Updated January 11, 2024
Update: The latest word out of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is that the RFP related to the recompete of this Center for Clinical Standards and Quality requirement has been pushed back to August of 2024. The RFP, which is expected to be released as a small business set-aside action on the new ACME BPA, had been identified as coming out as early as this month.
It is unclear if the reason for the delay in the RFP release is directly related to the barrage of recent protests filed on the $1B CMS ACME IDIQ, but that won’t stop the announced Prime contract awardees, and their key sub partners, from continuing to gear up to bid on this 5-year ISFC requirement.
More details will be shared as they are made available.
Background
Flexion is known incumbent on this contract which was last competed and awarded in late FY 2020 as a small business set-aside task order on the ADELE-QRI BPA, with an initial total contract value of $37M over a 4 ½ year period of performance. Contract details and spend to date can be found here (75FCMC20F0001).
This case study published on the Flexion website details the challenge, solution, and results related to an awarded task order to provide a Foundational Components team that would “be responsible for the overall quality, security, reliability, delivery, and efficiency of the QPP platform. This team of DevSecOps and site reliability engineers provides technical decision-making recommendations, develops common components, advocates for cross-product technical continuity, and serves as embedded liaisons (ELs) for several different QPP application development teams.”
Key Points of Contact (current or past)
- Sabrina Thompson – Contract Specialist, CMS – sabrina.thompson1@cms.hhs.gov
- Ricky Robins – Requiring Office/Program Office POC, CMS – 667-290-8818
- Joseph Fears, Contracts, CMS
- Michael Wood, Contracts, CMS
- Mark Plaugher, Acting Director, Information Systems Group, CMS CCSQ
- Mindy Riley, Acting Deputy Director, Information Systems Group, CMS CCSQ
- Tom Willis, Principal Delivery Manager – Product Manager – Foundational Components, Flexion
- Aaron Powell, Partner – Chief Strategy Officer, Flexion Inc.
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Firms drawing the most attention:
Below is a list of more than three dozen large and small companies we have noted as drawing the most views by Government and industry leaders on the OrangeSlices AI consultant directory over the 2nd half of 2023 and that bring direct past performance and/or related relationships in support of CMS.
- Sparksoft **
- RELI Group **
- Skyward IT Solutions **
- Softrams **
- Ventech Solutions **
- Index Analytics **
- Ad Hoc **
- C-HIT
- eSimplicity **
- Next Phase
- CVP **
- Nava **
- Tantus Tech
- Maximus **
- Nimbus Consulting
- ICF **
- Think Systems
- Radiant Infotech
- Global Alliant **
- ERP International **
- Unissant **
- Signature Consulting Group (SCG)
- Truss
- Sprezzatura Management Consulting
- Coforma **
- SoftDev **
- Akira Technologies
- Williams Consulting **
- iAdeptive
- International Consulting Associates (ICA)
- DAS Federal **
- IT Concepts **
- Sky Solutions **
- J29 **
- VITG
- Sierra7 **
- LMI
- Mathematica
- AIR
- Fu Associates
- CGI Federal
- Mettle Solutions
- For People **
- Abt Associates
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We cannot and will not speculate here as to the reasons for the increased interest, but whether it is a company evaluating them as a potential partner; a federal acquisition leader doing their due diligence; or a consultant weighing their next job move, this group of companies has been receiving increased interest.
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