RFI - Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- HHS-CMS-RFI-2026-270043
- Agency
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541720 Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Place of performance
- Maryland 21244, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking industry information to support the future recompete of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), a continuous longitudinal survey that has collected comprehensive healthcare data from Medicare beneficiaries since 1991. This Request for Information is not a binding solicitation but rather seeks industry knowledge and best practices for project planning purposes related to modernizing and operating the MCBS in a hybrid cloud environment. Key focus areas include cloud-supported survey application alternatives, business operations and case-management tools, data capture methods, rapid development processes, concurrent administration capabilities, metadata management, contracting mechanisms, responsible AI applications, and migration strategies. Responses are due by 12:00 PM EST on March 27, 2026, and should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents not exceeding 10 pages to Jessica Foster and Jennifer Davis at CMS. Responses must use Times New Roman or Aptos 12-point font with 1-inch margins and address industry recommendations across the ten specified technical and operational areas.
There is no set-aside designation applied to this procurement opportunity. The NAICS code 541720 (Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities) and PSC code AN42 (Health R&D Services; Health Care – Other; Applied Research) indicate the nature of services contemplated. CMS is undertaking significant modernization initiatives, including a 2026 sampling redesign to enable state-level estimation with full implementation expected by Fall 2029 across four rotating panels, along with migration from on-premise systems to the CMS hybrid cloud environment spanning Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services. The RFI does not specify a budget range or award value at this pre-solicitation stage, as it is designed to gather industry input for future planning rather than to solicit specific proposals. No incumbent contractor or current award value information is provided in the notice.
Notice text
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking information from industry to support the future recompete of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) requirement. CMS is anticipating to expand its hybrid cloud portfolio with the planned establishment of additional FedRAMP High (CMS ATO) environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and commercial Microsoft Azure, expected to become operational in Spring/Summer 2026. In parallel, CMS intends to elevate its commercial AWS environments to ATO High, enabling a long-term transition away from reliance on AWS GovCloud and Azure Government where appropriate.
Through this RFI, CMS seeks industry input on solutions and services that can operate, modernize, and optimize CMS’s hybrid cloud hosting environment, enabling secure, scalable, and cost-effective delivery of CMS mission systems while supporting emerging technologies and evolving federal cloud strategies.
Please see the attached RFI for additional details and submission requirements.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| MCBS RFI FY2026 - Final.pdf | ||
| MCBS RFI FY2026 Final.pdf |
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