Medicaid & CHIP DataConnect - The Medicaid & CHIP DataConnect ( MAC- DC) platform is CMCS s enterprise data and analytics environment for Medicaid and CHIP. It serves as the centralized platform where CMCS divisions access, analyze, manage, and publish Medicaid and CHI
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This is an exception to fair opportunity notice for Medicaid CHIP DataConnect (MACDC) platform support services. The contract award number is **** and the solicitation number is 75FCMc260056. The estimated total value is $13,834,146. 99. The period of performance is from March 25, 2026, to March 24, 2027. The contracting officer is Donald Bozimski, with the email ***@***. *. * contract is for IT and Telecom Platform Support Services, specifically database, mainframe, and middleware labor. The MACDC platform is an enterprise data and analytics environment for Medicaid and CHIP, providing access, analysis, management, and publication of data for reporting requirements. It supports over 450 users and numerous data pipelines, analytic workflows, and dashboards. Core services include operating and managing the enterprise data platform, maintaining secure connections, continuous security monitoring, ensuring data reliability, supporting user onboarding, and maintaining governance standards. The contractor also supports the Lifeline API for the FCC. All work is performed using government-furnished systems. This is a follow-on task order to continue essential enterprise operations while CMS completes a competitive reprocurement. Awarding this task order is in the interest of economy and efficiency to support active, high-priority initiatives such as rural health transformation program reporting, API development for fraud detection, AI-driven data services, public dashboards, and migration of workloads from legacy SAS environments to Databricks. Transitioning to a new contractor would risk delayed statutory reporting, postponed dashboard releases, slowed fraud detection, and disruption to AI service deployment. Maintaining the incumbent contractor avoids substantial duplication of cost and unacceptable delay in performance. The notice was posted to SAM. gov on April 1, 2026, and will remain posted until April 31, 2026.
The period of performance for this follow-on task order is from March 25, 2026, to March 24, 2027, as stated in the notice: This twelve month follow on task order period of performance: 03 25 2026 03 24 2027 continues essential enterprise operations on government furnished infrastructure without expanding scope.
The notice mentions that Price reasonableness and best value were documented at award, and the current task order provides the appropriate basis for continuation.
The contract award dollar amount is $13,834,****, as indicated in the notice: contract award dollar amount: 13, 834, ****.