CMS is seeking industry information to support the future recompete of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) and is requesting input on solutions to operate, modernize, and optimize its hybrid cloud environment. The agency plans to establish new FedRAMP High environments in Google Cloud Platform and commercial Microsoft Azure, which are expected to become operational in Spring/Summer 2026. CMS also intends to elevate its commercial AWS environments to ATO High to transition away from AWS GovCloud and Azure Government. The goal is to enable secure, scalable, and cost-effective delivery of CMS mission systems while supporting new technologies and federal cloud strategies.

CMS is seeking industry information to support the future recompete of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) and is requesting input on solutions to operate, modernize, and optimize its hybrid cloud environment. The agency plans to establish new FedRAMP High environments in Google Cloud Platform and commercial Microsoft Azure, which are expected to become operational in Spring/Summer 2026. It also intends to elevate its commercial AWS environments to ATO High. The goal is to enable a secure, scalable, and cost-effective hosting environment for mission systems. No specific budget or location for performance is mentioned in this description.