Questions and Answers 05GA0A24Q0025 (RFQ Amendment 0002) rev1.xlsx
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This document contains Questions and Answers related to Request for Quotation (RFQ) Amendment 0002 for Solicitation Number 05GA0A24Q0025, a data service on commercial health insurance claims in the United States.
The RFQ is being issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for eight user accounts to access commercial health insurance claims data. The data should cover 20 million lives per year for the period of 2019-2023. GAO does not require the data to identify specific providers or payers. The vendor is not required to have a GSA schedule contract or be FedRAMP authorized, but must have an established baseline of security controls. Vendors can include their license agreement as part of the quotation, but it will not be incorporated by reference in the contract. GAO has indicated they do not anticipate any changes to the data user accounts during the study. Vendors are asked to provide a quote for providing the first six months of 2023 data immediately upon award.
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| Tracking No. | Technical Inquiry & Question | RFQ Reference | Response / Answer | Type | RFQ Change |
| 1 | Vendor is not on a GSA schedule, would this preclude us from responding? If so, would teamining with a partner who is on GSA be an option? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0001 | This is not a GSA Solicitation. Please refer to Attachment 05GA0A24Q0025 Amend 0001. There will be no teaming with a GSA partner. | Question | No change |
| 2 | Are vendor's who do not have the NAICS code 541519 on their existing GSA contracts eligible to respond to the opportunity? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0001 | This is not a GSA Solicitation. Please refer to Attachment 05GA0A24Q0025 Amend 0001. | Question | No change |
| 3 | The solicitation requires the data source to cover 20 million lives annually. Is this intended to indicate that the data should include 20 million lives for each year (2019-2023, 100 million lives total), or 20 million lives across the entire time period? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | The data should cover 20 million lives for each year. | Question | No change |
| 4 | Is GAO at liberty to share which congressionally mandated study the data access will be used for? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | The work is being conducted in response to Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Pub. L. No. 116-260, div. BB, tit. I, § 109(b), 133 Stat. 1182, 2860 (2020). | Question | No change |
| 5 | Do the GAO researchers anticipate needing to merge any datasets with the commercial claims data, such as a separate dataset linked by 5-digit zip codes or by NPI? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | It is possible that GAO researchers will need to merge another dataset with the commercial claims data. | Question | No change |
| 6 | The Vendor dataset is provided encrypted; provider-level analysis is possible, but the providers are not identifiable. Is it necessary for providers to be named for the purposes of this study? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | It is not necessary for providers to be named. | Question | No change |
| 7 | Similarly, does GAO need to be able to identify payers/health plans in the data? Payers are deidentified in the Vendor dataset. | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | GAO does not need to be able to identify payers/health plans in the data. | Question | No change |
| 8 | Each project license includes access for two data users; additional seats are available for a fee. A fee is also associated with data users changing (or swapping) seats. How many user changes does the GAO anticipate throughout the study? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | We do not anticipate user changes during the study. | Question | Remove "5. The vendor must allow platform accounts to be reassigned among GAO staff as GAO team members change." under 1 Attachment A - Statement of Work (SOW), 3 Factor 1 - Technical Quotation Instructions, and 7 Factor 1 - Technical Evaluation Criteria. |
| 9 | Will the GAO consider an offer if the vendor does not currently have a GSA contract for the services requested in this solicitation? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0001 | Yes, this is not a GSA solicitation. Please refer to Attachment 05GA0A24Q0025 Amend 0001. | Question | No change |
| 10 | Is the vendor required to be authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®)? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | The vendor is not required to be authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. As the data will be accessed through an online platform, FedRAMP considerations are out of scope for our evaluation. However, the vendor must have an established baseline of controls i.e. preferably NIST 800-53, but can work with others. | Question | No change |
| 11 | Is it sufficient if the vendor offers access to its data and platform services using AWS Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs), and the AWS CSOs are authorized for Federal and DoD use by FedRAMP? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | The vendor is not required to be authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. As the data will be accessed through an online platform, FedRAMP considerations are out of scope for our evaluation. However, the vendor must have an established baseline of controls i.e. preferably NIST 800-53, but can work with others. | Question | No change |
| 12 | If demonstrating the vendor’s platform AWS FedRAMP-certified Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs) is sufficient, what documentation will be required to meet the security requirements for GAO? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | The vendor is not required to be authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. As the data will be accessed through an online platform, FedRAMP considerations are out of scope for our evaluation. However, the vendor must have an established baseline of controls i.e. preferably NIST 800-53, but can work with others. | Question | No change |
| 13 | Due to HIPPA restrictions and other privacy limitations eg, re-identification of data, we will submit our License Agreement to be incorporated by reference should we be awarded the contract. We plan to submit that license agreement with our Financial Volume. Is that acceptable to the government? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | No vendor license agreement will be incorporated by reference in the contract’s terms and conditions. However, a vendor can include their license agreement in the quotation, and the Government will evaluate accordingly. | Question | No change |
| 14 | Given the acquisition is a data license (product) rather than services, not all of the Clauses listed in the RFQ apply. Should we be awarded the contract we will abide by all of the listed Federal Acquisition Requirements, but should we note items that we think may not apply, such as Section 5 GAO Security Clause requirements on Citizenship and Security Screening given we will not be staffing resources to work in GAO environment? | 05GA0A24Q0025 0001 | No, the vendor should abide to all clauses present in the solicitation. | Question | No change |
| 15 | Our data is quoted for calendar year releases. We can provide complete 2023 data as of December, 2024. We can provide the first six months of 2023 data immediately upon award, but that is at an additional cost. Should we provide two cost options, one for each of the above scenarios. | 05GA0A24Q0025 0002 | Please provide a quote for providing the first six months of 2023 data immediately upon award. We do not need to see a quote for providing complete 2023 data in December 2024. | Technical | No change |
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