SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- National Consensus Development and Strategic Planning for Healthcare Quality Measurement Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract - Statement of Work
- Notice Date
- 3/27/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, 7500 Security Blvd., C2-21-15, Baltimore, Maryland, 21244-1850
- ZIP Code
- 21244-1850
- Solicitation Number
- CMS-2012-IDIQ-SS
- Point of Contact
- Christina F Heller, Phone: 410-786-1896
- E-Mail Address
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christina.heller@cms.hhs.gov
(christina.heller@cms.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Schedule of Deliverables Statement of Work Background: This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE to determine the availability of potential small businesses (e.g., 8(a), service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, veteran-owned small business, and women-owned small business) in accordance with FAR 7.104(d). The potential small business will need to demonstrate the ability to provide consensus development endorsement of healthcare performance measures, revise and maintenance of performance measures and their data items, efforts to make recommendations on integrated national strategies and priorities for healthcare performance measurement, promote the development and use of electronic health records (EHRs), convene multi-stakeholder groups and transmit their consensus-based input on national priorities and performance measurement activities. History: With the development and release of the 2011 National Quality Strategy, coordination of public- and private- quality improvement initiatives, and passage of legislation, such as the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA), American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), consensus-based endorsement and input from experts and stakeholders are seminal for the improvement of healthcare performance measurement. CMS and HHS have previously contracted with consensus-based entities to support efforts driven to improve performance measurement. Describe the work: These requirements apply to contractors under the 541990 NAICS code. The Contract will require preparation and completion of the tasks detailed in the IDIQ Statement of Work (SOW) and the SOW within each individual Task Order. Task Orders under the contract will involve work under the following domains: 1. National Strategy and Priorities for Healthcare Performance Measurement The Contractor will synthesize evidence and convene key stakeholders to make recommendations on an integrated national strategy and priorities for health care performance measurement in all applicable settings. 2. Consensus Endorsement of Healthcare Quality Measures The Contractor will provide for the endorsement and expedited review of standardized health care performance measures. 3. Maintenance and Ad Hoc Review of Consensus Endorsed Measures The Contractor will establish and implement a maintenance and ad hoc review process to ensure that endorsed measures are updated (or retired if obsolete) as new evidence is developed. 4. Promotion of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) The Contractor will undertake activities to promote the development and use of interoperable electronic health records that contain the functionality for automated collection, aggregation, and transmission of performance measurement information. The Contractor will convene stakeholders for consensus processes and input to support activities involving electronic measure capabilities, value sets, and care improvement interventions. Such activities shall promote the specification and use of Health Information Technology standards in quality measurement. 5. Multi-stakeholder Input The Contractor will convene multi-stakeholder groups and transmit their consensus-based input on national priorities and performance measurement activities to CMS and HHS annually. The multi-stakeholder group will provide input on national priorities and efforts driven to improve the delivery of healthcare services. They will also review the selection of quality measures, as described in Social Security Act Section 1890(b)(7), as a part of the Federal Pre-rulemaking Process. The multi-stakeholder group input will support alignment activities involving performance measurement programs, priorities, and initiatives. 6. Ad Hoc Consensus Projects The Contractor will establish and implement consensus-based processes and convene multi-stakeholder groups for ad hoc projects involving frameworks, final reports, measure reviews, and support for HHS initiatives and public- and private- partnerships regarding performance measurement. Under each Task Order domain, the Contractor will provide appropriate outreach to stakeholders, public and CMS/HHS education, and public dissemination of activities. The contract will include the following requirements: 1. Overall Contract Work Plan. The Contractor must submit to the CMS Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) an Overall Contract Work Plan, in Microsoft Project, that addresses project planning, implementation, management, quality assurance, and evaluation during the contract performance period. At a minimum, the Work Plan must address all methods, processes, procedures, quality assurance, management activities, and protocols necessary for effective and efficient completion of tasks. The Work Plan requirements are further outlined in the IDIQ SOW. 2. Summary of Individual Task Order Work Plan. The Contractor must submit to the CMS COR and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Government Task Lead (GTL) a monthly Summary Work Plan which summarizes for each task order issued, the status of project planning, implementation, management, quality assurance, and evaluation that has occurred during the previous monthly contract period. The Summary Work Plans, at a minimum, must address all methods, processes, procedures, quality assurance, management activities, and protocols necessary for an effective and efficient completion of tasks. The Summary Work Plans requirements are further outlined in the IDIQ SOW. 3. Education. Prior to initial deliberations for committees and multi-stakeholders review and evaluation of measures and applicable content for endorsement, reports, and input, the Contractor will provide the CMS COR, HHS GTL, and the committees and multi-stakeholders with the appropriate material and education necessary for the review process in a timely fashion. The Education requirements are further outlined in the IDIQ SOW. 4. Monthly Progress Reports. The Contractor staff will be responsible for e-mailing the CMS COR and HHS GTL a Monthly Progress Report for each Task Order. The Monthly Progress Report requirements are further outlined in the IDIQ SOW and Task Order SOWs. 5. Weekly Conference Calls. Every Week conference calls, specific to Task Orders, must be held between the CMS COR, HHS GTLs, and Contractor staff to go over current activities. 6. Final Report. The final reports that have been endorsed and prepared by the Contractor will be provided to CMS and HHS. Final reports will adhere to the IDIQ SOW and the Task Order SOW. List Contractor Requirements: Contractors must respond to all the following points, by indicating your experience and ability to provide documentation and/or evidence of meeting each of the following requirements: 1. The Contractor must be a private nonprofit entity governed by a board. 2. The members of the board of the Contractor must include-- a. representatives of health plans and health care providers and practitioners or representatives of groups representing such health plans and health care providers and practitioners; b. health care consumers, family caregivers of consumers, or representatives of groups representing health care consumers and their caregivers; c. representatives of groups representing population health organizations and agencies; and d. representatives of purchasers and employers or representatives of groups representing purchasers or employers. 3. The membership of the Contractor must have experience with-- a. urban health care issues; b. safety net health care issues; c. rural and frontier health care issues; and d. health care quality and safety issues. 4. With respect to matters related to the contract, the Contractor must conduct its business in an open and transparent manner and include: a. the opportunity for public comment on its activities. b. input from expert technical opinion on the quality of candidate consensus measures - with assurances that such input does not impede the consensus process by prohibiting opportunities for broad membership and public review and comment; c. the inclusion of quality measure developers on technical expert panels when possible; d. access to the consensus-process by a wide variety of both individual and group healthcare industry stakeholders; and 5. The Contractor must operate as a voluntary consensus standards setting organization as defined for purposes of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-113) and Office of Management and Budget Revised Circular A-119 (published in the Federal Register on February 10, 1998). 6. The Contractor must have knowledge and experience in establishing national consensus standards. 7. If the entity requires a membership fee for participation in the functions of the entity, such fees shall be reasonable and adjusted based on the capacity of the potential member to pay the fee. In no case shall membership fees pose a barrier to the participation of individuals or groups with low or nominal resources to participate in the functions of the entity. 8. The Contractor must demonstrate the ability to synthesize evidence and convene key stakeholders to make recommendations on an integrated national strategy, quality improvement initiatives, and priorities for health care performance measurement in all applicable settings and input on the selection of performance measures, as defined under Social Security Act Section 1890(b)(7). 9. The Contractor must demonstrate the ability to provide for the endorsement and expedited review of standardized health care performance measures. The endorsement process under the preceding sentence shall-- a. consider whether a measures is evidence-based, reliable, valid, verifiable, relevant to enhanced health outcomes, actionable at the caregiver level, feasible to collect and report, and responsive to variations in patient characteristics, such as health status, language capabilities, race or ethnicity, and income level; and b. consider whether a measures is consistent across types of health care providers, including hospitals and physicians. c. include an appeals process congruent with a voluntary consensus standards setting organization as defined under the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-113) and Office of Management and Budget Revised Circular A-119. The Contractor must provide samples of endorsement and expedited review processes that have taken place. 10. The Contractor must exhibit the ability to establish and implement a process to ensure that endorsed measures are updated (or retired if obsolete), under a maintenance and ad hoc review process, as new evidence is developed and priorities evolve. 11. The Contractor must provide evidence on their ability to promote the development and use of electronic health records that contain the functionality for automated collection, aggregation, and transmission of performance measurement information. Specifically, the Contractor should provide examples of work involving electronic measure tool development, retooling of quality measures to the electronic measure format, and collaboration with stakeholders in the promotion of electronic quality measure development and use. 12. The Contractor must demonstrate the ability to prepare and finalize reports and measurement frameworks involving topics such as measurement gaps, multiple chronic conditions, and priorities of the National Quality Strategy. 13. The Contractor must provide evidence of convening multi-stakeholders to provide input on national priorities and the HHS selection of quality measures under the Pre-rulemaking Process of the Social Security Act Section 1890(b)(7). The Contractor must also demonstrate the transmission of such input to HHS. 14. The Contractor must provide evidence that their ability to conduct consensus-based endorsement activities will not conflict with the organization's other duties, such as performance measure development and implementation. A conflict of interest may affect consensus-based processes. Interested parties having the capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements may submit capability statements via email to Christina Heller, Christina.heller@cms.hhs.gov. CAPABILITY STATEMENTS MUST DEMONSTRATE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED ABOVE. Please address each in order listed above. Teaming Arrangements: All teaming arrangements shall include the above-cited information and certifications for each entity on the proposed team. Teaming arrangements are encouraged. Responses must be submitted not later than Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2pm EDT. Capability statements will not be returned and will not be accepted after the due date. This is not an invitation for bid, request for proposal or other solicitation and in no way obligates CMS to award a contract. The sole intent of this Sources Sought Notice is to obtain capabilities for set-aside and procurement planning purposes. Please provide the follow Business information: 1. DUNS Number 2. Company Name 3. Company Address. 4. Company Point of Contact, phone number and email address 5. Type of company under NAICS, as validated via the Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Additional information on NAICS codes can be found at www.sba.gov. Any potential government contract must be registered on the CCR located at http://www.ccr.gov/index.asp. 6. Corporate structure (corporation, LLC, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, professional corporation, etc.); 7. Current GSA Schedules appropriate to this Sources Sought 8. Current Government Wide Agency Contracts (GWACs) 9. Point of Contact, phone number and email address of individuals who can verify the demonstrated capabilities identified in the responses. 10. Responders should also include a statement about whether or not they have an approved Federal audited accounting system. If the responder has an approved accounting system, please provide the certification in which the accounting system was deemed adequate (e.g. the name of the audit agency and audit number). You may submit as an attachment, which will not count towards the overall page limit. All capability statements can be submitted via e-mail to the point of contact listed below. Responses shall be limited to no more than 15 pages, with the exception of the SOW questions/comments. CMS software standard is MS Word. Therefore, responses should be submitted in a Word, or Word compatible, document. Page size should be 8.5 by 11 inches with a 1 inch boarder. Responses must be submitted no later than Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2pm EDT. Documentation should be sent to: Contracting Officer, Christina Heller, christina.heller@cms.hhs.gov. Caution: In an effort to respond timely, you are hereby notified that the CMS email server does not deliver emails and/or attachments over 5 megabytes to recipients during normal working hours. These large files are released from the CMS server after 5:00pm each business day.
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