Bid Opportunities

Request for Proposals: Analysis of AMI and PN Readmission Model Data Proposal

The Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC) has received funding from Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for a special project: “Medicare Quality Measurement Support Project: Mortality Implementation and Measures Development and Monitoring.” Obligations to this project include the analysis and bootstrapping of data for the project’s Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) and Pneumonia (PN) Readmission models.

To best accomplish this, CFMC is requesting proposals from organizations with relevant, verifiable experience using CMS claims and enrollment data.

For the purposes of proposing on this Special Project, the proposal must be prepared in two parts: (A) Technical Proposal and (B) Business Proposal.

Questions about this RFP should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org by 10 P.M. MDT, June 26, 2008.
Responses will be posted on this Web page by 10 A.M. MDT, June 27, 2008. Questions will be answered most efficiently if they are submitted as original emails with the subject heading “CMS Analysis of AMI and PN Readmission Model Data”.
Technical proposals should be submitted electronically by 8 A.M. MDT, June 30, 2008, to dturkmani@cfmc.org. Business proposals should be submitted electronically by 8 A.M. MDT, July 1, 2008, to bwood@cfmc.org.
A letter of intent should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org by 10 A.M. MDT, June 26, 2008.
Contract will be awarded by July 2, 2008 10:00PM MDT
All remaining notifications will be sent by July 3, 2008 10 A.M. MDT

Request for Proposal (pdf)

Questions and Answers for CMS Analysis of AMI and PN Readmission Model Data RFP (pdf)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: Support for Implementation of the Dry Run for HF Readmission Measure Proposal

The Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC) has received funding from Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for a Special Project: “Implementation of the Dry Run for the CMS 30-Day Heart Failure Readmission Measure.” Obligations to this project include the preparation of educational and informative materials related to, and participation in national presentations on, the CMS 30-day HF readmission measure for hospitals and other key stakeholders for the duration of this project. In addition, the project obligations include support to hospitals, QIOs and the public to respond to questions of a clinical and technical nature about the measure methodology and modeling, and performance of additional ad hoc analyses as requested by CMS.

To best accomplish this, CFMC is requesting proposals from organizations with relevant, verifiable experience in the development of clinical measures and specific expertise related to the 30-day HF readmission measure development and methodology.

For the purposes of proposing on this Special Project, the proposal must be prepared in two parts: (A) Technical Proposal and (B) Business Proposal. For each proposal, the Offeror shall submit all components of the proposal electronically via email, as directed below:

A letter of intent should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org by 10:00 A.M. MST, July 10, 2008.
Questions about this RFP should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org by 10:00 P.M. MST, July 10, 2008.
Responses will be posted on on this Web page by 3:00 P.M. MST, July 11, 2008. Questions will be answered most efficiently if they are submitted as original emails with the subject heading “CMS 30-Day HF Readmission Measure Dry Run”.
Technical proposals should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org and must be received no later than 8:00 A.M. MST, July 21, 2008. Business proposals should be submitted to bwood@cfmc.org and must be received no later than 8:00 A.M. MST, July 22, 2008.
Contract will be awarded by July 28, 2008 10:00 P.M. MST. All remaining notifications will be sent by July 29, 2008 10:00 A.M. MST

Request for Proposal (pdf)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: Support for Implementation of the Dry Run for HF Readmission Measure Proposal

The Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC) has received funding from Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for a special project: “Implementation of the Dry Run for the CMS 30-Day Heart Failure Readmission Measure.” Obligations to this project include support to hospitals, QIOs and the public to respond to questions of a clinical and technical nature about the measure methodology and modeling, and the performance of additional ad hoc analyses as requested by CMS.

To best accomplish this, CFMC is requesting proposals from organizations with relevant, verifiable experience using CMS claims and enrollment data, and performing complex data analyses using sophisticated statistical approaches (hierarchical modeling, bootstrapping, etc.).

A letter of intent should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org by 10:00 A.M. MST, July 10, 2008.
Questions about this RFP should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org by 10:00 P.M. MST, July 10, 2008.
Responses will be posted on this Web page by 3:00 P.M. MST, July 11, 2008. Questions will be answered most efficiently if they are submitted as original emails with the subject heading “CMS 30-Day HF Readmission Measure Dry Run”.
Technical proposals should be submitted to dturkmani@cfmc.org and must be received no later than 8:00 A.M. MST, July 21, 2008. Business proposals should be submitted to bwood@cfmc.org and must be received no later than 8:00 A.M. MST, July 22, 2008.
Contract will be awarded by July 28, 2008 10:00 P.M. MST. All remaining notifications will be sent by July 29, 2008 10:00 A.M. MST.

Request for Proposal (pdf)