Q505--Locum Gastroenterology (GI) Physician Services MSO-2026-COM-0017

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 seeks Board Certified or Board Eligible locum gastroenterology physician services at its South Texas Veterans Health Care System (Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas), with proposals due June 19, 2026. The procurement is an unrestricted fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract; an initial SDVOSB set-aside was removed by amendment on May 28, 2026 due to insufficient small businesses.

Place of performance is Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center (7400 Merton Minter Street, San Antonio, TX 78229-4404) and CHRISTUS Ambulatory Surgery Center. The base period runs August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2027, with four optional one-year extensions through July 31, 2031. The contract requires 4.5 full-time equivalents providing approximately 9,361 hours annually: on-site services (9,181 estimated hours), on-call availability (3,868 estimated hours), and callback services (180 estimated hours). The guaranteed minimum award is $17,500 with a not-to-exceed maximum of $17,500,000.

Physicians must maintain active, unrestricted medical licenses; current Board Certification in Gastroenterology through the American Board of Internal Medicine; and current Basic Life Support or Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification. Eight key personnel must be credentialed and available for scheduling. Services include colonoscopies, esophagogastroduodenoscopy procedures (diagnostic, with biopsies, with banding, with foreign body removal, with PEG placement, with bleeding treatment, with dilation), flexible sigmoidoscopies, consultative services, and clinical gastroenterology care within American College of Gastroenterology and American College of Physicians standards. ERCP and EUS are not required. Expected caseload is approximately 10 outpatient procedures daily (60:40 anesthesia-to-moderate sedation ratio) plus inpatient consults and 5–10 inpatient procedures daily; callback frequency averages four times monthly with emergency endoscopies approximately weekly.

Contractors must comply with extensive credentialing, privileging, security, and training requirements including annual mandatory training in EHR, patient safety, government ethics, suicide prevention, and infection control; standard infection control measures (TB testing, immunizations, Hepatitis B vaccination); and background investigation. All contractor personnel must sign Contractor Rules of Behavior acknowledging VA monitoring, recording, and auditing rights; comply with FIPS 140-2 encryption standards for VA sensitive information; and meet E-Verify and Immigration and Nationality Act compliance requirements. Organizational conflicts of interest must be certified.

NAICS is 621111, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), with a $16 million size standard. PSC is Q505, Medical–Gastroenterology. Invoicing occurs monthly in arrears via the Tungsten vendor payment system. The contracting officer is Carlos Jaquez (carlos.jaquez@va.gov), VHA RPO West–NCO 17, El Paso, Texas; the Contracting Officer's Representative is Ricardo J. Rodriguez, Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center Gastroenterology Service.