10 picked for $500M CMS agile delivery effort
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By
Ross Wilkers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services taps 10 companies for a $500 million blanket purchase agreement to use agile technology delivery to improve the quality of care.
Ten companies have won places on a five-year, $500 million blanket purchase agreement for broad IT and business process services to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
CMS is using the Data Analytics Supporting Healthcare pact, also known as DASH, to acquire support for its initiatives aimed at bolstering quality of care through improved health outcomes and beneficiary experiences of care.
Fifteen companies bid on the BPA and these 10 won:
- Analytica LLC
- Cormac Corp.
- Esimplicity
- Index Analytics LLC
- Innosoft
- Next Phase Solutions and Services LLC
- Reli Group
- Semanticbits
- Sparksoft
- Trillion ERP VentureTech LLC
CMS awarded the BPA on Monday through the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule program for acquiring predominantly commercial products and services, according to Federal Procurement Spending Data information.
A Sparksoft media release also from Monday describes the pact as centered around helping CMS adopt more agile delivery services in areas such as IT management and governance, business process analysis, human-centered design, solution architecture and design, application development and configuration, analytics and reporting, and system integration.