RECOVERY--Development, Modification, Intellectual Support & e-Measure Maintenance Surrounding Electronic Specifications for Quality Measures, e-Specifications for CARE & Clinical Quality Measures for Reporting from EHR

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to issue a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) for the development, modification, intellectual support, and e-measure maintenance surrounding electronic specifications (e-specifications) for quality measures, e-specifications for Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE), and clinical quality measures to be used for reporting from electronic Health Records (EHRs) for the CMS quality reporting programs for OCSQ activities within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (ARRA/HITECH) program. The period of performance of the resulting contract will be a one-year base and three one-year option periods. CMS anticipates releasing the RFP as a total small business set-aside and will publish the RFP on this Federal Business Opportunities website on or about September 28, 2010. This presolicitation notice is informational only and no response is required. However, prospective offerors are encouraged to add themselves to the Interested Vendors list for this notice. Prospective offerors shall hold all questions untill issuance of the RFP.