DEVELOP AND UTILIZE FACILITY-SPECIFIC DATA REPORTS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE STATE OF A DATA-DRIVEN ESRD SURVEY PROCESS. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) intends to award on a sole source basis, a cost-reimbursement contract to The Regents of the University of Michigan, 3003 S. State, Room 1044, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1274. Through the legislative mandate of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA), a method to measure and report about the quality of services in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) facilities is required. In 1997, Congress passed the BBA. Section 4558(b) of the Act, Renal Dialysis Related Services, Implementation of Quality Standards, directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a method to measure and report quality of renal dialysis services provided under the Medicare program under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act. HCFA has been assigned responsibility for the development and implementation of this Section of the BBA. As part of this BBA implementation effort, HCFA is developing faciity-specific data reports that will be used by State Survey Agencies to focus and structure their review of ESRD facilities. This strategy for the BBA is consistent with the National Performance Review (NPR) effort and the related commitment to the Reinvention of Health Care Regulation (REGO). Under the aegis of NPR and REGO, HCFA determined that the Agency would provide adequate support for a modern, data-driven ESRD survey system based on an outcome-oriented approach. In order to achieve the state of a data-driven ESRD survey process, it is necessary to develop and utilize facility-specific data reports for this process. This contract will develop user-friendly data profiles for survey purposes with existing data bases and elements. The data profiles must be useable for State Agencies in prioritizing and selecting facilities to survey and for structuring the survey process to understand the facility's strengths in order to identify potential problems and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the survey process. The data profiles must have the following features: (1) be both descriptive and outcome-oriented; (2) be facility-specific; (3) show comparative values for states and the nation to provide context; and (4) be displayed and described for efficient and effective use. This synopsis is for information purposes only, does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. Specific qualifications needed to perform this work are: 1) experience calculating facility-specific rates for dialysis facilties in the United States using the Wolfe methodology. The rates to be calculated include Standard Mortality Rate, Standard Hospitaliztion Rate, and Standard Transplantation Rate; 2) experience tracking individual end-stage renal disease patients across the nation, placing patients at individual facilities, using ESRD PMMIS/REBUS, standard analytical files, national Claims History Enrollment Database, and UNOS files; 3) experience producing national unit-specific reports in a format that utilizes text and tables to display facility, State, Network, and national comparative data regarding the characteristics of patients, patterns of treatment, and patterns in transplantation, hospitalization and mortality in developing screening tools that can be self-administered; e.g. by Medicaid beneficiaries or their parents; and 4) current involvement in separate contracts to update HCFA database and to produce facility-specific reports for public disclosure. Interested parties who believe they can meet these requirements should submit a written capability statement within fifteen (15) days of the publication date of this notice to: HCFA, Acquisition and Grants Group, Division of Quality Contracts, ATTN: Beverly Gillette, Mail Stop C2-21-15, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850. No telephone or telegraphic requests will be accepted. The name of a point of contact should be specified, include a telephone number and indicate your organization size status per Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.102. It is anticipated that a cost-reimbursement contract will be awarded (but HCFA reserves the right to award other types of contract arrangements) with a 24-month period of performance to begin on or about September 30, 2000. Posted 07/29/00 (W-SN480190).

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