Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Of Georgia Inc.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Of Georgia Inc., doing business as Chimes CVM, operates as a tax-exempt non-profit organization and sub-recipient on federal grant programs focused on COVID-19 emergency response and clinical research, with all eleven recent awards issued as sub-awards rather than prime contracts or grants. The vendor has no prime federal contract vehicle seats and has not received direct prime grant awards; instead, it participates in federal work exclusively through sub-award arrangements with prime grantees.

Chimes CVM's federal footprint is concentrated in FEMA disaster-relief grants administered through Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency (GEMHSA) as the prime grantee. Ten of eleven awards — representing the full scope of the vendor's dollar volume — flowed through FEMA as the ultimate federal funding source. The work performed under these GEMHSA sub-awards spans COVID-19 emergency protective services, medical testing supplies procurement, contract labor for emergency response, and management cost reimbursement, with performance periods running from March 2020 through December 2022 and into 2023. A single outlier award comes through the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging, where Chimes CVM provides clinical coordinating center support and site-level research administration for a clinical trial led by Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Under that sub-award, the vendor supplies administrative oversight, IRB coordination, regulatory reporting, staff protocol training, data quality assurance, and site-level study management at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), with clinical and executive leadership contributions from KPNC physicians and researchers including Dr. David Ambrosy, Dr. Jesse K. Fitzpatrick, and Dr. Alan S. Go.

Combined dollars obligated across all eleven sub-awards total $12.3 million. Activity spiked in 2023 with four awards, dropped to one in 2024, and rebounded to six in 2025, with the most recent awards dated December 2025. The vendor's customer concentration is extreme — FEMA disaster-relief grants (funneled through GEMHSA) account for 100% of the award count and the vast majority of obligated dollars. As a sub-recipient without prime vehicle seats, Chimes CVM does not hold seats on GWACs, IDIQs, or agency-wide BPAs and therefore cannot bid independently on federal task orders or bring contract vehicles to teaming arrangements.