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RFI - Consent-Based Income Verification Solutions

ID: APP240466 • Type: Sources Sought

Description

Income verification is part of the application process for nearly all health and human service benefits programs. When an applicant's income cannot be verified electronically, eligible people and case workers are left to do the onerous and time-consuming work of manual verification. Our interest is in expanding the ways that people can automatically verify their income, and one method we are exploring is consent-based or consumer-permissioned methods.

Based on research conducted to date, consent or consumer-permissioned methods represent software services that allow customers to access their own data from various payroll and financial institutions and give consent to share that data with another party for decision-making purposes.

Workers who receive their income from non-traditional work arrangements (such as self-employment, gig and contingent work) represent an increasing size of the U.S. workforce. When applying for benefits, non-traditional work wages are not adequately represented in income verification data sources that primarily serve the W-2 workforce.

Background
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking information on consent-based income verification solutions. The initiative is part of the Customer Experience Executive Order signed by President Biden, which aims to help those who face financial shocks. The goal is to automate and improve the customer experience for non-traditional wage earners who are applying for benefits programs such as Medicaid and SNAP.

Work Details
The work involves collecting information about consent or consumer-permissioned applications that exist in the market today. This includes understanding the availability of these current solutions, their current maturity, and their potential for adaptation to serve public sector benefits application processes. Interested parties are required to complete a questionnaire attached to the Request for Information (RFI), providing details about their business, service workflow, data integration partners, cost, data retention, security and privacy measures, integrations provided, project management practices, public sector partnership experiences, and any other considerations relevant to consent-based income verification services for government benefit programs.
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Overview

Agency
CMS Office of Acquisition and Grants Management (OAGM) [HHS - CMS]
Response Deadline
Jan. 12, 2024, 10:00 a.m. EST (original: Jan. 5, 2024, 10:00 a.m. EST) Past Due
Posted
Dec. 11, 2023, 9:41 a.m. EST (updated: Jan. 2, 2024, 7:31 a.m. EST)
Set Aside
None
NAICS
541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services
PSC
DA01 - IT And Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
Place of Performance
Windsor Mill, MD 21244 United States
Source
SAM
Current SBA Size Standard
$34 Million
Pricing
Multiple Types Common
Est. Level of Competition
Low
Odds of Award
10%
On 12/11/23 CMS Office of Acquisition and Grants Management issued Sources Sought APP240466 for RFI - Consent-Based Income Verification Solutions due 1/12/24. The opportunity was issued full & open with NAICS 541511 and PSC DA01.
Primary Contact
Name
Laura Daniels   Profile
Email
laura.daniels@cms.hhs.gov
Phone
None

Secondary Contact

Name
julie bebber   Profile
Email
julie.bebber@cms.hhs.gov
Phone
None

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Additional Details

Source Agency Hierarchy
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF > CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES > OFC OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS MGMT
FPDS Organization Code
7530-75FCMC
Source Organization Code
500019128
Last Updated
Jan. 27, 2024
Last Updated By
julie.bebber@cms.hhs.gov
Archive Date
Jan. 27, 2024