$25B VA professional services contract hit with protests
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By
Nick Wakeman
Three companies are challenging how the VA evaluated their bids to join the vehicle called VECTOR.
Several companies are challenging their elimination from the on-ramp competition to join a large, multiple-award professional services contract at the Department of Veteran Affairs.
The Veteran Enterprise Contracting for Transformation and Operational Readiness is a professional services vehicle with a $25 billion ceiling. A total of 68 service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses won a place on the contract in 2017.
Earlier this year, the VA carried out an on-ramp that resulted in awards to 11 companies. We confirmed four of them in late November.
The original round of awards in 2017 had categories of services: management, oversight and improvement, analysis, training, outreach, supply chain, and human resources and staffing.
On-ramp awards only covered the areas of management, oversight and outreach.
Sprezzatura Management Consulting, JSToogood Kizano Corp are the protestors challenging the VA's evaluation of their bids for the on-ramp.
The Government Accountability Office's bid protest docket indicates a decision is due during the first two weeks of March 2023.