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This is a Sources Sought Notice (Request for Information) issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office on behalf of the New York Harbor Healthcare System. The notice seeks information regarding potential contractors capable of providing professional on-demand language interpretation services via telephone and video remote interpretation platforms. Services must be available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, including Federal Holidays and weekends, and must encompass telephone, video remote, medical, and emergency interpretation capabilities. The contractor shall provide medical language interpreting and translation services for a minimum of approximately 300+ languages, including major and less commonly spoken languages such as Arabic (multiple dialects), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, and numerous others spanning African, Asian, European, and indigenous language families.
Responses to the Sources Sought Notice must be submitted in writing to Contracting Officer Taylor Richter at taylor.richter@va.gov no later than November 10, 2026, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. Required submission elements include company name, address, point of contact information, phone and email, DUNS/SAM UEI number, Cage Code, Tax ID Number, small business designation (if applicable, including SDVOSB, VOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, Women Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, or Small Business HUBZone), and a capability statement addressing organizational qualifications. The anticipated period of performance is one year from award with four subsequent option years. The NAICS Code is 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services) with a Small Business size standard of $22.5 million. The notice explicitly states that this is a request for information only and does not obligate the Government to award a contract. The place of performance is located at 423 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010.
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Sources Sought Notice Sources Sought Notice
| SUBJECT* |
| FY27 Service - Language Interpretation Services (Base + 4) |
GENERAL INFORMATION
| CONTRACTING OFFICE’S ZIP CODE* |
| 14215 |
| SOLICITATION NUMBER* |
| 36C24227Q0107 |
| RESPONSE DATE/TIME/ZONE |
| 11-10-2026 12:00 PM EASTERN TIME, NEW YORK, USA |
| ARCHIVE |
| 30 DAYS AFTER THE RESPONSE DATE |
| RECOVERY ACT FUNDS |
| N |
SET-ASIDE
| PRODUCT SERVICE CODE* |
| R608 |
| NAICS CODE* |
| 541930 |
| CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS |
| Department of Veterans Affairs |
Network Contracting Office (NCO) 2 3495 Bailey Avenue Building 3, 2nd floor Buffalo NY 14215
POINT OF CONTACT*
Contracting Officer Taylor Richter Taylor.Richter@va.gov
(716) 862-7461 x24868
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE
| ADDRESS |
| New York Harbor Healthcare System |
423 E 23rd Street
New York NY
| POSTAL CODE |
| 10010 |
| COUNTRY |
| USA |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
| AGENCY’S URL |
| https://www.va.gov |
| URL DESCRIPTION |
| Department of Veterans Affairs Website |
| AGENCY CONTACT’S EMAIL ADDRESS |
| Taylor.Richter@va.gov |
| EMAIL DESCRIPTION |
| Contracting Officer |
DESCRIPTION
This is a "REQUEST FOR INFORMATION" only. This Sources Sought Notice is not a request for formal proposals or quotes. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and does not obligate the Government to award a contract. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. Responses to this Sources Sought must be in writing to Contracting Officer Taylor Richter, taylor.richter@va.gov, no later than 11/10/2026 at 12:00 pm EST. Telephone inquiries shall not be accepted.
Responses to this notice shall include the following: (a) company name (b) address (c) point of contact (d) phone and email (e) DUNS/SAM UEI number (f) Cage Code (g) Tax ID Number (h) type of small business, e.g. SDVOSB, VOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, Women Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, or Small Business HUBZone business and (i) must provide a capability statement that addresses the organizations qualifications and ability to perform as a contractor for the work described below.
The New York Harbor Healthcare System (423 E 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010) has a requirement for a contractor to provide professional on-demand language interpretation services through qualified interpreters via telephone/video remote interpretation platforms to include telephone, video remote, medical and emergency interpretation services 24 hours/7 days a week and on Federal Holidays and weekends.
The period of performance is anticipated to be one year (1) from award with four (4) subsequent option years.
General:
1. The contractor shall provide medical language interpreting and translation services for the minimum languages: Achi, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afghani, Afrikaans, Akan, Akateko, Albanian, American Sign Language, Amharic, Anuak, Apache, Arabic, Arabic (Iraq), Arabic (Juba), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Sudan), Arabic (Yemen), Arakanese, Armenian, Armenian (Western), Assamese, Assyrian, Awakatek, Azeri (Cyrillic), Azeri (Latin), Bambara, Bangala, Bashkir, Basque, Bassa, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Blackfoot (Canada), Bosnian, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Braille, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cameroonian Pidgin English, Cantonese, Cape Verdean Creole, Carolinian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Alaskan Yupik, Chaldean, Chamorro, Chavacano, Cherokee, Chichewa, Chin, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Trad-Hong Kong), Choctaw, Chui Chow, Chuj, Chuukese, Cree (Canada), Croatian, Crow, Czech, Dakota, Danish, Dari, Dene, Dinka, Divehi, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Dzongkha, Eastern Mari, Eastern Karenni, Eastern Manainka, Eastern Mari, Edo, English (Australia), English (Belize), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (Jamaica), English (New Zealand), English (Philippines), English (Singapore), English (South Africa), English (UK), English (US), English (Zimbabwe), Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Falam, Falam Chin, Fante, Faroese, Farsi, Fiji Hindi, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French (Africa), French (Belgium), French (Burundi), French (Cameroon), French (Canada), French (Congo), French (France), French (Guinea), French (Haiti), French (Ivory Coast), French (Luxembourg), French (Madagascar), French (Morocco), French (Switzerland), French (Tunisia), French (West Africa), Frisian, Fukienese, Fula, Fulfulde, Fuzhou, Ga, Galician, Garifuna, Georgian, German, German (Austria), German (Belgium), German (Liechtenstein), German (Pennsylvania), German (Switzerland), Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Guyanese, Haitian Creole, Hakka Chin, Hakka (China), Hakka (Taiwan), Haryanvi, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Hunanese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Ilonggo, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Inupiak, Iraqi, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Italian (Switzerland), Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Jarai, Javanese, Kaqchikel, Karen, Karenni (Kayah Li), Karenni (Latin), Karenni (Myanmar), Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kekchi, Khmer, Kibembe, Kifulero, Kikuyu, Kinyamulenge, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kituba, Kizigua, Korean, Kosovan, Kosraean, Kpelle, Krio, Kuku, Kunama, Kurdish (Arabic), Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kurdish (Latin), Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Lai Hakha, Lakota, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Maay Maay, Macedonian, Maithili, Malagasy, Malayalam, Maltese, Mam, Mandinka (Arabic), Mandinka (Latin), Maori, Mano, Marathi, Marshallese, Mende, Michif, Mien, Mi'kmaq, Mixteco, Mizo, Moldovan, Mon, Mongolian, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Montenegrin (Cyrillic), Montenegrin (Latin), Mossi, Nahuatl, Navajo, Nepali, Nigerian Pidgin English, Norwegian, Norwegian (Bokmaal), Nuer, Ojibway, Oriya, Oromo, Palauan, Papiamento, Pashto, Patois, Pinyin, Plautdietsch, Pohnpeian, Polish, Poqomochi, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Guinea-Bissau), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Pushtu, Quechua, Quiche, Rade, Rohingya (Arabic), Rohingya (Latin), Romani, Romanian, Russian, Saint Lucian Creole, Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Saraiki, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Sesotho, Setswana, Shanghainese, Shona, Sidaama, Sindhi, Sinhala, Siswati, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Soninke, Sorani, Spanish, Stoney (Canada), Sudanese, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swedish, Swedish (Finland), Sylheti, Syriac, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Tedim Chin, Telugu, Temne, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Toishanese, Tongan, Trique, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Tzotzil, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Yaquil, Yavapal, Yiddish (Israel), Yiddish (other), Yiddish (US), Yoruba, Yucateco, Yupik, Zarma, Zulu.
The NAICS Code is 541930 – Translation and Interpretation Services with a Small Business size standard of $22.5 million. SDVOSB/VOSB vendors shall be registered in SBA. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the New York Harbor Healthcare System.
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