Data Exchange System (DEX) - LSJ

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is acquiring IT services for the continuation of operations and maintenance for the Data Exchange (DEX) system, as well as to continue making system improvements utilizing the agile methodology for system enhancements. CMS expects this system to broadly support the agency's efforts to detect and prevent healthcare provider fraud, waste, abuse, and errors in the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs. It will achieve this through greater transparency and alignment among the Medicare and Medicaid programs enrollment records and administrative actions. The DEX system will support the Government in its efforts to aggregate and distribute information about providers across Medicare and Medicaid, a requirement of the Affordable Care Act, Section 6501. The Contractor is required to continue to develop, maintain, and support a system for sharing data among CMS and the separate Medicaid programs of every State. The system will use open source software, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, or a combination. The Contractor will develop the system using Agile methods, within the CMS Expedited Lifecycle (XLC) structure. The Contractor will host the system in a CMS- accredited data center, provide ongoing enhancements to the system through scheduled releases, support its users and administrators, and supply standard and ad hoc reports on its data. CMS is developing steps to strengthen the agency's program and project management related to the acquisition strategy requirement. In the absence of an acquisition strategy, key risks and plans to manage the program are considered and captured in this Acquisition Plan.