Please refer to the Request For Information (RFI) below for additional details: Request for Information RFI Request - Minimum Data Set (MDS) - new requirement FORCE Entry # VA-25-00019860 Introduction The VA s Office of Information and Technology (OIT) on behalf of VHA Geriatrics and Extended Care (GEC) Program Office is conducting Market Research on vendors capable of providing support for the Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) Internal Quality Improvement and Evaluation Systems (iQIES) software product originally developed for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). VA anticipates that the iQIES license will be extended to cover VA usage of a subset of iQIES capabilities supporting the creation of Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) and Minimum Data Set (MDS) analysis and reports. VA policy requires the usage of iQIES algorithms for determining whether nursing homes and state homes are meeting mandated standards for quality of care. VHA GEC empowers Veterans to rise above the challenges of aging, disability or serious illness. VHA GEC provides leadership, planning, and policy in support of the GEC mission to honor Veterans preferences for health, independence, and well-being in the face of aging, disability, or illness by advancing expertise, programs, and partnerships. VHA GEC manages the VA Community Living Centers Program (formerly known as VA Nursing Home Care Units) which provides compassionate care to eligible veterans with sufficient functional impairment. Veterans with chronic stable conditions including dementia, those requiring rehabilitation or short-term specialized services such as respite or intravenous therapy, or those who need comfort and care at the end of life are served in the VA Community Living Centers. Veterans may stay for a short time or, in rare instances, for the rest of their life. It is a place where Veterans can receive nursing home level of care, which includes help with activities of daily living and skilled nursing and medical care. There are 135 Community Living Centers across the country. All VA CLC s are required to submit MDS s to VA s Legacy MDS data repository in the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) for analysis by the VHA GEC National Program Office staff. VA also formally recognizes and certifies 188 State Veterans Home (SVH) facilities, which provide nursing home, domiciliary or adult day care to Veterans. These State Veterans Homes are surveyed each year to make sure they continue to meet VA standards. VA does not manage State Veterans Homes, they are owned, operated and managed by state governments. They date back to the post-Civil War era when many states created them to provide shelter to disabled and homeless Veterans. All VA contracted SVH s are required to submit MDS s to VA s Legacy MDS data repository in the AITC for analysis by the VHA GEC National Program Office staff. Currently, VA s Legacy MDS serves as a repository of the standardized patient assessments for VHA's Community Living Centers (CLCs) and State Veterans Homes' nursing homes. The standardized assessments, which are referred to as MDS by health care associates are completed in applications external to the Minimum Data Set Repository. These assessments are then uploaded by the repository users via the MDS repository website. The MDS repository is then used to perform comprehensive reporting and to allow comparative review of care. The VA s Legacy MDS system is essentially obsolete. VA is attempting to keep the VA Legacy MDS up to date with the mandated clinical standards of care and for VHA Congressionally required reporting. VA is researching the feasibility of implementing components of the iQIES functionality at VA to collect, store, analyze and report RAI/MDS data. For purposes of this RFI, the VA iQIES implementation will be referred to as iQIES-VA. The implementation effort would include migration of data from the VA Legacy MDS to iQIES-VA. The effort would include support in customization for VA-specific requirements as well as a maintenance agreement to keep the iQIES-VA solution updated to reflect changes in reporting requirements and analysis algorithms implemented in iQIES. The effort will require the ability to collect data and run the following reports: Report Name Report Category Report Type MDS MDS 3.0 QM Package Package Reports Quality Measure MDS 3.0 Activity Provider Submission MDS 3.0 Admissions/Reentry/Discharges Report Provider Admission/ Discharge MDS 3.0 Missing OBRA Assessment Provider Submission MDS 3.0 NH Error Detail Report Provider Error MDS 3.0 NH Final Validation Report Provider Validation MDS 3.0 Roster Report Provider Roster MDS 3.0 SB Error Detail Provider Error MDS 3.0 SB Final Validation Report Provider Validation MDS 3.0 Submitter Final Validation Report Provider Validation MDS 3.0 Facility Characteristics Report Quality Measure Facility-Level Quality Measure MDS 3.0 Facility-Level Quality Measure (QM) Report Quali