Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C26321D0068

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 (VISN 23) has awarded a single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to Care Initiatives, doing business as Belle Plaine Specialty Care, a non-profit organization. The $10 million IDIQ contract, awarded on September 1, 2021, provides for the delivery of community nursing home services and related reporting across eight Midwestern and Plains states. Under this IDIQ, the VA has issued multiple firm-fixed-price delivery orders for Care Initiatives to provide nursing home services and generate quarterly EXPRESS reports on nursing home utilization and expenditures for veterans in the VISN 23 region. The most recent delivery orders have ceiling values ranging from $496 to $261,706, with periods of performance through September 2023. All of the contract awards were made through full and open competition without any set-aside designations, with the place of performance being Belle Plaine, Iowa, where Care Initiatives operates.

The original solicitation, posted in November 2020, sought proposals from contractors in the VISN 23 area to provide community nursing home services under IDIQ contracts. The VA anticipated issuing an open and continuous solicitation, with proposals accepted for approximately one year until December 2021. The solicitation specified that offerors must be licensed by their respective states, Medicare/Medicaid qualified, and registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database to be eligible for award. The solicitation was issued for full and open competition, with the VA anticipating making multiple and single awards on an as-needed basis.