Brand Name or Equal DistillerSR Cloud-Based Literature Review Platform Software as a Service Support and Training

The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center Austin is issuing a Request for Information for market research on a brand name or equal DistillerSR cloud-based, AI-augmented literature review platform, delivered as Software as a Service with support and training, with responses due November 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time per the RFI (the listing shows November 5, 2026). No set-aside is used. This is a planning-only RFI and does not commit the government to a solicitation or award.

The platform serves the VA Evidence Synthesis Program across five ESP Centers in Durham, North Carolina; Los Angeles, California; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; and Providence, Rhode Island. The period of performance is 60 months: one 12-month Base Period and four 12-month Option Periods. The platform must support up to 500 concurrent projects per ESP Center (2,500 total) with AI reference processing and 99.5% system availability.

Required functions include automated reference ingestion, citation deduplication, title/abstract and full-text screening, AI-assisted data extraction, risk-of-bias assessment, full-text retrieval from PubMed Central and DOI.org, machine translation for non-English content, and complete audit trails. Within 30 days of award, the contractor must deliver five online onboarding programs and a Platform Launch Program. Compliance requirements include SSO integration with VA's Identity Provider, FICAM, IPv6, Section 508, and AI requirements under Executive Orders 13960 and 14319 and OMB Memorandums M-25-21, M-25-22, and M-26-04. Custom code and data carry unlimited government rights under the SHARE IT Act. Standard support runs 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, excluding 11 federal holidays; extended hours (8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST) are an optional purchasable item.

Responses require business size and status, NAICS codes, UEI, socioeconomic data, existing vehicles (GWAC, FSS, MAC), whether at least 50 percent of performance costs go to the respondent's employees or other eligible SDVOSB/VOSB concerns, a technical approach summary of no more than 5 pages addressing PWS Section 5, and rough order of magnitude pricing. Marketing materials and generic capability statements are not permitted. Questions are due November 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM EST to Contract Specialist Tianna Woods and Contracting Officer Lori L. Walker. The listing carries NAICS 513210 and PSC DA10.