Agility brings current capabilities and substantial corporate experience to CMS. Each of Agility’s joint venture partners, DDL and T&H, have well-established experience providing the full spectrum of IT lifecycle services in the Federal IT Health space. We have performed similar work throughout the Federal Government, including at CMS, HHS and VA. Our proven performance and deep domain experience greatly exceeds CMS’ contractor requirements and presents the lowest risk, most expedient transition, and most accelerated path to mission success of any team. This bold claim is substantiated because Agility presents:
- Highly Relevant Core Competencies with an extensive portfolio of successful programs related to IT (and specifically Health IT) services, systems engineering, application development, Agile methodology, testing, and program and project management. The benefit to CMS is unfettered access to highly qualified, local resources for immediate productivity towards sustainment, surge, and new requirements.
- Highly Relevant Program and Project Expertise. Managed tracking status of responses to states’ questions and issues, determining the state progress in meeting Exchange requirements, and documenting state interactions by participating in state calls, compiling meeting notes, tracking action items, and researching state and federal laws. The benefit to CMS is strong mission domain experience which results in no service disruption during transition.
- Highly Relevant People and Process Expertise. We recruit and retain personnel with not only CMS experience but aligned with the mission. As an example Ms. Sharron Lewis, in working to support the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Exchange Implementation Support (EIS) Approval Team, 7/2012-4/2014 authored the Design Review Progress Letter and Exchange Approval Report, which are high visible documents (submitted to the Secretary of HHS for approval and the White House) that articulate a state’s ACA progress and serve as the formal documents of record for the federal government. The benefit to CMS is retention of specialized, high-performing talent CMS knows and trusts.