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Contract Specialist April Bloom april.bloom@va.gov

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Background Request for Information (RFI) 36C10X23Q0083 – VHA Integrated Staffing Program was released February 28, 2023. The purpose of the RFI was to perform market research to better understand industry capabilities to broadly fulfill clinical, non-clinical, and program support temporary staffing needs within the Veterans Health Administration. Question B4 of the RFI presented the following:

B4. When facing similar challenges where national reach, breadth and depth of capability and experience, and integration of diverse skillsets were necessary, VA has successfully deployed innovative, large-scale Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract solutions that included contract awards to multiple teams comprised of prime contractor (experienced integrator) and dozens of subcontractors (individual firms). Led by an SDVOSB prime contractor that coordinated with dozens of formal teaming partners (SDVOSBs, VOSBs, small businesses, large business partners, universities, and non-profit organizations), each team combined their reach and collective capabilities to tackle some of VHA’s largest professional service requirements. Figure 1 below depicts a representative team built using these principles.

Figure 1: Representative Integrated Team

When considering potential strategies to address worsening critical VHA staffing shortages, the Government anticipates that a similar encompassing solution may also require the establishment of vendor teams led by an expert integrator (prime contractor). To be a viable solution, prime contractors would require access to national healthcare recruiting companies, health professional training programs, medical specialty societies, credentialing and privileging, and recruitment process outsourcing companies.

To provide insight in the area, please describe examples as a prime or subcontractor involving work related to the LGD that required reach back and integration with the specialty providers listed above. Please provide size, scope, duration, and level of complexity for each example; specifically include:

0. Managing sizable vendor teams with national spread/reach

0. Managing interdisciplinary staffing teams

0. Contract management with numerous subcontractors, efficiency in invoicing

Respondent Contact Information To aid in the teaming arrangements depicted in the Question B4 integrated team concept, the Government is sharing interested respondent contact information. The following RFI respondents have made their contact information available and agreed to sharing with industry:

Now What?

1. Industry partners (Clinical/ Non-Clinical/ Program Staffing and Recruiting firms) interested in participation in a formal, future solicitation competition should consider using this list and other sources when assembling teams for future proposals (assuming an integrated teaming approach is required in the future solicitation).

1. Monitor SAM.gov for future related Industry engagement events, including formal information on a day of ‘Conversations on VHA Workforce Strategies’, tentatively planned for on May 2, 2023, in Washington, DC.

1. If you’re a Staffing or Recruiting firm that did not respond to the initial RFI, but would like your contact information included in any future distribution, please email the following information to April Bloom (april.bloom@va.gov), David Warnert (david.warnert@va.gov), and Dennis Rogers (dennis.rogers4@va.gov) by April 17, 2023 COB.

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