CMS Awards Sparksoft with a 3-Year $10M Prime Contract to Provide Marketplace Open Modernization and Optimization Technologies (MOMOT)

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Columbia, MD, May 18, 2023 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Sparksoft Corporation with a 3-year, $10 Million prime contract to maintain and evolve Marketplace Open Modernization and Optimization Technologies (MOMOT). The CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) is charged with helping implement many reforms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health reform bill that was signed into law March 23, 2010, to oversee the implementation of ACA Marketplace provisions related to private health insurance. CCIIO works closely with state regulators, private insurers, federal agencies, insurance brokers, consumers, and various other stakeholders to ensure legislative provisions affecting and/or related to private health insurance best serve the American people. Since the first Open Enrollment after the ACA was established, the Marketplace Information Technology Group (MITG)—CCIIO’s embedded information technology (IT) office—has supported and maintained a portfolio of IT solutions that deliver on various aspects of CCIIO’s scope.

Under this contract, Sparksoft will provide program management, ongoing implementation, operations, and maintenance (O&M) of the MOMOT Platform as a general support system (GSS), as well as evolution (design, build, and deployment of future capabilities) of MOMOT. MOMOT provides a common, multi-tenant operating platform with a consistent development and delivery pipeline for Marketplace containerized workloads. MOMOT establishes inheritable security controls for tenants and alleviates cloud infrastructure O&M burdens. MOMOT consists of:

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) – A centralized, multi-tenant capable container orchestration platform built on Red Hat OpenShift and hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure.
Trusted Software Supply Chain (TSSC) – A collection of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), SecOps, and telemetry tools that ensures a common and consistent set of IT delivery capabilities and methods for the MOMOT tenants. The TSSC employs tools specifically selected for CCIIO use as well as tools provided as a common service by the CMS Office of Information Technology (OIT).

"We are honored and humbled that the government continues to trust us with support on some of the most mission-critical public health programs that impact our families and communities. It is truly a privilege to be such a trusted partner to our CMS clients, who are some of the most dedicated public servants leading transformational missions.” said Sparksoft’s President Ms. Siva Sivaraman. Sparksoft’s CEO, Mr. Mike Finkel stated that “Through our strategic partnership with Red Hat and deep CMS domain expertise, we are able to quickly deliver highly qualified professionals and impactful solutions. With Sparksoft managing multiple agency-wide shared services, we take our responsibility to drive value and ROI for CMS very seriously through our obligation to continue seeking out holistic synergies, meaningful efficiencies, and technical breakthroughs at an enterprise scale to ensure that the Marketplace is sustainable for years to come.”

The MOMOT award expands Sparksoft’s footprint supporting vital pillars of the ACA Marketplace on CCIIO programs like the Multidimensional Insurance Data Analytics System (MIDAS), Federal Data Services Hub (Hub), and Marketplace Service Desk (MSD); as well as delivering other CMS ecosystem innovations such as providing highly secure and available access to over 50 integrated systems on Enterprise Portal Services (EPS), Medicare Payment Systems Modernization from legacy Mainframe and Cobol solution to a Microservices Architecture in the AWS Cloud on Medicare Integrated Systems Testing (MIST), and the HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS) modernization as the HETS Independent Testing Contractor (HITC). To learn more about Sparksoft’s role in supporting CCIIO with the ACA Marketplace during the Coronavirus pandemic, please visit https://www.sparksoftcorp.com/articles/sparksoft-supports-aca-marketplace.html.

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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