Re: Solicitation Number: 36C10X19R0036
“This requirement will support the needs of VHA program offices, specifically the Office of Healthcare Transformation (OHT) and its customers to best accomplish VHA s mission and strategic goals, priorities and initiatives. This work will be complex and agile and will be best supported through expert healthcare contractors providing critical market-based healthcare industry skills that augment the internal activities of the VHA program offices. This acquisition, referred to as Veteran Healthcare Administration Integrated Healthcare Transformation (VHA IHT), will provide a vehicle for a broad range of general management and business services and solutions in the broad health care environment. The functional categories (FCs) will include: FC 1: Health System Transformation and Innovation, FC 2: Implementation and Operations Support and FC 3: Specialized Health Systems Functions (previous service groups consolidated and categorized within these three primary categories).”
“Task orders against this IDIQ contract will require contractor support for vast and complex healthcare programs and projects. VHA healthcare is a complex integrated system that must transform in response to both the changing needs of the Veteran population and changes in the healthcare industry. These shifts create challenges and require collaboration (internal and external partnerships) as well as new and innovative approaches to healthcare and healthcare delivery. The programs and projects will require diverse healthcare operations knowledge and experience. Subject matter expertise could be required to be rapidly available to provide national support under a potential task order including, but not limited to, the following areas: high reliability organization, electronic health records management, healthcare modernization and transformation (to include integration of artificial intelligence solutions and disruptive models), financial management business transformation in a healthcare setting, healthcare human resources (to include credentialing, privileging and licensing), healthcare regulatory compliance, healthcare analytics, mental health and suicide prevention, access to care, and population health. All work will support various areas under VHAs business functional framework.”
VA anticipates the release of a solicitation for August 2019.