MAC Banking Contract for Commercial Banking Services for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Medicare Claims Processing Contractors and Demonstration Projects

This synopsis is a pre-solicitation notice and is not a Request for Proposal (RFP). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be issuing an RFP for the re-compete of the MAC Banking Contract for Commercial Banking Services for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Medicare Claims Processing Contractors and Demonstration Projects. CMS will use two commercial Financial Institutions meeting our requirements to disburse payments for MAC authorized payments and Demonstration program payments. Each Financial Institution will perform payment services in both arenas: 1) to disburse Medicare payments authorized by the MACs 2) to disburse payments for CMS Demonstration projects. CMS anticipates award of two contracts each with a 12-month base period and four (4) 12-month option periods. CMS intends to solicit for this requirement under full and open competition FAR Part 12, commercial services; this announcement is not an RFP. CMS anticipates release of a RFP on or about January 21, 2014; the solicitation will be available on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website.