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99 -- SYSTEMS STANDARDS & DATA ARCHITECTURE SUPPORT" POC Renee Wallace, Contract Specialist, (410) 786-5128 The Health Care Financing Administration intends to award under Simplified Acquisition Procedures the following services: HCFA requires contractor support to migrate/integrate the current HCFA Customer Information System (HCIS) into a Medicare claims data mart. 1) The contractor shall assist in developing the systems architecture to support Medicare claims data mart. 2)The contractor shall define data access and user requirements for the Medicare claims data mart. 3)The contractor shall assist HCFA in designing and implementing a front-end to the data mart utilizing data access tools such as Cognos. The contractor shall have experience designing front-end applications with emphasis on the ability to design an application that is powerful but user-friendly for HCFA staff as well as fiscal intemediaries and carriers. The contractor shall be familar with the Kimball data warehousing methodology, as this is critical to defining dimensions to support data retrieval. The contractor must demonstrate an understanding of HCIS data models. The contractor must have experience with relational design and dimensional modeling. The contractor shall have extensive working knowledge of the HCIS application and familiarity with other Medicare reporting and decision support systems (e.e. APS, Cost Reports, etc.) The contractor shall have a comprehensive, detailed understanding of the data requirements that go into building the system as well as the user requirements for the front-end application that makes data available. The contractor shall have extensive knowledge of the NCH data elements as utilized by the HCIS application and familiarity with the NCH data elements utilized by other Medicare reporting and decision support systems. The contractor shall have an in-depth understand of the edits and transformations applied in other Medicare reporting and decision support systems. This infomation is essential for developing the systems architecture (maintenance issues concerning data updates). 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. Familarity with the HCFA infrastructure is required, including the mainframe and mid-tier architecture. Familiarity with the National Medicare Utilization Database (NMUD) project is mandatory -- (logical and physical data models,m architecture, platform size and scope of the system). Both issues significantly impact the methodology proposed for the data edits and transformations. All developers and designers of relational data structures supporting HCFA sponsored applications are required to be aware of and adhere to HCFA's Data Management standards and procudures. All responsible sources may submit capability statements for consideration to the Agency at the above address. See Numbered Note 22 Posted 06/01/00 (W-SN460574). (0153)

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