Wonder where this VA procurement ends up - good, bad or ugly.

There are many odd appearing actions. But this one is really surprising to me. VA just released a new solicitation for Community Managed Healthcare. The resulting contracts are for 10 years in duration valued at $1 trillion. The solicitation is for commercial items using a combined solicitation/synopsis. There are approximately 40 attachments.

https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/7b2734002e4048bfa2ac4cc5b0479930/view

The synopsis says “The Government will award a Firm-Fixed Price plus Incentives, Multiyear, Multiple Award, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract resulting from this solicitation to the Offerors whose proposal conforms to the solicitation and represents the best value to the government.”

The proposal response time seems very compressed. The synopsis was posted four days ago. Offeror questions are due Jan 6 with a pre proposal conference on Jan 22. Proposals are due March 15.

A trillion dollar procurement using a combined solicitation/synopsis with a 90 day proposal due date! Then there’s the contract type of firm-fixed-price plus incentives multiple award IDIQ!