SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- Community Care Network, Region 4
- Notice Date
- 3/21/2018
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 524114
— Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Acquisition Management Services, 7700 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 18-233-SOL-00266
- Point of Contact
- Tory Estabrook, Phone: 301-492-4729
- E-Mail Address
-
Tory.Estabrook@psc.hhs.gov
(Tory.Estabrook@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, through the Program Support Center, intends to re-solicit competition and make a single award for Community Care Network, Region 4. Offerors are encouraged to submit their best proposals in response to the Region 4 CCN solicitation which will be posted soon. The scope of the solicitation has changed since the initial release of Solicitation Number: VA79116R0086. Notable Changes to the Solicitation include: • Removal of Alaska, Northern Marianas Islands, Guam and American Samoa from the geographical composition. • Removed Optional Tasks for Appointment Scheduling and Comprehensive Care Coordination; Case Management; and Disease Management. • Removed Dialysis, Tai Chi, and Native American Healing from covered services list. • Streamlined the Self Service Website requirements to be more aligned to industry practices. • Changes to Accreditation terms and conditions - Removed language regarding documentation to be provided for the optional tasks of Comprehensive Case Management and Comprehensive Disease Management Program Administration. • Changes to Appointment Availability Times terms and Conditions - Added new Appointment Availability standards of within 60-days for specialty care for network adequacy. Excluded telehealth, transplant, non-urgent neurosurgery, and cardiothoracic surgery from drive time standard requirements. • Changes to Referral and Prior Authorization terms and conditions - Removed some requirements for the contractor to validate and maintain referral and prior authorization. VA will provide an approved Referral for all non-urgent\emergent care rendered under CCN. • Changes to Medical Documentation terms and conditions - While medical documentation is still requested, requirements for the contractor to track, report on, and follow up with medical submission timeliness have been removed. • Changes to Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Monitoring terms and conditions - Revised the Clinical Quality requirements to enhance Patient Safety quality elements. • Combined "Transition In" requirements into the "Implementation Strategy" section. The contemplated contract type is a single award firm-fixed-price Indefinite-Quantity contract using FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Services in conjunction with the policies and procedures for solicitation, evaluation and award prescribed in Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. The contemplated aggregate period of performance is a 12-month base period and seven 12-month option periods for renewal. The solicitation will be made available on/or about May 3, 2018 and will be distributed solely through the Federal Business Opportunities website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. Hard copies of the solicitation will not be available. The site provides downloading instructions. All future information regarding this acquisition, including solicitation amendments, will also be distributed solely through this site. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this site to ensure they have the most current information about this acquisition. Please note all contractors doing business with the Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. The anticipated date for receipt of proposals is July 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. The government does NOT invite offerors to submit proposals in response to this pre-solicitation notice. NO awards are anticipated to be made in response to this pre-solicitation notice. In lieu of e-mails or phone calls regarding this pre-solicitation notice please click the "Add Me To Interested Vendors" link below to be notified when information is available.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/PSC/DAM/18-233-SOL-00266/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: CCN Region 4 (TX, NM, AZ, CA, NV, UT, CO, WY, ID, OR, WA, MT, HI), United States
- Record
- SN04862344-W 20180323/180321231238-97627658296fb9fb2b9c2c030851ac34 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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