The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking eligible contractors to furnish External Clinical Peer Review Services for Quality Management aligned with the requirements in the attached draft performance work statement (PWS) and other applicable attachments included in this RFI. This RFI is for market research purposes and responses will be used to further develop the acquisition strategy for this requirement. Therefore, all responsible sources are highly encouraged to submit a capability statement in response to this RFI.

Capability statements should address the ability of your company to meet the requirements contained in the draft PWS and all other attachments in this RFI.

RFI Questions:

1. A peer review can take 1 to 3 hours to complete, and a medical advisory opinion can take 3 to 6 hours to complete, depending on the complexity.
   1. Do these time estimates align with your experience?
   2. How many clinical reviewers does your company/contractor team currently have that you estimate would be qualified and willing to perform such work?

2. What CLIN structure do you believe is best for the execution of this requirement?

3. Would it impact your decision whether or not to participate if the task order solicitation allowed for multiple awards?

4. What types of reviews outlined in the draft PWS is your company/contractor team able to provide such as peer reviews/audits, management reviews, and medical advisory opinions? Please provide detail as to which reviews your company/contractor team is able to complete.

5. The VA onboarding process takes an average of 6 weeks. In addition to the VA’s onboarding process, how long do you estimate it will take your company/contractor team to fully onboard new staff to include administrative staff and clinical reviewers? Such actions to include orientation, training, credentialing, and other administrative start-up requirements.

6. How many administrative staff does your company/contractor currently employ? If you participated in this task order, do you anticipate requiring more administrative staff to meet the requirement? Would the need for more administrative staff impact your decision whether or not to participate?

DISCLAIMER This Source Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this Source Sought notice that is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this Sources Sought notice.

Please see attached RFI documents:

1. RFI DRAFT PWS.

2. Attachment A:Specialties

3. Attachment A1: Historic Data

4. Attachment B: Contractor Onboarding Process

5. Attachment C: Draft QASP table

6. Attachment D: Workflow

7. Attachment E: Audit Review Template

8. Attachment E1: Example of Audit Review

9. Attachment E2: Example of Facility Requested Review

10. Attachment F: Management Review Request Template

11. Attachment F1: Example of Management Review

12. Attachment G: Medical Advisory Opinion Template

13. Attachment G1: Example of Medical Advisory Opinion

14. Attachment H: Clinical Appeals Template

15. Attachment H1: Example of Clinical Appeal

16. Attachment I: Example of Executive Summary

17. Attachment J: Example of Task Order Report

18. Attachment K: Inter-Rater Reliability Criteria

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