education, living arrangements, age breakdowns, gender, etc.; Other federal agency databases: Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics, National Institutes of Health; Lifestyle and behavioral data; Health services utilization; Managed care participation; Insurance coverage/Uninsured populations. 3)Conduct mapping of HCFA program beneficiaries according to defined characteristics which includes but is not limited to: Managed care penetration, by county, state, nationally; Medicare, Medicaid, Child Health population increases; Age distribution and changes within populations; Disabled beneficiary increases and changes; Various insurance populations; Numbers of risk and cost contracts; Shifts in the numbers of physicians participating in managed care plans; Kinds of procedures performed by location; Child poverty rates; Rural population centers; Behavioral and lifestyle characteristics such as smoking, injury and drugs. (4 Provide map-on-demand services, 5)Obtain and install on 1 HCFA computer new databases as needed. 6) Provide consultation services to develop templates of maps using ArcView Software by HCFA staff in house. The contractor shall develop and work plan prior to map production and will involve the following activities for each map produced. Provide 60 hours of geocoding and computer programming services as needed. and 8) Provide support services for 6 presentations. All technical questions concerning this announcement should be directed to Suzanne Rotwein (410) 786-6621. Acquisition related questions should be referred to Renee Wallace (410) 786-5128. See Numbered Note 22. Posted 07/27/99 (I-SN359612). (0208)

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