HERNDON, Va. – HP has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to consolidate and host the data center operations of all nine common working file (CWF) host sites for the agency. This consolidation effort will enable CMS to streamline its data center hosting operations, improve hosting reliability and reduce costs.
The task order was awarded under the CMS Enterprise Data Center Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract and is worth up to $19.8 million through 2014, if all options are exercised.
CMS’s nine regional CWF host sites store Medicare Part A and Part B eligibility information for about 45 million beneficiaries within the United States. The CWF application allows Medicare administrative contractors, fiscal intermediaries and carriers to verify beneficiary eligibility, receive prepayment reviews and obtain approval of Medicare insurance claims.
Under the task order, EDS will operate and host all CWF host site applications from its data center, which is capable of processing eligibility inquiries for all CMS beneficiaries.
To support the consolidation, EDS also will provide data center host implementations and corrections, web hosting, data storage, mainframe services, transition services, shared infrastructure services, enterprise data center program management and general support.
“By hosting CMS’s common working file applications, EDS continues its commitment to provide the agency with accurate beneficiary information and timely claim transactions,” said Dennis Stolkey, senior vice president of U.S. Public Sector at EDS, an HP company. “EDS has been a Medicare partner since 1965, and we are pleased with this opportunity to further support the CMS data center consolidation program.”
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