“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is conducting market research to find sources for COVID-19 data modeling, according to a Jan. 19 sources sought notice on beta.SAM.gov.”
“The VA is laying the groundwork for a later solicitation of a ‘commercial off the shelf Integrated Rapid Response and Modeling Contract.’ The agency is seeking a data modeling product that looks at both short-term and long-term potential outcomes of COVID-19, in terms of cases, hospitalizations, time to reach herd immunity, and more.”
“Other things the VA is looking for the contractor to do include:
- Using “proven methodologies gleaned from global experience supporting healthcare organizations through past pandemics”;
- Mining data from an automated data lake that utilized real-time COVID-19 data that refreshes weekly on a cloud-based platform;
- Using a system of 170 hospitals to “provide analysis leading to rapid COVID-19 pandemic response options that will support preparedness for VHA’s full healthcare system”; and
- Using data-modeling to create more than 40 epidemic scenarios, both short term – around 100 days – and long term – around two years…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Seeking Contractor for COVID-19 Data Modeling – By Lamar Johnson, January 22, 2021. MeriTalk.
