CMS launches $3.5B data services recompete
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Ross Wilkers
A final solicitation is now live for this multiple-award contract focused on helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gain insights into federal health care programs.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now ready for industry to start working on and turning in proposals for a five-year, $3.5 billion contract vehicle covering data-related and research services.
Iteration number three of the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design and Analysis contract continues CMS’ work with industry to develop new models, learning networks, surveys and other data collection techniques in support of federal health care programs.
Bids for RMADA 3 are due by 10 a.m. Eastern time on March 27 with an intended start date of Aug. 1, CMS said in a Wednesday notice to release the final solicitation.
CMS does not appear to have a cap on the number of awards it plans to make. The agency instead is saying that figure “will depend upon the quantity and quality of proposals received, sufficient to provide for the fair opportunity of consideration for individual awards.”
The agency uses RMADA as an umbrella contract for analytic and technical services to collect data on programs created as part of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program and those from private payer sources.
RMADA 2 went to 17 companies in 2019 at a $5 billion ceiling over six years. That contract is scheduled to sunset on Sept. 12 and CMS has obligated 18% of that ceiling to-date, or $930.7 million, according to Deltek data.
Mathemetica has taken the largest share of those obligations at $310.8 million. National Opinion Research Center is second at $150.5 million, Deloitte is third at $120.5 million, UnitedHealth Group is fourth at $87.2 million and RTI International is fifth at $50.3 million.