SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- INDEPENDENT TESTING CONTRACT (ITC)
- Notice Date
- 10/24/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Acquisition and Grants Group, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Central Building, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
- ZIP Code
- 21244-1850
- Solicitation Number
- RFP-CMS-03-0001
- Archive Date
- 1/21/2003
- Point of Contact
- Sandy Williamson, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-5143, Fax 410-786-9643, - Linda Hook, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-8371, Fax 410-786-9922,
- E-Mail Address
-
SWilliamson@cms.hhs.gov, LHook@cms.hhs.gov
- Description
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a competition resulting in an award of an Independent Testing Contract [ITC] to perform Quarterly Release Test Management (QRTM) and regression testing on the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) and the Common Working File (CWF). Currently Medicare fiscal intermediaries (FIs) use the FISS as the primary component of Medicare bill processing function under Medicare Part A. FISS Part A Medicare claims processing includes inpatient hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health, hospice care and other areas of institutional claims processing. The purpose of the overall effort is to significantly improve the quality of standard systems software releases. The effort requires various levels of traceability and methodical development and management of testing items such as standard systems business requirements, testing requirements, testing strategies, regression test cases, quarterly release test cases, test results and test metrics. The scope of this testing effort includes the FISS and CWF systems that perform FI fee-for-service claims processing and the integrated fee-for-service claims processing software components that are integrated with the FISS systems. These components include but are not limited to the various Pricers, Outpatient Code Editor (OCE), Medicare Code Editor (MCE), Grouper, and the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System [HIGLAS] payment component modules. All efforts shall be performed in accordance with CMS requirements and shall meet the objectives of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of QRTM and RT operations. The regression testing program includes three areas of work: 1) business rules identification, 2) test-set development and maintenance, and 3) test preparations, executions, results analysis and reporting. The contractor shall continue to maintain the existing regression testing schedules, products and processes to fully implement the comprehensive regression test program. The contractor shall work with the incumbent contractor to assure a transition period through September 30, 2003 to ensure full continuity of the regression-testing program. The Contractor shall maintain a detailed schedule for all regression testing related tasks in Microsoft Project. The schedule shall include all activities and tasks from business rules related tasks to execution results reporting. To improve the software quality of the systems that support FI claims processing (e.g. FISS, CWF, Pricers, OCE, MCE, Grouper), CMS has implemented the QRTM initiative. The QRTM for the FI claims processing initiative consists of testing current quarterly release CRs through the integrated FISS and CWF Beta test sites'effort to emulate the production claim-processing environment. The Beta test sites that support FI claims processing will execute integrated data exchanges simulating FI claims processing test cycles using the CMS supplied test-set and submit the results to CMS and the testing contractor. The testing contractor shall assimilate the test results, develop test metrics, verify requirements traceability, and create metrics, test summary and risk assessment reports. The Contractor will also require proficiency in the COTS products that are currently being used to support the CMS testing initiatives. These COTS products include: The Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS), WinRunner, COMPAREX, TestDirector, and FileAid. These initiatives also require knowledge of COBOL as required to map copybooks to VSAM files to successfully perform file comparisons and data manipulations; proficiency in JCL to run jobs such as file comparisons and data selections; and proficiency in mainframe utilities such as TSO/ISPF and INFOMAN. These initiatives require extensive, broad-based Medicare business and technical knowledge and skills. CMS intends to award a full and open competitive Cost-Plus-Award-Fee contract for a one-year base, with four one-year option periods. SETA Inc. is the incumbent contractor. The anticipated release of the RFP is on or about November 22, 2002 and will be available on FedBizOpps. If you register with FedBizOpps, you will receive any subsequent RFP information.
- Record
- SN00193197-W 20021026/021024213255 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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