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RFQ 2015-4ADDENDUM 1All questions on this RFQ are due by close of business on Thursday, August 27, 2015 and are to be submitted via email to Stephanie Kuppersmith at skuppersmi@. All questions will be posted to the DGS website no later than close of business on Monday August 31, 2015.The instructions say to complete the proposal “on this form”, but the RFQ document is a pdf document. If the response is to be provided on this form, can a Word version of the RFQ and related forms/documents be provided?? Answer: No, the offeror should print the pdf document and fill out the required sections and scan the completed documents and submit via email.Please confirm that the response does not need to be submitted through the on-line ITQ response portal, but instead e-mailed directly to skuppersmi@.? Answer: The response is to be submitted via email directly to skuppersmi@.Task 5.a: How many years and covering what time periods will the de-identified data be provided for the PEBTF data?Answer: This will be determined between the vendor and PEBTF.Is the de-identified data references [sic] in 5.a readily available now or will the Contractor need to work with the PEBTF and the Medicaid agency, respectively, to define the data parameters, data format, and data layout? Getting data for large number of individuals covered by PEBTF and Medicaid (Medicaid has over 2 million participants) could be very time consuming if not already available to support this RFQ. Answer: No, it is not available now. The vendor will be requesting the data from PEBTF and the Department of Human Services.Will the data in Task 5.a be person-level, individual claims level detail, but the recipient ID information disguised or will the data provided in Task 5.a be summarized non-person level data? Can a sample file layout be provided of the data DoH will make available to support this RFQ?Answer: The Department of Health anticipates data to be aggregated, de-identified demographic data. There is no sample file to be shared at this time. That is something that can be requested by the awarded vendor.Will the data in Task 5.a enable the counting of individual services for individual people? For example, will the data provided as part of this RFQ enable the Contractor to count the number of prescriptions paid for in a given month for a unique person?Answer: This will be aggregate data. Further analytic approaches may be discussed between the vendor, PEBTF, and DHS as appropriate.The Cost Matrix items #2 and #3 apply to work items in Tasks A.4 and A.6. Please confirm that the amount to be submitted for these items is a single fixed-fee, lump sum cost to complete these respective Tasks and that the Contractor will be paid the fixed-fee amounts upon completion of the respective Task. If not, please elaborate on how Contractor will be compensated for completing Tasks A.4 and A.6.Answer: Yes, the amount to be submitted for items 2 and 3 is a lump sum for each item.? Upon completion and the Commonwealth’s acceptance of each item (2 & 3), the contractor will be paid the fixed fee amounts.The Cost Matrix item #1 requires hours to be estimated and a fully-blended, all-encompassing hourly rate for “Ongoing Consulting Work.” Please elaborate whether the Contractor will be paid the lump sum total cost proposal (hours x unit cost proposed total cost) for all work related Tasks other than A.4 and A.6 or whether the blended hourly rate and actual hours worked will be the basis for payment for non-Task A.4 and A.6 activity. Answer: The blended hourly rate and actual hours worked will be the basis for payment for all tasks outlined in Appendix A except for paragraphs I.A.4 and I.A.6.Please confirm that the maximum Total Project Cost in Appendix B cannot exceed $250,000 per the expedited RFQ parameters? If not, does DoH have a maximum budget in mind for this RFQ? Answer: The maximum total project cost cannot exceed $250,000. ................
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