SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Primary Part A and Part B (A/B) Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)
- Notice Date
- 7/29/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 524114
— Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
- ZIP Code
- 21244-1850
- Solicitation Number
- CMS-2005-0016
- Archive Date
- 8/15/2005
- Description
- Section 911 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take the necessary steps between now and 2011 to implement Medicare Contracting Reform (MCR). MCR will bring standard contracting principles to Medicare such as competition and performance incentives. These basic contracting principles which have been applied to other federal programs under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) have been missing from the Medicare Contracting environment. CMS is required to replace the current contracting authority under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act with the new Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) authority. The law directs CMS to conduct full and open competitions for new MACs, that will perform the work currently being handled by fiscal intermediaries, carriers, regional home health intermediaries, and durable medical equipment regional carriers in administering the Medicare fee-for-service program. As such, CMS anticipates conducting a full and open competition for the Part A and Part B Medicare Administrative Contractors (A/B MAC). The A/B MAC will provide specified fee-for-service health insurance benefit administration services, including Medicare claims processing and payment services, for most all institutional health care as well as for providers. In addition to the core A/B MAC workload, CMS anticipates including optional services to be performed. Optional services include functions related to Graduate Medical Demonstration and the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration. It is anticipated that this competition will result in award of one, stand-alone A/B MAC contract. This contract will include a base year and four, one-year options. Any questions should be directed to Ms. Melinda (Miki) Lewis, Contract Specialist, at (410) 786-5461, or by sending e-mail to Melinda.Lewis@cms.hhs.gov. E-mail communications should include company name and size (Large/Small), address, point of contact, phone and fax numbers. Any additional information and documents on this requirement will be posted to FedBizOpps. CMS anticipates release of the Request for Proposal (RFP) by mid September 2005.
- Record
- SN00857804-W 20050731/050729211859 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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