National Drug Data File Renewal

INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends tonegotiate and award a sole source purchase order to the First Data Bank, 500 East 96th St., Suite500, Indianapolis, IN 46240 to purchase a renew data license to the National Drug Data File (NDDF).Under the authority of FAR 6.301-1 10 U.S.C. 2304, Only One Responsible Source and No OtherSupplies and Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements in accordance with the attached Statement ofWork.  A justification and approval is currently being processed for this requirement.This requirement is intended as a sole source procurement because First Data Bank (FDB) is the onlysource of the National NDDF, which CMS/ORDI needs to carry out research.CMS REQUIREMENTS: Careful market research was performed and found FDB either purchases all otherpreviously existing data sources, or the other data sources are no longer in existence. CMS usesNDDF exclusively for research and analysis projects related to Medicare

and Medicaid programs. Thespecific statistical data supplied by FDB has been used by CMS for many years. NAICS CODES: The NorthAmerican Industry Classification System (NAICS) is 51140 (Director and Mailing List Publishers) and thesize standard is 500 employees.INTERESTED PARTIES: All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, orquotation which shall be considered by the agency. In order to qualify as a potential contractorfor this procurement, the identical data files (NDDF) must already be in existence and available tothe contractor. FDB’s products include a complete line of drug databases, including clinicaldecision support and disease suite modules, applicators program interfaces, and standalone PCproducts. The FDB databases include descriptive drug information, drug pricing, and drugidentification. FDB’s unsurpassed clinical information and drug data, combined with Medi-Span’sdrug databases is the most complete source of current and authoritative drug information available.To be considered, interested vendors must submit technical literature describing their capabilityto effectively satisfy this requirement, as well as terms and conditions and a complete price quoteon or before Thursday, July 7, 2022 by 10:00 am EST, to the following electronicmail address: renee.wallaceabney@cms.hhs.gov.