HCCI Data Access

INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to negotiate and award a sole source purchase order to Health Care Cost Institute, 1100 G Street NW, Suite 600, Washington DC, for a project entitled "access to the HCCI database for testing an approved hypothesis " which is for a one year license subscription for data access to HCCI and two additional Option Years. The sole source award will be made under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 235 ( C ) ( 1 ) as implemented by FAR6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies and Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements. A justification and approval is currently being processed for this requirement. This requirement is intended as a sole source procurement because the SNL software license will be used to help CMS track the Marketplace premium stabilization programs, the financial stability of Marketplace, enrollment trends in Medicaid and the commercial market, and financial trends in Medicaid and Medicare Advantage.

CMS REQUIREMENTS: The Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA) benefits from this procurement because SNL Financial is the only source for this aggregated data in a useful format. Market research indicated that Bloomberg does not provide this data. All the data isn't publicly available. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners offers a proprietary database that requires a fee to access the financial statements of private health insurers. However, the NAIC database is not aggregated in a useful format and would require extremely labor intensive and time consuming work to produce the aggregate data. SNL is the only company that provides access to the data and does the work of aggregating it into a format that is useful to CMS.

NAICS CODES: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is 541611 and the size standard is $6.0 million.

INTERESTED PARTIES: All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. In order to qualify as a potential contractor for this procurement, the organization must provide technical literature describing their capability to effectively satisfy this requirement, as well as terms and conditions and a complete price quote within 15 days of this notice, to the following electronic mail address: phillip.harrell@cms.hhs.gov.

DISCLAIMER: This notice is not a Request for Proposals or a Solicitation, nor does it restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach. This notice is not a commitment from the Government. The Government will not reimburse any bid or proposal costs as a result of this notice. No solicitation exists and requests for a copy of the solicitation will be disregarded. However, any future solicitation that will be open to competition will be subsequently issued on FedBizOpps in order to permit firms to respond.

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