Indefinite Delivery Contract HHSM500201600050I

A. Reddix & Associates Inc., doing business as Ardx, was awarded an indefinite delivery contract under the Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC) program by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. SPARC is a multiple award IDV intended to serve as the primary contract vehicle for CMS IT systems and support services across the enterprise performance life cycle. Ardx was eligible to receive task orders for initiation, concept, planning, requirements, design, development, testing, sustainment, and data request services.

A task order awarded to Ardx under the SPARC IDV was a $7.7 million firm fixed price delivery order for adaptive control testing of CMS FISMA systems through February 2021. This effort provided agency-wide security testing to evaluate CMS information security management in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act. Places of performance for Ardx under the SPARC contract and associated task orders were located in Windsor Mill and Milford Mill, Maryland. The contract supported CMS' efforts to ensure the security of federal healthcare information technology systems and data.