COOP Monitoring Services

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 awarded this Master IDIQ on September 28, 2018, to provide clinical trial site monitoring services—specifically Clinical Research Quality Associate (CRQA) services under Good Clinical Practice standards—for the VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ordering closed on September 29, 2023, and the vehicle is no longer active.

The vehicle is effectively exhausted. Nine task orders totaling $2.1 million in combined potential value were awarded between May 2018 and February 2021, with all potential value obligated. Ordering momentum declined sharply after 2019: three orders in 2018 and 2019 each, two in 2020, and one in 2021. No orders have been placed since February 2021, and the ordering period expired nearly three years ago. This vehicle presents no new pursuit opportunity.

Task orders funded two primary categories: COOP monitoring services—which comprised the bulk of the work and ranged from $124,000 to $585,000 per order—and patent services (two small orders totaling roughly $741). Orders were priced firm fixed and carried completion dates typically twelve to thirty-six months from award. All work funded a single customer: VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 22.

Mary Mills & Associates, LLC dominated the vehicle, holding five of nine orders worth $1.3 million combined potential value (roughly 62% of total value). The Apelago Group LLC held three orders valued at $425 thousand, and Redstone Research, LLC held one order for $396 thousand. No set-asides were used; all nine orders were unrestricted competitive.

The VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center (CSPCRPCC) conducts clinical studies at VA facilities and associated non-VA facilities throughout the United States. To ensure the trials follow Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Clinical Research Quality Associate (CRQA) services are required. The VA has awarded a Master IDIQ contract to provide clinical trial site monitoring services for the research program based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.