R605--Quality Compass Subscription Recompete

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 issued a sole-source Special Notice on September 23, 2026, announcing intent to procure a Quality Compass subscription license from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), with responses due September 28, 2026, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. The VA justified sole sourcing under FAR 6.103-1, asserting NCQA's proprietary benchmarking tool has no equivalent competitor due to its unique health plan accreditation mechanisms and granular data specificity required for VHA performance analysis. Quality Compass provides up to three years of trended HEDIS-based measure data, customizable reporting, data exporter functionality, and individual plan submission data with confidence intervals, enabling the VA to compare VHA care delivery against private sector metrics and fulfill MISSION Act of 2018 and Commission on Care benchmarking mandates. The contract is structured as Firm Fixed Price with a twelve-month base year and four optional twelve-month renewal periods. The license grants non-exclusive, non-transferable access to Commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare products with specified usage restrictions: maximum thirty HEDIS Measure Indicators shareable externally per performance period, no more than two averages or percentiles per indicator, and maximum twenty health plan product rates publishable. Any responsible source may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation with company name, CAGE code, SAM UEI, Dun & Bradstreet number, address, point of contact, and applicable GSA contract information to ronald.shelko@va.gov and michelle.rhodes@va.gov. Solicitation number is 36C24C26Q0039; NAICS 519290; SBA size standard 1,000 employees.