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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF AUGUST 03, 2002 FBO #0244
SPECIAL NOTICE

99 -- Development of Short-Range Stochastic Projection Model

Notice Date

8/1/2002
 

Notice Type

Special Notice
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Acquisition and Grants Group, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Central Building, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
 

ZIP Code

21244-1850
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-732-2-419201
 

Response Due

9/16/2002
 

Point of Contact

Lydia Smith, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-6634, Fax 410-786-9643,
 

E-Mail Address

LSmith1@cms.hhs.gov
 

Description

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intends to award on a sole source basis under Simplified Acquisition Procedures with James M. Robinson, Ph.D., F.S.A. of the University of Wisconsin, Center for Health Systems Research & Analysis, 1187 WARF, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53705 a contract to develop a Short Range Stochastic Project Model for the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Dr. Robinson is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and has a Ph.D. in statistics. He has specialized in the statistical analysis of income-security plans and health care insurance, including extensive use of stochastic techniques. The combination of his actuarial and statistical training, together with his advanced knowledge of stochastic processes and modeling, provide an ideal skill set for CMS? Office of the Actuary?s (OACT) effort to develop a stochastic project model for the HI Trust fund. Moreover, Dr. Robinson is intimately familiar with Medicare?s financial operations and with OACT?s existing deterministic trust fund projection methodology and stochastic methodology for the SMI trust fund. Dr. Robinson is the only person in the country who could undertake this project without need to spend a substantial amount of time acquiring an in-depth knowledge of Medicare trust fund operations, actuarial projection techniques, and/or stochastic projection methods. If there are no affirmative written responses received within (45) calendar days from the published date of this notice, a purchase order shall be awarded.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland

Zip Code: 21244

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00130214-W 20020803/020801213258 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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