Waiting for HRSA's request for bids to reorganize deceased organ recovery and allocation

Frank McCormick's invaluable email newsletter includes this Bloomberg article on potential bidders who may emerge when HRSA puts out bids to break up the functions that UNOS presently aggregates for managing the deceased donor organ system.  I'm still not at all sure what bids will be forthcoming, especially since the planned request for bids is still quite opaque.

Big Tech, Startups Look to Revamp Troubled Organ Donation System  by Tony Pugh

"Later this fall, the Health Resources and Services Administration plans to solicit bids for the first round of contracts on the OPTN modernization project. The competition will usher in a years-long effort to both stand up new digital technology that better serves the 100,000-plus people on the organ waiting list, while increasing accountability, equity, and efficiency in the way organs are recovered, matched, and transplanted."

Often when I see a short quote broken up into even smaller pieces I worry that it might not accurately represent what was actually said, but this quote is spot on:

“When I look at” the current software used to match organs with possible recipients and to send accept-or-refuse offers to transplant surgeons, “it reminds me of the 1980s,” said Nobel Prize-winning Stanford University economist Alvin E. Roth, who studies how kidneys are matched with suitable candidates.