SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Physician Data Center
- Notice Date
- 4/6/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Suite 400, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- OIG173127
- Archive Date
- 4/22/2016
- Point of Contact
- Robert V. Bowman, Phone: 3014430705
- E-Mail Address
-
robert.bowman@psc.hhs.gov
(robert.bowman@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Pursuant to the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), the Contracting Officer may solicit from one source if the Contracting Officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source is reasonably available. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Program Support Center (PSC), Acquisition Management Services (AMS), on behalf of the DHHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Office of Investigations (OI) intends to sole source to: Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) 400 Fuller Wiser Road Suite 300 Euless, TX 76039 The Office of Investigations (OI) is a federal law enforcement agency with statutory law enforcement authority. Within OI, the Exclusions Branch is responsible for investigating, imposing, and reporting exclusion actions taken under Section 1128 of the Social Security Act. The Exclusions Branch accomplishes its mission through receiving referral for consideration from a number of sources, including other Federal, State or local law enforcement; State professional licensing boards; and State Medicaid agencies. In connection with their mission, the Exclusions Branch requires a wide variety of data sources in order to complete their mission. The HHS Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations (HHS/OIG/OI) requires access to a comprehensive reporting entity that offers medical licensing, credentialing and sanction history as an investigative resource for OI investigative analysts conducting exclusions investigations. The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Physician Data Center offers a central repository for disciplinary sanctions, licensure information and certification data by representing seventy state medical and osteopathic regulatory boards across the United States and provides comprehensive reports on that data. FSMB is a NCQA Certified Credentials Organization that provides the highest level of reporting of all NCQA certified entity. FSMB offers this comprehensive reporting with the appropriate NCQA certification that would uniquely assist investigative analysts in the Exclusions Branch within OI to more efficiently investigate exclusions actions under Section 1128. FSMB provides comprehensive data regarding disciplinary alerts for sanctioned physicians, comprehensive background information, and active and historic license information from seventy state medical and osteopathic boards across the United States our choices are limited down to solely this vendor. FSMB would provide OI the comprehensive data and reporting tools at the appropriate level with the appropriate credentials that are required in order to complete exclusions investigations. This is not a solicitation for competitive proposal. No solicitation document is available. All responsible sources that have determined that they can provide the same services may submit product information and a capabilities statement addressing their specific abilities regarding this requirement. The email subject line must reference OIG173127. All responses are due by April 7, 2016, 3:30PM Eastern Time and can be sent to Robert Bowman at Robert.Bowman@psc.hhs.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract base upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government.
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- Record
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