FPB agile team support for MES

The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) is conducting a Fixed Price Bid (FPB) solicitation for Agile Team Support services related to the Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) development within Richland County. The procurement seeks to contract with one or more vendors to provide comprehensive agile development teams consisting of specialized roles including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Lead Developers, Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts/Testers, Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers, and Business Analysts/Technical Writers. SCDHHS anticipates requiring up to eighteen agile teams to support the Delivery of Automated Systems for Healthcare (DASH) initiative. Mandatory minimum qualifications require vendors to either employ at least 500 full-time employees in software development roles or demonstrate one year of experience provisioning agile teams to a government healthcare entity. The solicitation was originally posted on March 16, 2023, with a non-mandatory pre-bid conference held on February 13, 2023, and questions due by February 24, 2023. Proposal submissions were due March 27, 2023, at 11:00 AM EST, with award notifications originally scheduled for April 3, 2023 (later extended to April 7, 2023).

The contract has no specific set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises, and incumbent contractors from the previous solicitation (5400019423) are eligible to resubmit. The initial contract term is three years, beginning April 18, 2023, with two optional one-year renewal periods, creating a potential maximum five-year contract duration. Hourly rates are fixed and range from $120 for Business Analysts/Technical Writers to $220 for Lead Solutions Architects, with annual adjustments based on the Employment Cost Index (ECI). Contractor liability is capped at $3,000,000, with required insurance coverage including $1,000,000 per occurrence for general liability and information security/privacy coverage. Team members must be 100 percent dedicated, working forty hours per week from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, at the contractor's designated location. While no specific total contract value is explicitly stated, the comprehensive team support and potential for up to eighteen agile teams suggest a significant potential contract value for the selected vendor(s).