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VA RFP: Accelerating VA Innovation and Learning (AVAIL)

Updated May 16, 2022

Notice ID: 36C10X22R0027

“Scope: Except as may be expressly stated in this Contract or orders issued hereunder as furnished by the Government, the Contractor shall provide all management, labor, materials, equipment, facilities, and other resources necessary to perform work ordered in any of the five Task Categories set forth in Section 6.0.”

“Orders may be issued for any work within the general scope of this Contract.  VA may order work that is limited in scope to just one component of a single Task Category or Task Group, or VA may order work that spans multiple Task Categories and/or Task Groups.  Work ordered under the Contract can encompass matters other than specific examples provided in Section 6.0.  Decisions regarding what work will be ordered will be made by VA after award of this Contract and throughout its ordering period.”

“Work within the general scope of this Contract does not encompass production deployment and/or development of solutions which may require dedicated IT development on the part of VHA and/or VA OI&T.”

  • “Task Category 1: Innovation in Personalized Healthcare
  • Task Category 2: Innovation in Data Transformation
  • Task Category 3: Innovation in Digital Health
  • Task Category 4: Innovation in Immersive Technology: Extended Reality Solutions
  • Task Category 5: Innovation in Care and Service Delivery”

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Posted November 28, 2021

Notice ID: 36C10X22Q0028

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this RFI in accordance with FAR 15.201(e).  The agency does not intend to award a contract but rather gather information on capability, delivery and other market information pertinent for acquisition planning. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement and identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for the following: …

Task 6.2 Data Transformation

Subtask 6.2.1 Advanced Clinical Decision Support Solutions

The contractor shall participate in the design, development, testing, and/or evaluation of new, advanced clinical decision support tools spanning a wide range of clinical areas. Specific work shall focus on augmenting highly reliable, precise, and data driven clinical care delivery amongst the following lanes of effort: (1) chronic disease management (i.e. diabetes, brain health, chronic kidney disease, heart failure, long COVID, amongst others); (2) high risk, high utilizer patient populations (i.e. multiple chronic conditions, cancer, frequent utilization of emergency or urgent care); (3) vulnerable or underserved patient populations (i.e. homeless, food insecurity); (4) acute conditions such as sepsis.

Solutions must take advantage of the existing suite of VA data and analytic platforms (i.e. BI – business intelligence, VA Arches, VA Common Operating Platform, MDClone, amongst others), VA FHIR-based APIs, and VA data sets (i.e. Patient-Generated Health Data, Corporate Data Warehouse, VINCI, Financial Services Center resource and claims date, amongst others). Specific features must include integration into existing VA workflows and/or existing product lines utilizing software-as-a-service, mobile applications, and existing clinical information systems where possible. Solution development must follow a human centered design methodology and also include objective methods to measure the impact of use of the CDS tool on Veteran-centered outcomes, including clinical, financial, and operational impact…

Subtask 6.2.2 Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Neural Networks (NN) Solutions

The contractor shall participate in the design, development, testing, and/or evaluation of new artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP) or neural networks (NN) solutions across a wide range of clinical and administrative areas. Specific work shall focus on augmenting highly reliable, data driven clinical care delivery amongst the following lanes of effort: (1) chronic disease management (i.e. diabetes, brain health, chronic kidney disease, heart failure, long COVID, amongst others); (2) high risk, high utilizer patient populations (i.e. multiple chronic conditions, frequent utilization of emergency or urgent care); and (3) vulnerable or underserved patient populations (i.e. homeless, food insecurity); (4) acute conditions such as sepsis; and (5) administrative task automation within the clinical workflow…

Subtask 6.2.3 Application Program Interfaces (API) Solutions

The contractor shall participate in the design, development, testing, and/or evaluation of new healthcare API solutions across a wide range of clinical and administrative areas. Specific work shall focus on augmenting highly reliable, data driven clinical care delivery amongst the following lanes of effort: (1) solution interoperability; (2) health record and patient information exchange; (3) automation of administrative task (i.e. patient scheduling, insurance capture and billing); (4) capture and integration of remote patient monitoring data into existing workflows; and (5) capture and integration of patient reported outcomes into existing workflows…

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Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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