Measure and Instrument Development and Support (MIDS)

Amendment 0005 is to update Section M.3.D of the Solicitation.

The Amendment 0004 is to provide clarifying answers to questions. 

The Amendment 0003 is to provide clarifying answers to questions, and to update the signature page on Attachment J.5, entitled "Small Business Subcontracting Plan."

This Amendment 0002 is to provide answers to additional questions and to update the solicitation document with this addition of Section G.19 entitled "Corrective Action Plan" (CAP), additional a Note to Section H.2 entitled "Clause Incorporated by Reference" and an additional Note to Section K.17 entitled "Notice of Earned Value Management System - Postaward Integrated Baseline Review" FAR 52.234-3 (NOV 2016).

This Amendment 0001 is provide answers to questions and to update documents as appropriate for the "Measure and Instrument Development and Support" (MIDS).

The purpose of this posting is to solicit responses for the "Measure and Instrument Development and Support" (MIDS) effort. The MIDS supports the development and use of clinical quality measures which remains a critical healthcare priority and the tool of choice for improving quality of care at the national, community and facility levels. The MIDS Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract provides a vehicle to objectively evaluate and promote quality of care within the Federal quality reporting programs by aligning with the Measures Management System (MMS) Blueprint, a comprehensive and structured process for developing and maintaining evidence-based clinical quality measures.

The nature of highly technical work requires the expertise and services of qualified personnel, facilities, equipment, materials, and supplies not otherwise provided by the government, as needed to perform quality measurement program support activities. Measures program support, measures development, revision, and/or maintenance of assessment instrument data items, data collection vehicles, and quality measures implementation (and their corresponding manuals, public outreach and coordination of data elements and measures with other MIDS contractors) comprise the fundamental activities under the IDIQ contract.

The requirements under the Measure and Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) are critical in support to develop outcome, process, structural, cost, and composite quality measures suitable for endorsement by a consensus endorsement entity and reflective of quality care across populations and settings, including, but are not limited to, psychiatric hospitals, ambulatory care services, physician providers, accountable care organizations, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice programs, long-term care hospitals, in-patient rehabilitation facilities, PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, acute care hospitals, and ambulatory surgical centers. Its purpose is also to support the collection of data that could be used to trend quality related to patient care for those patients that receive services across settings, as well as other uses related to cross-setting analysis.

The purpose of this posting to synopsize the "Measure and Instrument Development and Support" (MIDS) effort. The MIDS supports the development and use of clinical quality measures which remains a critical healthcare priority and the tool of choice for improving quality of care at the national, community and facility levels. The MIDS Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract provides a vehicle to objectively evaluate and promote quality of care within the Federal quality reporting programs by aligning with the Measures Management System (MMS) Blueprint, a comprehensive and structured process for developing and maintaining evidence-based clinical quality measures.

The nature of highly technical work requires the expertise and services of qualified personnel, facilities, equipment, materials, and supplies not otherwise provided by the government, as needed to perform quality measurement program support activities. Measures program support, measures development, revision, and/or maintenance of assessment instrument data items, data collection vehicles, and quality measures implementation (and their corresponding manuals, public outreach and coordination of data elements and measures with other MIDS contractors) comprise the fundamental activities under the IDIQ contract.

The requirements under the Measure and Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) are critical in support to develop outcome, process, structural, cost, and composite quality measures suitable for endorsement by a consensus endorsement entity and reflective of quality care across populations and settings, including, but are not limited to, psychiatric hospitals, ambulatory care services, physician providers, accountable care organizations, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice programs, long-term care hospitals, in-patient rehabilitation facilities, PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, acute care hospitals, and ambulatory surgical centers. Its purpose is also to support the collection of data that could be used to trend quality related to patient care for those patients that receive services across settings, as well as other uses related to cross-setting analysis.