Questions to Vendors - 36C10G27Q0001.xlsx

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Attached to: R408--Health Care Actuarial Support Services
Solicitation number: 36C10G27Q0001
Issued by: Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters

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Written by GovTribe AI · Sep 29, 2026

This is a Request for Information (RFI) vendor questionnaire designed to assess industry capability for providing health care actuarial support services to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The solicitation number is 36C10G27Q0001, with NAICS code 524298 and Product Service Code R408. The RFI is issued by the VA Enterprise Procurement Office on behalf of the VHA's Strategic Planning Division and serves as market research to inform the procurement method and final Statement of Objectives (SOO) for this requirement.

The potential contract requires an actuarial consulting firm as prime vendor to provide health care actuarial support via consulting, modeling, and analytical services for five years (one base year plus four option years). Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining the VA Enrollee Health Care Projection Model (EHCPM), which produces twenty-year projections of Veteran enrollment, utilization, and costs at detailed fiscal-year levels supporting over 90 percent of VA's medical care budget. The contractor must support budget development, strategic planning, capital and workforce planning, policy analysis, and modeling that incorporates health care initiatives, infrastructure changes, policy impacts, legislative and regulatory requirements (including the MISSION Act and Honoring our PACT Act of 2022), and external events affecting the VA health care system. The questionnaire assesses vendor capabilities across multiple dimensions including business structure and certifications, NAICS code alignment, current government and VA contract experience, capacity for consulting hours and task deliverables, expertise in specific actuarial topics and deliverable areas (enrollment projections, morbidity transitions, unit cost development, regulatory impact analyses), access to health care benchmark data covering 30 million+ covered lives, staffing of credentialed actuaries (FSA and ASA), SAS programming capability, and experience with secure file transfer protocols. Responses were required no later than 2:00 PM on October 21 (year not specified in excerpt).

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RFI DATA ELEMENTS

The Strategic Planning Division (SPD) in the Veterans Health Administration requires an actuarial consulting firm as prime vendor to provide health care actuarial support via consulting, modeling, and analytical services for five years with a base year plus four option periods. Consultation requirements are unique to each task.

This potential effort is for actuarial consulting, analysis, and modeling services. The SPD and its actuarial consultant develop the VA Enrollee Health Care Projection Model (EHCPM) and other actuarial models to support development of the VA medical care budget, strategic, capital, and workforce planning, and policy analysis. VA is dependent on the EHCPM projections to support the development of more than 90 percent of the VA medical care budget. The EHCPM is used to provide insight on Veteran demand for VA health care and support VA leadership and stakeholders, including the Office of Management and Budget, Congress, the Government Accountability Office, Congressional Budget Office, and Veteran Service Organizations. The EHCPM produces twenty-year projections of Veteran enrollment, utilization, and costs at a very detailed level for each fiscal year. Tasks that support development of the EHCPM and other actuarial models involve collaboration between VHA, program offices, and contracted actuaries.

The VA health care system and the broader environment are continually changing, and the enrollment, utilization, and expenditure projections must reflect the impact of these changes. This requires that the VHA SPD and its actuarial consultants work closely with VA program offices, field staff, and researchers to incorporate their vision for the future delivery of health care services (e.g., Patient Aligned Care Team or PACT), the impact of health care initiatives (e.g., mental health), the impact of changes in VA’s infrastructure, and assess and incorporate the impact of proposed policies (e.g., cost sharing), legislation and regulations (e.g., the Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act and Honoring our PACT Act of 2022), and external events (e.g., economic recession and pandemic) on the VA health care system. Additionally, VA serves populations, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND) and women veterans, and provides services, such as mental health and long-term services and supports, that require specific consideration in the planning and execution of services. This task may require enhancements to the EHCPM structure, methodology, or supporting analyses to incorporate new or revised assumptions.

Additionally, VA is a dynamic health care system, with rapidly changing policies, direction, and leadership. VA requires actuarial support to meet demands for analysis, projection data, and adjustments to modeling to reflect new system priorities, structures, and approaches These tasks frequently result in assumptions that are input into the EHCPM.

As part of our market research effort, we are seeking input from industry to identify the ability of the commercial market to fulfill potential requirements.

Thank you for your participation.

	Company Information:
1	Please enter the following Point of Contact information:
	Name of Firm:
	Business Address:
	Point of Contact Name:
	POC Phone Number:
	City/Town:
	Company Address:
	State:
	Zip Code:
	Website URL address:
	Contact Email:
	Please provide your company's Unique Entity ID (UEI):
2	Please indicate your company's business structure:
	(select all that apply)
	Sole Proprietorship	FALSE
	Partnership	FALSE
	Limited Partnership	FALSE
	Limited Liability Company (LLC)	FALSE
	Corporation (For-Profit)	FALSE
	Nonprofit Corporation (Not-For-Profit)	FALSE
	Cooperative	FALSE
	Foreign-Entity Owned	FALSE
	State-Owned	FALSE
	Franchise/Subsidiary	FALSE
	Other, please specify:	FALSE
3	Please indicate any designations that describe your business:
	(select all that apply)
	Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)	FALSE
	Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB)	FALSE
	8(a) Business Development Small Business Certification	FALSE
	Alaskan Native Corporation (ANC)	FALSE
	Native Hawaiian Organization (NHO)	FALSE
	Tribally-Owned Concern (TOC)	FALSE
	HUBZone Business Concern	FALSE
	Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB in accordance with 19.1503)	FALSE
	Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB in accordance with 19.1503)	FALSE
	Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)	FALSE
	Small Business as per primary NAICS code 541611	FALSE
	Small Business as per primary NAICS code 524298	FALSE
	Large Business	FALSE
	Other, please specify:	FALSE
4	Identify which of the following NAICS codes your company uses to perform Actuarial Support Services:
	(select all that apply)
	518210 -- Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services	FALSE
	541611 -- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services	FALSE
	541499 -- All Other Business Support Services	FALSE
	541618 -- Other Management Consulting Services	FALSE
	541910 -- Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling	FALSE
	541990 -- All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services	FALSE
	524298 -- All Other Insurance Related Activities	FALSE
	Other, please specify:	FALSE

5	Is your company currently providing support to (Federal or State) government agencies?
	No	FALSE
	Yes. Please specify which agencies/offices:	FALSE

6	Does your company currently have a VA Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) or other VA contract for Actuarial Support Services?
	No	FALSE
	Yes. Please provide the contract number:	FALSE

7	Does your company currently have an active GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract for Actuarial Support Services?
	No	FALSE
	Yes. Please provide the contract number:	FALSE

8 Please identify the capacity (in hours and availability) your company has to provide Actuarial Support Services:

(select all that apply)

40,000 consulting hours per year	FALSE
Surge support to cover monthly consulting hour requirements ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 per month	FALSE
Cyclical work demand (varies from month-to-month)	FALSE
Ocassional weekend consultation	FALSE
Availability for consultation 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., ET, M-F	FALSE
Provide services on a nation-wide basis	FALSE
Provide on-site support in Washington, D.C., when required	FALSE
None of the Above	FALSE
Other, please specify:	FALSE

9	Please identify the quantity of tasks and deliverables your company could immediately supply to meet the need for Actuarial Support Services:
	(select all that apply)
	Meet 1,000+ tasks per year to produce actuarial models	FALSE
	Deliverables requirements of up to 100 per month	FALSE
	None of the Above	FALSE

10	Identify the topics and areas your company has analyzed through an Actuarial Support Services contract:
	(select all that apply)
	Health Care Trend Rate	FALSE
	Enrollment Policy	FALSE
	Women's Health	FALSE
	Impact of Economic Forecasts	FALSE
	Inpatient Efficiency	FALSE
	Outpatient Efficiency	FALSE
	Pharmacy Efficiency	FALSE
	Civilian Wage Policy	FALSE
	Pandemic Impacts	FALSE
	Dialysis and Related Services Reliance	FALSE
	Pipeline Drug Impact Policy	FALSE
	Long Term Services and Supports	FALSE
	Medicare Allowable Pricing	FALSE
	Health Care Overhead and Delivery Costs	FALSE
	Federal legislative and regulatory impacts	FALSE
	Other relevant experience. Please list at least one example:	FALSE

11	Identify areas in which your company has provided deliverables and consultation through an Actuarial Support Services contract:
	(select all that apply)
	Health care system enrollment projections	FALSE
	Morbidity transitions	FALSE
	Geographic migration	FALSE
	Mortality rates	FALSE
	Copay levels and adjustments	FALSE
	Geographic area adjustments	FALSE
	Age and gender adjustments	FALSE
	Inpatient efficiency analyses	FALSE
	Long term services and supports analyses	FALSE
	Morbidity birth year cohorts	FALSE
	Inpatient workload data	FALSE
	Outpatient workload data	FALSE
	Unit cost development	FALSE
	Work RVU projections	FALSE
	RVUs covering the entire range of healthcare services	FALSE
	Newborn care projections	FALSE
	Regulatory impact analyses	FALSE
	Community care access	FALSE
	None of the Above	FALSE
	Other, please specify:	FALSE

12	Please indicate the industry areas for which your company has performed Actuarial Support Services:
	(select all that apply)
	Dental	FALSE
	Insurance	FALSE
	Medical Healthcare	FALSE
	Other Medical	FALSE
	Pensions and benefits	FALSE
	Social Services	FALSE
	Other, please specify:	FALSE

13	How recent was your company's last Actuarial Support Services contract?
	Current	FALSE
	In last year	FALSE
	Two years	FALSE
	Three years	FALSE
	Four years	FALSE
	> Four years	FALSE

14	What was the duration of your company's last Actuarial Support Services contract, including option years?
	1 month to 1 year	FALSE
	1 year to 2 years	FALSE
	2 years to 3 years	FALSE
	3 years to 4 years	FALSE
	4 years to 5 years	FALSE
	5 years and up	FALSE

15 Please identify the detail at which your company has available, or has access to, health care benchmark data

Per capital health care costs	FALSE
Per capital utilization data	FALSE
Data broken down under age 65	FALSE
Data broken down age 65 and older	FALSE
Data broken down by gender	FALSE
Data broken down by geography	FALSE
Data broken down by service type (e.g., office visits, radiology, pathology, cardiovascular services)	FALSE
Identify primary source:	FALSE

16	Does your company's benchmark data include more than 30 million covered lives?
	Yes	FALSE
	No	FALSE
	Other: (provide details)	FALSE

17	Does your company have the ability to provide actuarial-based services as a prime vendor?
	Yes	FALSE
	No	FALSE

18	How many separate Actuarial Support Service efforts has your company supported in the past 3 years?
	None	FALSE
	1	FALSE
	2	FALSE
	3	FALSE
	4	FALSE
	5	FALSE
	> 5	FALSE
	Coordination of survey data sources for comparative analysis
19	If your company has experience coordinating data from disparate sources, how recent is that experience?
	Current	FALSE
	In last year	FALSE
	Two years	FALSE
	Three years	FALSE
	Four years	FALSE
	> Four years	FALSE
	Work with secure file transfer protocols (FTP)
20	Does your company have capacity to ensure secure file transfers?
	Yes	FALSE
	No	FALSE

21	Has your company provided customers with SAS datasets?
	Yes	FALSE
	No	FALSE
	Statistical consulting

22 Please identify the type of actuarial staff positions your company currently has available on staff:

(select all that apply)

FSA-credentialed Actuaries -- more than 10	FALSE
FSA-credentialed Actuaries -- 10 or fewer	FALSE
ASA-credentialed Actuaries -- more than 10	FALSE
ASA-credentialed Actuaries -- 10 or fewer	FALSE
Actuarial Support Staff	FALSE
SAS Programmers	FALSE
Other, please specify:	FALSE

23 Identify the types of experience held by your company's SAS Programming staff:

(select all that apply)

Company does not retain SAS programming staff	FALSE
Data analysis in multiple environments	FALSE
Database and web-based application development	FALSE
Support actuarial consulting staff	FALSE
Communication with customers for requirements development	FALSE
Other, please specify:	FALSE

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