Justification for Sole Source Award Summary

This is a Justification for a Sole Source Award document for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

The VA's Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (OBVAMC) in Shreveport, Louisiana requires installation, implementation, and customization of Discharge Care Plan software. The contracting activity is the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics, Technology Acquisition Center, located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown, NJ 07724. The proposed award is a firm-fixed-price sole source contract with Engineered Care, Inc. for the Engineered Care Patient Care Plan (or equal) solution. The contract period of performance runs from August 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027, with two optional 12-month extension periods. The total estimated contract value is redacted but includes all option periods. The license grant permits the VA to make and use a reasonable number of copies for testing, backup, archival, and disaster recovery purposes, as well as copies of documentation for internal training, support, and deployment.

The statutory authority for this sole source award is 41 U.S.C. § 1903 under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), which permits solicitation from one source when circumstances deem only one source reasonably available. Market research conducted in February 2026, April 2026, and June 2026 confirmed that Engineered Care, Inc. is the exclusive commercial licensee of Project Green Light and the only known company capable of meeting the VA's unique functional requirements for discharge care planning software. The Government's efforts to obtain competition through searches of NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP), commercial databases, and an RFI posted on SAM.gov on June 23, 2026 yielded no viable alternative sources. The Government will continue to conduct market research for future opportunities to enable competition.