Management support and expert level advice to assist in transforming VA. This transformation requires VA to identify, reduce, and eliminate suboptimal processes for continuous incremental or…

This federal contract award is for management support and expert-level advice to assist in transforming the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The $257,899.37 firm fixed price contract was awarded by the VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick to Enterprise Resource Performance, Inc. (Erpi), a technology company providing IT solutions to government agencies. The contract, which is not set aside, is a call under the General Services Administration's Professional Services Schedule (PSS) vehicle. Erpi will provide a cadre of subject matter experts to support the VA's mission-oriented business and clinical functions across areas such as finance, human resources, clinical operations, and change management. This work is intended to help the VA adopt an integrated systems model across the entire department, including the Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration, and National Cemetery Administration, over the next decade.

Management support and expert level advice to assist in transforming VA. This transformation requires VA to identify, reduce, and eliminate suboptimal processes for continuous incremental or breakthrough improvements on an agile framework. Although the independent assessments addressed only veterans health administration, IT is vital the VA adopt an integrated systems model for the entire department (VHA, VBA, and NCA) over the next decade. IT is the goal that this work will be the genesis of that model. VA requires experts working with all operational components of the department in the areas of: finance, human resources, labor management relations, training, communications, commercial and government health operations, human centered design, organizational design, performance management, data analysis, clinical operations, and change management. The contractor shall provide the services of a cadre of highly successful and knowledgeable contractor resources and commercial health industry subject matter experts (SMES) to provide direct expert advice and assistance in support of thedepartment's mission-oriented business and clinical functions key to achieving desired outcomes. IT shall work closely with the highest levels of the organization to provide management or strategy consulting, including: referring to studies, analyses, market scenarios/simulations, reports, policy and regulation development assistance and strategy formulation; facilitation, communications support, business architecture, and related decision support services; survey services, using a variety of methodologies, including survey planning, design, and development; survey administration; data management, validation, and analysis; reporting, and stakeholder briefings.