Three Clarifications Amendment 000004.docx

Clarification 1:

CMS will not extend the proposal delivery date beyond April 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM EST.

Clarification 2:

At this time, the Government would like to clarify that “cost savings” may be included in the Technical Proposal (Volume I), Tab C.2.2. The Offeror is also reminded (in addition to the response to ID #75) of the instruction under L.13 for Tab C.2.2, which states:

In discussing each proposed innovation, the Offeror shall discuss what each proposed innovation will do and describe the overall benefit to the Government. Benefits to the Government may be operational cost savings, improved customer services, reductions to improper payments, etc. Where applicable, the Offeror shall crosswalk the benefit to the line items/functional areas of its cost proposal templates and/or its Attachment J-7 submission (e.g., specific level of effort savings reported for each affected WBS line). Where level of effort savings are proposed for innovations, the Offeror shall separately identify the hourly savings to each functional area (e.g., hours saved to WBS item C.5.7, hours saved to WBS item C.5.8, etc.), by labor category (e.g., reduction of 4,000 hours for Claims Adjudicator I), and by SLIN.

The Government does not consider an Offeror’s explanation/quantification of the value of a proposed innovation (or an explanation of avoided cost) to represent cost/pricing data.

Clarification 3:

CMS would like to clarify that all Implementation cutover dates are correct as listed in the RFP document released as part of Amendment 000003.