B537--Notice of Intent to Sole Source Research and Development Subject Matter Expert Services

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Ann Arbor VA Medical Center intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, with Harvard Medical School for Research and Development Subject Matter Expert Services in support of the VA funded research study: Assessing Quality of VA and Community Care in the MISSION Era. The Ann Arbor VAMC requires the subject matter expertise of the Harvard researchers to adapt/translate a set of claims-based measures developed by Harvard for use in Medicare data to VA data. The researchers at Harvard are the sole known developers and providers of the claims-based measure algorithms required for this study, which are not available to the public commercially or from any other known vendor at this time.

This is a notice of intent and is not a request for competitive quotes; however, any responsible source who can provide an equivalent service with the features described above, may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Thursday, June 22, 2023, 7:00 PM, EDT. Interest/capability statements which specifically detail how your service meets the requirement may be sent to Shannon Hukriede at shannon.hukriede@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.