G099--Sources Sought: SFVAHCS HCHV CERS Program

Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 within the Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting a sources sought to inform its procurement decision for emergency residential services serving homeless veterans in San Francisco, with responses due by May 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time. The Government seeks a community-based contractor to operate the Health Care for Homeless Veterans Contract Emergency Residential Services (CERS) Program at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

Place of performance is San Francisco, California, with preference for the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. The contractor must provide 24/7 safe and secure housing, meals, personal hygiene supplies, laundry services, medication storage, and clinical case management services including assistance with permanent housing placement, mental health stabilization, substance use disorder treatment support, vocational training, and income assistance to eligible homeless veterans. Staffing must include a full-time program manager available 24/7, a professionally credentialed clinician (CADC, LCSW, PhD, PsyD, LMFT, or LPCC), and case managers at a recommended ratio of one per 20 veterans during business hours. The program operates nine residential beds for 3,585 bed-days per ordering period and must maintain a minimum 80% occupancy rate, achieve 55% or higher exits to permanent housing, and maintain negative exits at 20% or less.

The contract term runs five years beginning November 1, 2026, divided into five one-year ordering periods through October 31, 2031. NAICS code is 624229 with a $19 million small business size threshold. Invoicing is submitted monthly on a per-diem rate basis for occupied beds. Interested vendors must submit company information, UEI, socio-economic status, estimated pricing, and a capability statement via email to joshua.barrios@va.gov by the deadline. Small business contractors are subject to a 50 percent subcontracting cost limitation.