SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- INTENT TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON A SOLE SOURCE BASIS
- Notice Date
- 7/1/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541219
— Other Accounting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-04I058140
- Response Due
- 8/16/2004
- Archive Date
- 8/31/2004
- Point of Contact
- Rosanna Browning, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-443-6931, Fax 301-443-2761, - Christopher Brennan, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-443-0403, Fax 301-443-8488,
- E-Mail Address
-
rbrowning@psc.gov, cbrennan@psc.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, intends to award a sole source, cost-reimbursement contract to the Eighteen Nineteen Group, Inc. of Palm Desert, CA. Eighteen Nineteen Group will assist the Indian Health Service (IHS) by providing support to develop and deliver Medicare cost reports, cost analyses, including cost report variances/explanations, determine the cost of delivering health care and developing recommendations on cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid to support rate setting, Disproportionate Share (DSH) reimbursement review, and Critical Access Hospital analysis. Specifically, the following six tasks will be performed: (1) MEDICARE METHOD E (MODIFIED) COST REPORT PREPARTATION which is critical to the IHS to identify the total cost of each of its 47 hospitals and to comply with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Medicare Fiscal Intermediary (FI) requirements; (2) INDENTIFY COSTS of ten (10) Home Offices and two (2) Headquarter Offices as part of step-down cost allocation to hospitals; (3) MEDICARE STANDARD COST REPORT PREPARATION DEVELOPED AT A SELECTED SITE which will require a comparison of the Medicare standard cost reports requirements (system, staffing, charge structure data, etc) with the modified method E cost report currently being developed for IHS to determine the benefits (if any) of developing the infrastructure to complete Medicare standard cost reports; (4) DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE (DSH) REIMBURSEMENT REVIEW of several IHS facilities that do not get the Medicare add-on payment for inpatient services to determine if they are eligible so that IHS may seek reimbursement and to develop a model and training package to ensure that the annual report (required by the Medicare Fiscal Intermediaries to establish a basis for the DSH payment) can be completed by each of the 47 hospitals accurately and in the most efficient manner possible; (5) CLINICAL WORKLOAD COMPILATION, ANALYSIS, AND MEDICARE AND MEDICAID COST ESTIMATING gathered on workload information from several National IHS data sources and from each of the hospitals as the Medicare cost reports are being completed to identify key information on Medicaid billable workload. After the cost reports have been completed, the contractor summarizes certain cost report data elements and integrates key IHS workload data to form a basis to evaluate and analyze cost of delivering health care in IHS facilities and determine the cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid activities; and (6) CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL (CAH) ANALYSIS REPORTS AND TRAINING for the seven (7) current IHS CAHs and the thirteen (13) IHS hospitals that may convert to CAHs during fiscal years 2004 and 2005 to include reports and analysis of the data with revenue projections, additional work to address audits by the Fiscal Intermediary, and training and assistance to potential sites to aid in conversion to CAH. The Government knows of only one source, Eighteen Nineteen Group, who is adequately familiar with and has the unique knowledge of the special IHS requirements identified by the CMS. Specifically Eighteen Nineteen Group possesses the following unique qualifications necessary to provide the required services: (1) Knowledge of and familiarity with the Method E cost report variation/adjustments negotiated in the past six years with the CMS; (2) familiarity with staff responsible for the IHS administrative and clinical operations/information systems at over 47 hospitals, 10 Home Offices, 1 Tribal Consortium, and IHS Headquarters; (3) knowledge of IHS accounting and reimbursement systems/payment methods; (5) knowledge of IHS management reports required to determine cost and enable IHS to set rates; (6) knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of each level of the IHS and CMS and the protocol for collecting all necessary data; (7) knowledge of the unique and non-standardized IHS systems (IHS financial, property and equipment management, clinical and information systems); (8) knowledge of the unique management workload reports necessary to determine unit outpatient and inpatient costs to base rates; (9) knowledge of IHS variations in recording allowable and unallowable accounting data; and (10) knowledge of the IHS resource patient management system (RPMS). The contract shall have a 12-month base period with four, 12-month option periods. Interested parties who feel that they are capable of fulfilling this requirement may identify their interest by providing clear and comprehensive information supporting their claim, inclusive of references listing contact person(s) and phone number(s). This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all information received within 45 days of the publication of this notice will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement is solely within its discretion. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. If no responses are received in 45 days, the Government shall negotiate and award a contract to Eighteen Nineteen Group, Inc. See numbered note 22.
- Record
- SN00613727-W 20040703/040701211852 (fbodaily.com)
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