IHS Temporary Primary Care Physician Services 2010-2015

The Indian Health Service awarded this Master IDIQ for area-wide temporary primary care physician services on September 22, 2010, with ordering closed on October 31, 2015. The vehicle is no longer active; no new task orders may be placed against it.

The vehicle contracted temporary physician staffing across multiple specialties including family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics. Task orders funded clinical coverage at IHS hospitals and health centers across the Plains and Northern Plains regions, including facilities in South Dakota and North Dakota such as Eagle Butte, Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Fort Totten, and Rapid City. Pricing was firm fixed price with hourly rates typically ranging from approximately $128 to $139 per hour for physician services spanning weeks to several months per task order.

Activity concentrated heavily in the 2011–2013 window. The vehicle generated 203 task orders with ordering momentum peaking at 62 orders in 2011, then declining to 20 orders by 2014 before the ordering period closed. Combined potential value across all task orders was $8.3 million, fully obligated.

Competition was heavily concentrated between two primes. The Healing Staff, Inc. held 166 orders valued at $7 million combined potential, representing approximately 82 percent of task-order count and 84 percent of combined potential value. Gpa-Hrsa Inc. held the remaining 37 orders and $1.3 million, approximately 18 percent of count and 16 percent of value. No other vendors received awards under the vehicle.

All 203 task orders funded the Indian Health Service; no other agencies placed orders. All task orders were unrestricted procurements with no set-aside designations. Task-order values typically ranged from approximately $10,000 to $150,000 when obligated, corresponding to staffing periods of two to four months. The most recent task order was awarded on August 28, 2014, and the last orders obligated funds as the vehicle wound down in 2014 and early 2015.

Master IDIQ for area wide temporary primary care physician services.