CMS databases to support health services research

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded one Cost Plus Fixed-Fee (CPFF) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to assist the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in distributing data to the research community and the general public. This IDIQ will encompass a variety of data activities including database development, database management, data dissemination and data support. The purpose of this contract is to combine the Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW) and the Research Data Distribution Center (RDDC) contracts. The CCW houses identifiable data that is linked, at the individual patient level, for all Medicare claims, eligibility data, nursing home and home health assessments, and CMS beneficiary survey data. CMS created the RDDC to help CMS disseminate data in a more efficient and timely manner. Establishing the RDDC has enabled CMS to satisfy research requests in a timely and efficient manner and eliminate the burden on the CMS data center. The CCW database fulfills research requests using identifiable data while the RDDC database fulfills requests for Limited Data Sets (LDS), which are partially de-identified data, and Public Use Files (PUF). The awardee will use the infrastructure to combine the current CCW and RDDC computer hardware, database design, and data extraction tools into one database. The period of performance is five (5) years.