HRSA Awards Sparksoft with a 5-Year BPA for Independent Testing, Verification, and Validation (ITV&V) Services

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Columbia MD, April 6, The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded Sparksoft Corporation with a 5-Year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to perform Independent Testing, Verification, and Validation (ITV&V) Services for Information Technology (IT) Systems. HRSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) whose mission is to improve health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce and innovative programs. HRSA assures the availability of quality health care to low income, uninsured, isolated, vulnerable and special needs populations. As the world’s leading public health agency, HRSA has the responsibility for promoting health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability. HRSA serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control methodologies, environmental health strategies, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States and throughout the world. HRSA operates more than 100 programs and awards more than $12 billion dollars in Federal grants on an annual basis to approximately 6,000 partner organizations.

Sparksoft will provide the below ITV&V services for any HRSA IT systems or subsystems under the scope of this BPA to meet the mission of HRSA, which includes cloud readiness and enhancements, test automation framework and platform enhancements, predictive defect analytics and visual testing using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Section 508 compliance verification, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and data generation testing:

Task Area 1: Project Management
Task Area 2: Software Quality Assurance
Task Area 3: Test Automation, Framework Enhancements and Verification Activities
Task Area 4: System Validation/User Acceptance
Task Area 5: ITV&V Optimization, Innovation growth and Develop Comprehensive Documentation
Task Area 6: ITV&V Transition Activity
Task Area 7: Section 508
Task Area 8: Security Requirements
Task Area 9: Acquisitions Involving Government information processed using Cloud Services

The following is a partial list of the larger HRSA IT systems/subsystems that may leverage this BPA:

Electronic Handbooks (EHBs)
Provider Relief Fund (PRF) IT Systems
Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) Management Information System Solution (BMISS)
National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
Data Warehouse (DWH)

“It is our privilege to continue expanding our healthcare solutions throughout HHS, and with this HRSA ITV&V award Sparksoft also extends our footprint in the life sciences domain.” said Sparksoft’s President Ms. Siva Sivaraman. Sparksoft’s CEO, Mr. Mike Finkel stated that “It is never easy to break into a new agency and I am very excited to establish Sparksoft’s roots across HRSA through this agency-wide BPA. We are honored that HHS continues to recognize our expertise and trusts us with incredible national missions that impact our families and communities.”

This award builds on Sparksoft’s highly successful breadth of independent quality assurance work across HHS such as Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of the Immunization Gateway for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS) modernization as the HETS Independent Testing Contractor (HITC), support the Medicare Payment Systems Modernization from legacy Mainframe and Cobol solution to a Microservices Architecture in the AWS Cloud on Medicare Integrated Systems Testing (MIST), functional and performance testing of Quality Payment Program (QPP) on Health Care Quality Information System (HCQIS) Enterprise Integrated Supplemental Testing (HEIST), quality monitoring of Customer Service Representatives (CSR) at Medicare and Marketplace 1-800-MEDICARE Contact Center Operations (CCO) on the Independent Quality Assurance (IQA), and Innovation Center Independent Testing Service (ICITS) center-wide support at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

About Sparksoft Corporation

Sparksoft is a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services and Development Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000-1:2018, ISO 27001:2013, and Federal Wide Assurance for the Protection of Human Subjects certified consulting organization with a proven record of successfully delivering modern digital health solutions for more than a dozen Federal, State, and Commercial customers. As evidenced by our 20+ active prime contracts and subcontracts, and further supported by our excellent Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs), Sparksoft is a highly mature and capable partner trusted by the government and industry. We bring to bear the essential institutional knowledge, contract vehicles, certifications, experienced personnel, and process maturity to deliver the requirements in compliance with Federal regulations, industry best practices, and agency governance needs.

Through our focused mission “to ignite innovation, inspire transformation, and implement digital solutions for a healthier nation” we specialize in DevOps Delivery, Data Science, Contact Center Operations, and Test Automation. Since 2004, our exceptionally skilled people, proven leadership, and optimized processes all work together to relentlessly push for more efficient solutions for our HHS, Military Health, and Life Sciences clients. We have developed a support structure of Innovation Centers designed to collect our enterprise-wide lessons learned and identify project-specific opportunities for improvement. SparkLabs, where our Research & Development teams explore ideas and turn them into real-world solutions is an important impetus in our drive for innovation. We continually pull from our experience and combine this with forward-thinking technology from our certified partners like Red Hat, Microsoft, AWS, Okta, Google, Databricks, and ServiceNow to conceptualize novel and effective solutions such as our SparkLoader® RPA data pipeline, SparkGrid® Snowflake GUI, MockSpider® virtual sandbox, ScriptHive® for TDD/BDD automation, SparkMarker® website acceptance testing, and 508bee® for accessibility validation.

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