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DCCA to Provide Critical Testing Support for Medicare & Medicaid Systems DCCA announced on December 10, 2008 that it has been awarded two contracts by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). DCCA will conduct Security Testing and Evaluations (ST&E) on systems across the agency and will be performing independent testing and validation of software components for the Health Plan Management System (HPMS). The awards are valued at $11 million and both are for a term of one year, with four one-year options. As the administrator of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, CMS is responsible for the payment of over $500 billion in medical services rendered annually to 90 million program beneficiaries and recipients. Under the terms of the first contract, DCCA will conduct testing and validation of software and system components that have been recently developed or modified to support the CMS HPMS, a Web-enabled information system that facilitates data collection, reporting activities, and day-to-day operations of important CMS health plan and drug benefit programs. This includes performance and stress testing, systems integration, as well as regression/acceptance testing of functional and user acceptance interfaces. The second contract calls for DCCA to perform security testing and evaluation on systems across the agency, including applications located at the
"We are extremely proud that we have been selected to perform independent software testing and ST&E services for some of CMS' most critical systems and applications," said David E. Bower, DCCA President and COO. "DCCA has been a technology partner of CMS for nearly 20 years, and we look forward to working with them to help secure data across their various agency systems and help meet their mission-critical needs." |
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