Tista Science and Technology Corporation was awarded an indefinite delivery contract vehicle known as the Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC) by the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in June 2016. The SPARC has a potential value of $0.00 and serves as a major contract vehicle for CMS IT systems and support across the project lifecycle. Tista has received several delivery orders against SPARC for tasks such as Marketplace Testing Support Team services ($69M), Unified Case Management bridge support ($7.45M), Unified Case Management implementation ($117M), and maintenance of systems such as the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System Technical Support Office website ($1M) and Medicare Appeals and Inquiries system (MAISTRO, $3.93M). Places of performance include Maryland.
Set asides on the orders have included 8(a) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. The original solicitation described SPARC as the primary contract vehicle to obtain IT services for CMS and other HHS agencies, including initiation, design, development, testing, maintenance, and other services. Tista thus provides a range of IT professional services to support CMS programs involving healthcare enrollment, appeals, and data systems under an indefinite delivery contract using fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangements. Periods of performance range from 2019 to 2027.