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CMS ESD

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded its $4 billion Enterprise System Development (ESD) contract to iFED, LLC, a joint venture formed by Thomas & Herbert Consulting LLC and TMI Solutions, Inc. and 15 other contractors. CMS will use the contract to acquire information technology over the next 10 years as the agency modernizes Medicare and Medicaid services and attempts to improve health care quality and reduce costs. ESD is CMS' new approach for acquiring, delivering and managing IT. Services provided under the contract will include planning, business requirements, design, development, testing and maintenance.

Indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts were awarded to 16 firms, with a minimum value of $1,000 in orders per contractor and a maximum of $4 billion in total. The ESD Service Model covers systems development and integration, system and application engineering and technical support to improve the automated systems and agency wide applications of the Health and Human Services Department. With the development of its Enterprise Data Centers and a Common Enterprise Infrastructure, CMS wants a common approach to system and software development and a contracting vehicle that provides for these services. The contract supports CMS' Integrated IT Investment and System Life Cycle Framework, a uniform approach for IT systems development and the CMS IT Modernization Program and initiatives. Task orders will cover life cycle services within a system or application development program, relate with other task orders under the same program and have defined exit criteria for successful completion.