Specifications include, but are not limited to: The State of South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) is issuing this RFI is to solicit information from vendors to implement a third-party administrator (TPA)solution for Medicaid expansion recipients that includes prior authorization(PA), medical, behavioral health, and personal care provider claimsprocessing and payment, customer service supports for both Medicaidproviders and Medicaid Expansion recipients, and data analytics andreporting. The current information systems used by DSS staff arecomprised of multiple applications running within mainframe and client-server-based platforms, multiple spreadsheets and databases, andunstructured documents. Some of these systems are maintained andsupported by the State’s Bureau of Information and Telecommunications(BIT); others are maintained within DSS. For example, the TPA may needto exchange information with systems used by other programs within DSS,including but not limited to the State’s mainframe for MMIS, and the Benefits Eligibility and Enrollment System (BEES), and the Provider Enrollment and Credentialing System (PECS). This information exchange must occur with the DSS data warehouse at the start of the contract. There may be additional data exchange needed when the BEES and PECS systems are fully implemented, which is expected later in 2023