Upstate Emergency Medicine, Inc.

Upstate Emergency Medicine, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Syracuse, New York, supplies emergency department physicians to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor, operating under a single-award indefinite delivery contract model with no small-business set-asides. The vendor is a child entity of SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse (University Hospital) and competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements for direct federal healthcare delivery.

Upstate Emergency Medicine's federal footprint is tightly concentrated in emergency physician staffing for VA facilities in the central New York region. The vendor serves two customer entities — Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (VISN 2) and Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VISN 22) — which account for 89% of awards and 95% of combined potential value. VISN 2 dominates the portfolio with 20 awards valued at $23.5 million combined potential value, while VISN 22 holds 5 awards at $2.5 million. The vendor's capability work is uniformly classified under PSC Medical-Managed Healthcare (28 awards) and spans NAICS Offices of Physicians (17 awards) and Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (11 awards), reflecting its educational-affiliate delivery model through the parent SUNY Health Science Center.

The vendor operates under five parent indefinite delivery contracts with VA. The largest parent vehicle is IDC VA52813D0129, which has issued 7 task orders valued at $4.9 million combined potential value, followed by IDC 36C24219D0008 with 6 task orders at $3.4 million combined potential value. Recent work includes a $210.8 thousand delivery order issued August 1, 2026, for emergency department physician services through July 31, 2027, under a single-award IDC with a $1.3 million ceiling and performance period through July 31, 2029. Prior delivery orders under the same parent IDC were valued at $198.7 thousand (August 1, 2025–July 31, 2026) and $330.5 thousand (August 1, 2024–July 31, 2025). The vendor has held VA contract relationships continuously since at least 2006, with more than $3.8 million in cumulative federal awards over the past decade.

Activity is low-volume and flat across recent years — one award in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — reflecting the stability of long-term single-award IDC relationships rather than active competition. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, valued at $410 thousand combined potential value, suggesting minimal recompete pressure in the near term. The vendor operates as a pure prime (100% of awards) with no subcontract engagements; combined dollars obligated represent 44% of combined potential value, indicating conservative spending drawdown against awarded ceilings typical of healthcare staffing arrangements.