CMS Litigation Support Services
Awarded Limited / Sole Source Justification Posted
- Solicitation number
- 260294J
- Agency
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- Contract number
- 47QSMA19D08PL-75FCMC26F0025 Federal contract award
- NAICS code
- 541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- PSC
- R799 Support- Management: Other
- Place of performance
- Arlington, Virginia 22209, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Limited Source Justification Notice on December 19, 2025, for a sole-source award of specialized litigation support services valued at $3,900,819.00 over a five-year period (December 23, 2025 through December 22, 2030). The contract was awarded to Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP to provide document management, de-duplication, and case management services leveraging the Relativity platform integrated with Deloitte's proprietary Secure Release system. The justification for the sole-source award centers on Deloitte's unique customization of Relativity to meet CMS-specific workflows, ethical requirements, and automated data transfer capabilities that cannot be replicated by other vendors without substantial cost and operational delays. The services will support multiple CMS offices including the Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Hearings, and Center for Program Integrity, with anticipated processing of document collections ranging from one million to over 200 million pages, including support for up to 100,000 Hierarchical Condition Category appeals and FOIA request handling. This specialized integration of technology and CMS's regulatory requirements makes Deloitte the only viable contractor for these highly technical and customized litigation support functions.
Notice text
This contract provides specialized litigation support services leveraging the Relativity platform (a brand-name
requirement) integrated with Deloitte’s proprietary Secure Release case management system. These services are unique to this contractor due to the customized integration of Relativity with CMS-specific workflows, ethical barriers, and automated data transfer capabilities that cannot be replicated by other vendors without significant cost and delay.
Within the Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs (OSORA), the Freedom of Information Group
(FIG) uses Relativity to de-duplicate large-scale document sets of over one million pages for the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests and to implement customized workflows with cascading review processes that batch documents by page count. The Office of the Attorney Advisor (OAA) relies on the customized case
management system to support Level III Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) appeal reviews, managing
between 20 million and 200 million PDF pages for as many as 100,000 Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) appeals, while maintaining complete separation from Levels I and II to preserve the ethical barriers required by law. The Office of Hearings (OHI) depends on the automated data transfer capabilities to move designated data elements directly to the Center for Program Integrity (CPI) for effectuation of final actions, which significantly reduces manual data entry errors and accelerates processing times. Finally, CPI utilizes Relativity to process and review massive document collections often exceeding one million pages in support of Level I RADV program rulemaking activities and related litigation support, while also receiving automated data transfers from OHI to complete final action processing.
Awarded contract 47QSMA19D08PL to unknown vendor for unknown amount on 2025-12-18.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| JA Limited Source Justification_LSS_08-26-2025.pdf |
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