Preproposal_conference.docx

A pre-proposal conference webinar will take place on June 29, 2015 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm EST. In order to register for the event, please email Sharrilyn Evered at _Sharrilyn.Evered@cms.hhs.gov with the company name, and attendees’ phone numbers. Please note that this information will later be distributed to the attendees for potential partnering arrangements. When registering, also provide a point of contact, and the number of phone lines that your organization will be dialing in from so that we can accommodate all participants. Interested parties wishing to attend the pre-proposal conference must respond by June 26, 2015.

Attendees can dial-in at 10:00 am EST by calling 1-877-267-1577. You will be prompted to enter the meeting ID which is 992 840 279. Due to a limited number of phone lines, we ask for no more than 5 phone lines per organization. You must dial-in in the first 10 minutes of the conference to ensure that your call is received. A webinar will accompany the teleconference which can be accessed at https://webinar.cms.hhs.gov/r89eiuaoppq/.

The purpose of the Pre-Proposal Conference is to provide interested parties with an opportunity to seek clarification of the RFP. The Pre-Proposal Conference is for information only. CMS will attempt to provide oral responses to all questions, including both those submitted in writing in advance and those asked during the Pre-Proposal Conference. Any answers furnished during the conference, however, are preliminary, and will not be official until provided in writing. Each written response will replace and supersede, to the extent it is inconsistent in any way, the oral response provided at the Pre-Proposal Conference. Changes resulting from the conference are official only if issued through an amendment to the solicitation.

The agenda will be as follows: