SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Medical Price Data
- Notice Date
- 6/7/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Procurement and Property Management, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 1830, Washington, District of Columbia, 20212
- ZIP Code
- 20212
- Solicitation Number
- BLS-SSN-MedicalClaims
- Archive Date
- 6/30/2012
- Point of Contact
- Michael V. DeAngelis,
- E-Mail Address
-
DeAngelis.Michael@bls.gov
(DeAngelis.Michael@bls.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought Notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations and in no way obligates the Government to award a contract. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information, for planning purposes, regarding: (1) the availability and capability of potential sources that can provide the required information described below and (2) the size classification of the available and potential sources relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. The NAICS code for this planned acquisition is 541519 - Other Computer Related Services. Your response to the information requested will assist the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in planning the appropriate acquisition strategy. Background: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has an ongoing need for detailed medical price data in order to analyze, evaluate and improve the medical care components of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI). BLS seeks a contractor that can provide health insurance claims data where each record represents a claim. When delivered, the data must have been processed by a "grouper" program, which assembles claim records into episodes of care and categorizes episodes into homogenous groups of diseases. BLS plans to use the contractor's data to check the accuracy of the CPI/PPI prices, and to analyze trends in the average quantity and prices of the CPTs and National Drug Codes (NDCs) used to treat an episode of care. The contract requires claims data for the calendar years 2002 to 2009. All types of insurance (Private, Medicare, and Medicare Supplemental) are necessary. However, we will consider contractors that have only private insurance claims or only Medicare Parts A, B, and C (Medicare Advantage). Data must be grouped into episodes by an episode grouper where each episode is assigned a disease classification. All medical goods and services should be covered. Each claim record must contain the type of service, the total adjudicated reimbursement, the patient out of pocket payment, ICD-9(10) code, and CPT codes for physician claims and NDCs for pharmaceutical claims. For hospitals, the revenue center should be included as well as the Diagnostic Related Group. Each record should also contain a unique patient ID and provider ID. Summary of Requirements: • A wide variety of health plans with claims data. • The data shall be accessible through the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) version 9 or higher. • Individual claims data are required. • Each record shall be assigned a unique ID. • It is desirable that there is a subgroup of patients who are in the claims data base from the 2002 calendar year to the 2009 calendar year so that BLS can create a longitudinal analysis. Response Information: In Order for BLS to asses a firm's capability, firms must submit a response that provides enough detail to indicate that it can provide the services that meet the requirements above. Vendor submissions of simple marketing materials or brochures, incomplete responses that do not conform to the elements of this request for information, or references to vendor websites will not be considered by BLS. With your response, please include: a. DUNS number b. Company Name c. Company Address d. Current GSA Schedules appropriate to this notice e. Type of Company (i.e. large business, small business, small disadvantaged, women owned, HUBZone, and Service Disabled) as validated via the Central Contractor Registration f. Company point of contact, phone and email address All responses must be submitted in an electronic form via e-mail to the Contracting Officer at DeAngelis.Michael@bls.gov no later than June 15, 2012 at 12:00 pm. Reponses will not be accepted after the due date. Responses must not exceed twenty (20) pages. Faxed information will not be considered. BLS will not accept phone calls regarding this notice. BLS will not return any information submitted in response to this notice. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with your submittal. Information received will be used in BLS's market research effort and for procurement planning purposes. This notice is not to be construed as a commitment by BLS. The Government reserves the right to contact, or not to contact, any party responding to this notice in order to obtain further information for market research purposes.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOL/BLS/WashingtonDC/BLS-SSN-MedicalClaims/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20212, United States
- Zip Code: 20212
- Zip Code: 20212
- Record
- SN02770012-W 20120609/120608000530-d2fb641d4403fbd4ad2c2cd94e553b0a (fbodaily.com)
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