Description
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) is seeking a contractor to provide computing and data analysis services using the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) and other data. The contractor will be responsible for securing, cleaning, maintaining, and analyzing administrative data to support MACPAC's statutory obligations. The contract will be an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a base period of five years and up to five one-year option periods. The contractor will provide data management services, including data acquisition, transfer, storage, and management, as well as data analysis services, including statistical analysis and data interpretation. Key responsibilities include:
• Securing and maintaining administrative data in compliance with federal security standards and practices
• Providing a sufficient pool of statistical programmers to perform necessary work, including surge capacity during peak periods
• Developing and implementing a system for storing and cataloguing data files and supporting documentation
• Creating analytic files using statistical applications software and programming languages
• Providing data interpretation and policy analysis services
• Documenting all data runs and providing detailed methodology and annotated programming code
The contractor will work closely with MACPAC staff to ensure high-quality, timely, and accurate work, and will be responsible for managing the contract to minimize costs to MACPAC.
Some of the key datasets that will be used in this contract include:
• Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS)
• Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX)
• T-MSIS
• T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF)
• Form CMS-64, CMS-21, and CMS-37 expenditure data
• CHIP Statistical Enrollment Data System (SEDS)
• Medicaid Disproportionate share hospital (DSH) audit data
• Medicaid state drug utilization and drug product data
• National plan and provider enumeration system (NPPES)
• Social Security Administration’s Death Master File (DMF)
• First DataBank
• Symphony Health Integrated Dataverse
The contractor will be expected to have experience working with these datasets and to have a strong understanding of MACPAC's mandate and scope of services.