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R--Veteran Digital Services

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VA11814R0154Federal

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Technology Acquisition Center in Eatontown, New Jersey, plans to award a sole source Time-and-Materials contract to Nuna Incorporated for rapid response technical support related to Veteran Digital Services. This contract aims to provide a small team of senior specialists who can quickly deliver implementable technological solutions in critical areas such as web development, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. The services will focus on advancing initiatives like the benefits wizard, AI-driven claims parsing, enterprise-wide digital platform development, and enhancement of digital offerings for veterans. Due to the urgent need to address the backlog of veterans' benefits claims, these technical solutions are required immediately. This procurement is being conducted under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-1, allowing for other than full and open competition since only one responsible source can meet the VA’s specific requirements. The NAICS code for this contract is 541511, with a size standard of $25 million. The pre-solicitation notification was posted on March 31, 2014, and the comment and question period closed on April 14, 2014. Communications regarding the contract are directed to Contract Specialist Cara DiNocera and Contracting Officer Charles W. Ross via email. The contract supports the VA’s mission to enhance and expedite digital services that assist veterans effectively and efficiently.

General Info

VA awards sole source contract to Nuna for rapid technical support in veteran digital services.

Agency

Department Of Veterans Affairs → Technology Acquisition Center Nj (36C10B)

Contract Value

$2,382,167.66

NAICS

541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services

Place of Performance

NJ, USA

Set-Aside

NONE

Awardee

NUNA INC

Award Issued Date

06/10/2014, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Documents

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Timeline

PhaseAwarded

PostedMar 31

Presolicitation

AwardedJun 10

Contract was awarded

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyDepartment Of Veterans Affairs → Technology Acquisition Center Nj (36C10B)

ContactsNo contacts available

OfficeEATONTOWN, NJ, 07724, USA

Organization / AgencyDepartment Of Veterans Affairs → Technology Acquisition Center Nj (36C10B)

Office AddressEATONTOWN, NJ, 07724, USA

ContactsNo contact information available

Full Description

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Acquisition Operations, Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown, New Jersey, intends to enter into a contract on a basis of other than full and open competition for VA Central Office (VACO) in conjunction with the Office of Information Technology (OIT). The TAC intends to award a sole source, Time-and-Materials (T&M) contract to Nuna Incorporated, 3719 16th Street, San Francisco, California, 94114 for a rapid response support team capable of quick turnaround of a variety of technical services for research, development and support of Veteran Digital Services. This rapid response team will be composed of a small number of senior technologists who can provide immediate turnaround of implementable solutions to VA on high priority issues pertaining to digital services. Specifically, the technical services include targeted application of a wide variety of web development, cloud, big data, and artificial intelligence technologies such as Ruby on Rails, rspec, Hadoop, Lucene, Cassandra, Flume, Bootstrap, Foundation, Puppet and Mahout to enable rapid development and testing of cutting edge applications involving potentially large amounts of data. These technologies will be applied to Veteran Digital Services topics such as benefits wizard development and support, artificial intelligence claims parsing development, web-based enterprise-wide digital platform development and Veteran Digital Services enhancement and analysis. VA requires these technical services as soon as possible due to the critical need to reduce the Veteran's benefits claims backlog. The Statutory Authority for this effort falls under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 6.302-1 entitled, "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements." The primary North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is 541511 size standard of $25M. This notification shall close on April 14, 2014. Questions/responses shall be submitted via e-mail to Contract Specialist, Cara DiNocera, contact@example.gov with the subject line as the synopsis number, VA118-14-R-0154. The Point of Contacts (POCs) for this action are Cara DiNocera, Contract Specialist, contact@example.gov and Charles W. Ross, Contracting Officer, contact@example.gov.