Accountable Care Organization Medicare Shared Savings Program (ACO MSSP)

Tender description

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL or SOLICITATION AND DOES NOT COMMIT CMS TO AWARD A CONTRACT NOW OR IN THE FUTURE Introduction: This Sources Sought Notice (SSN) is being issued to obtain capability statements from Small Businesses (SB)s that are capable, available and qualified to support Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and specifically both the Center for Medicare (CM), Performance-based payment Policy Group (PPPG) and Office of Financial Management (OFM), Financial Services Group (FSG.) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hereby conducting market research to determine the availability and capability of potential small businesses (e.g., 8(a), service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, veteran-owned small business and woman-owned small business) that can provide the services identified in the attached Accountable Care Organization Medicare Shared Savings Program Financial Services (ACO MSSP) draft Statement of Work (SOW), see Attachment 1. The purpose of this contract is to have a Contractor issue payments to Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The Contractor will perform financial services primarily to issue Electronic Funds Transfers to the ACOs, with additional support activities including validating payees, transaction monitoring and reconciliations and reporting. Contractors must be free of conflicts of interest or be able to prepare an Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) mitigation plan to address any actual, potential, or apparent organizational conflicts of interest that could arise. Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database located at https://www.sam.gov/ prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract resulting from this Notice. Contractors may obtain information on SAM registration by visiting: https://www.acquisition.gov. This

Eligibility criteria

The full eligibility and assessment pack is released with the tender documents.