D -- Advanced Technology Platform

A sole source procurement is contemplated to deNovis, Inc. of Lexington, Massachusetts. deNovis will furnish technology in support of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advanced Technology Platform (ATP) pilot project. A Sources Sought Notice was published on the FedBizOps website on April 5, 2002. CMS received forty-one responses to the Sources Sought Notice. deNovis, Inc. will provide an off-the-shelf solution containing the degree of completeness, availability and generic usability that is required to support the ATP pilot as specified in the synopsis portion of the Sources Sought Notice. The ATP pilot will use an off-the-shelf product that contains an all-inclusive, all-encompassing industry specific object model for the modern U.S. healthcare industry. The off-the-shelf product will also contain an English-like high-level language suitable for use by Medicare program policy and business analysts. The English-like language will map 1-to-1 to the object model and can be used to instantiate specific components of the object model. An interpretive engine will translate the objects and language into directly executable logic maps. The object model defines all the potential semantics (nouns and verbs) to enable an activity while the language defines a specific instance of an activity. The major objective of the ATP pilot is to radically change the Systems Development Methodology (SDM) for the creation of CMS health care administrative systems in general and CMS claims processing systems specifically. CMS will build the ATP pilot to replicate the functionality of the Municipal Health Services Program demonstration system, using a set of tools that will allow the creation of claims processing systems through the use of breakthrough technology. This technology will be sufficiently advanced to allow for the direct participation of Medicare program policy and business analysts, with no IT related training other than the ability to write English in a structured format, in the unambiguous creation of executable logic maps. The object model will provide traditional systems analysis and design functionality. Generation of code will be done directly from policy and operational statements as they are restructured into the English-like language. The anticipated advantage to CMS is the automation of resource intensive portions of the SDM, the rapid deployment of time sensitive changes, and the unambiguous mapping of policy and operational statements to executable logic maps. This contract will be awarded for a period of performance of eight (8) months from date of contract award for the ATP pilot.