SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Health Plan Decision Tool
- Notice Date
- 7/3/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), Division of Procurement, UNB 4th Floor 200 Third Street, Parkersburg, WV, 26101-5312
- ZIP Code
- 26101-5312
- Solicitation Number
- BPD-02-CI-0023
- Response Due
- 7/17/2002
- Point of Contact
- Shelia Monroe, Contract Specialist, Phone (304) 480-7136, Fax (304) 480-7203, - Tammie Johnson, Contracting Officer, Phone (304) 480-7139, Fax (304) 480-7203,
- E-Mail Address
-
procurement@bpd.treas.gov, procurement@bpd.treas.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt intends to acquire, on a sole source basis, health plan decision tools (support software) from Asparity Decision Solutions, Inc., P. O. Box 14233, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709. The health plan decision tools will be for use by customer agencies of the Franchise Business Activity-Central (FBAC) of Cincinnati, OH. FBA-Central has a need for an automated, user-friendly, web-based Federal Health Plan preference-based decision support application. The application tool must have the ability to match an employee's personal health care preferences against their eligible health plan set, and rank them in the order that best meets their personal needs. The system must allow employees and annuitants access to compare specific information about available health plans, including benefit features, quality indicators, customer satisfaction ratings, accreditation status, and cost information. The system or tool should use an intelligent multiple decision-making process of personal preferences, not just a matrix-oriented comparative checklist. The FBAC has a need for the decision tool to be easily linked to an existing central web site that provides employee benefits information. The link must be easily accessible without users having to deploy additional software. The system must be able to host a large number of employees (500,000+) and have the scalability to add or remove thousands of users and handle hundreds of updates on hundreds of health plans. The customer agencies that could become potential users of this service are worldwide. Therefore, the decision tool must include all Federal Health Care Plans (FEHB) available to employees, and be in compliance with Federal Regulation 508. It is anticipated that customer agencies will begin receiving services on the first calendar day of the new fiscal year. Therefore, the required system must be operational and able to accept customers no later than September 30, 2002. Firms must submit a description of their proposal in sufficient technical detail to substantiate the ability of any alternative service to meet all of these requirements. Submissions should be sent to Shelia Monroe, contract specialist, at the contracting office address listed above. If no affirmative written response is received within 15 days after publication of this notice to the effect that a comparable service is available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining the service through the proposed contractor, a sole-source award will be made. No solicitation document is available. Requests for a solicitation document will not be considered an affirmative response.
- Record
- SN00110998-W 20020705/020704052758 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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