04/01/10
Buccaneer Wins Five-Year Contract to Support Health Services Research
WARRENTON, VA, April 1, 2010 – Buccaneer Computer Systems & Service, Inc. (BCSSI) has been awarded a five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $100,000,000 to support health services research by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The CMS Databases to Support Health Services Research IDIQ contract will involve a variety of data activities including database development, database management, data dissemination, and analytic support for the Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW) and the Research Data Distribution Center (RDDC). Individual projects will be initiated through award of specific task orders. Buccaneer was also awarded Task Order 1 with a contract value of $19,367,195, if all option years are executed.
The award of this contract, under the direction of the Office of Research, Development and Information at CMS, will expand the existing CCW/RDDC infrastructure and analytics capabilities by adding new data sources and additional years of existing data to the environment. The Buccaneer team supporting this effort provides technical, statistical, analytic, and program management staff from its Iowa, Maryland, and Virginia offices.
The Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW) is a research database designed to:
• Identify areas for improving the quality of care provided to chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries
• Identify ways to reduce program spending
• Make current Medicare/Medicaid data more readily available to researchers studying chronic illness
CMS launched the CCW in 2006, in response to the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). Section 723 of the MMA mandated a plan to improve the quality of care and reduce the cost of care for chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries. An essential component of this plan was to establish a data warehouse that contains Medicare claims data and assessments, linked by beneficiary, across the continuum of care. Today the CCW/RDDC environment contains 213 billion records and 55 terabytes of disk space.
This IDIQ contract will provide Buccaneer with an opportunity to expand the CCW/RDDC further and include various types of CMS data and user-friendly data files for Medicare and Medicaid researchers.
To learn more about the CCW, visit www.ccwdata.org.
To learn more about BCSSI Computer Systems & Service, Inc., visit www.bcssi.com or e-mail information@bcssi.com.