Q601--NEW - Medical Coding - 578

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 seeks offers to provide medical coding services for inpatient facility discharges and outpatient professional encounters at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois. Offerors must provide credentialed medical coders and all necessary resources to code approximately 59,700 outpatient encounters and 600 inpatient encounters annually in accordance with coding guidelines. The solicitation will award a fixed-price contract for coding services over five one-year ordering periods from February 2024 through January 2029. The most recent amendment extended the response deadline to December 27, 2023.

The NAICS code for this requirement is 561499 with a $21.5 million size standard. There is no set-aside designated. Offerors must provide unit prices to code the estimated annual quantities for evaluation. The primary place of performance is the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois. Amendments to the solicitation provided answers to questions and changed the NAICS code and size standard in response to a protest. The contracting agency is seeking to award a single contract for the entire five-year period of performance.