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D -- DATA QUALITY AND STANDARDS SUPPORT FOR THE MEDICARE CLAIMS DATA MART DUE 061200 POC Lucille F. Lee (410) 786-5447 E-MAIL: Data Quality and Standards Support for the Medicare, lfusselllee@hcfa.gov. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) intends to award on a competitive basis under the Simplified Acquisition Procedure (Dollar Threshold of $100,000) an award for contractor support to incorporate the data displayed via the current HCFA Customer Information System (HCIS) into a Medicare claims data mart. HCIS provides HCFA data users with access to highly summarized Medicare claims data to support research and fraud detection projects. HCFA plans to expand this functionality via a Medicare claims data mart. The contractor shall review and document edits and transformations utilized in the implementation of HCIS and evaluate these edits and transformations with respect to the Medicare claims data mart. The contractor shall define and develop the dimensions to support data retrieval. Standards would be developed in the creation of these dimensions to assure consistency and accuracy in the retrieval of information from the Medicare claims data mart. The contractor shall be familiar with the Kimbal data warehousing methodology. This is a critical to defining dimensions to support data retrieval. The contractor shall demonstrate an understanding of the HCIS data models. The contractor shall have experience with relational design and dimensional modeling. The contractor shall be familiar with the HCFA infrastructure, including the mainframe and mid-tier architecture. Familiarity with the National Medicare Utilization Database (NMUD) project is mandatory. Both issues significantly impact the methodology proposed for the data edits and transformations. The contractor shall have an extensive working knowledge of the HCIS application. The contractor shall have a comprehensive, detailed understanding of the data requirements that go into building the system as well as the user requirments for the front-end application that makes the data available. The contractor shall have extensive knowledge of the National Claims History (NCH) data element utilized by the HCIS application. The contractor shall have an indepth understanding of the edits and transformations applied in the HCIS summary data programs. The contractor shall have experience in modeling Medicare data. The contractor shall have experience designing software for Medicare applications. This experience is essential to assess maintenance and scalability issues. The Government will make award to the responsible offeror(s) whose offer conforms to the Request for Quotation (RFQ) and is most advantageous to the Government, technical factors and price considered. As the proposals become more equal in technical merit, the evaluated price will become more important. The Government reserves the right, however, to make award to the offeror who provides reasonable expectation of superior technical performance, regardless of the offeror's price relative to other offeror' price. Your evaluation of the technical factors will be based on information in your proposal that offers the greatest value for the Government. Failure to respond to the specific technical factors will preclude determining your technical capability. Failure to submit all of the above requirements will result in a rejection of your RFQ. Please keep additional material in your proposal to a minimum. A Request-for-Quote will be issued. Requests for all offerors may be faxed to (410) 786-9643. Posted 05/24/00 (W-SN458384). (0145)

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