A.09.01_Presolicitation_Questions_-_Government_Responses_041717.pdf

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100 52.212-2

According to page 100, the resulted awarded contracts will be a Regional IDIQ, Single Award Task Order contracts. So assume that means no Multiple award IDIQ contracts, so how will you add the RHC-

Atlantic at a later date (assuming it will be a SATOC also)?

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94 52.216-1

Base on the evaluation criteria of LPTA and awards per CLIN (3 RHCs), isn't possible for there to be any where from one to three awarded bidders? Can you explain the statement of page 94 that there will be

"two" IDIQ contracts awarded if the above is true?

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Can a bidder submit a proposal/price for a particular CLIN/RHC or must you bid on all RHCs/CLINs?

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44 1.2.3 Is performance at an individual's home considered "contractor facilities'? Will coding from an employee's home to be allowed or must they be in a contractor facility?

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64 4.3.3.1

Will you consider allowing numerous years (more than 5) managing DoD coding contracts/programs to be substituted for the specific certifications required for the contract manager in the PWS, if the contract manager has a bachelor's degree in another field and many more years experience managing coding programs in DoD (beyond the minimum of 2)?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 80-83 Attachment 2-5

The totals in the tables for each year for each Coding category (OP, APV, IPSR, & ED) seem to be incorrect. Can you verify that either the MTF numbers are correct and the totals are wrong or correct the tables so all numbers are accurate?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 103 C.1.a)

Can you please clarify what is meant by "Periods of creditable performance may have been incurred at more than one site for at least 12 consecutive months at each and cannot be gained at more than two sites concurrently"?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 65 4.3.4.2 A 95% accuracy rate is standard within the Industry and other Federal Agencies including CMS and the

OIG. Will the government consider changing the accuracy rate requirement to 95%?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 65 4.4.2.2 Our Corporate computer systems and Virtual Desktop Interface utilizes Microsoft Office 365. Could this be used in lieu of the Microsoft Office 2010 Standard?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 65 4.4.2.5 Our Corporate computer systems and Virtual Desktop Interface utilizes Kaspersky Enterprise Endpoint

Security . Could this be used in lieu of the McAfee Anti-Virus requirement?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 65 4.4.2.1

Our Corporate computer systems and Virtual Desktop Interface utilizes a mixture of Windows 7 and

Window 10 Professional environments. Could this be used in lieu of the Windows 8 Professional requirement?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 67 5.2.7 Turn around time within the Industry and other Federal agencies is 7 days for Outpatient encounters. Will the Government consider changing the turn around time to 7 days?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 1.9

ISO 9000 or equivalent, what is the government considering as equivalent to ISO 9000? In commercial practice there isn't an equivalency, and if the government rating a company who claims to be ISO 9000 equivalent equally to an ISO 9000 certified company, than the government is marginalizing the commercial standard.

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 Volume: with the roll out of the new EHR, has the number been adjusted to accommodate the potential redundancy for the legacy and new EHRs?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 101 Factor 1 Price: The resulting awards will be Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Single Award

Task Order Contracts (SATOCs). Can government state the number of Basis IDIQ contract awardees?

Draft_Solicitation_W81K04-17-R-0001 101

Factor 1 Price: The resulting awards will be Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Single Award

Task Order Contracts (SATOCs). Price reasonableness will be utilized in the evaluation of the IDIQ effort.

Can the government explain whether the IDIQ unit price will be the ultimate price of orders by the activities or, that is considered ceiling price for later competition among Basis IDIQ contract awardees?