The Veterans Affairs Department is putting the pressure on industry to respond quickly to its draft solicitation for the next iteration of the VA’s main contract for acquiring technology transformation services and solutions.

The draft for this new contract with a $60.7 billion ceiling went out on Friday, Jan. 13 (yes, Friday the 13th). Comments are due this coming Friday, Jan. 20…

In other words: pretty much anything to do with IT can go through the T4NG contract.

The VA plans to make 30 awards based on the “highest technically rated offerors.”…

The current T4NG contract will run in conjunction with the successor contract as the VA plans to wind down task orders under the original once the [latter] reaches its nearly $22 billion ceiling. The VA anticipates hitting that ceiling before the current contract expires in 2026… Read the full article here.