Every GovConFeed story on Department of Veterans Affairs — contract awards, policy, enforcement, and protests, newest first.
A Court of Federal Claims judge upheld the VA's cancellation of a $4 million New Jersey homeless-veterans services solicitation in Patriot First v. United States, but found the agency's reliance on Amendment 0006 arbitrary and warned against reusing it in the replacement solicitation.
Read the story →GAO could not verify whether DOGE teams protected sensitive data at CFPB, Education, NOAA, SEC, SBA and VA after the agencies withheld records. SEC and NOAA challenged GAO's authority. GAO says its access rights are clear.
A GovConFeed analysis of USAspending.gov records finds agencies obligated $520.9 billion on contracts from October through May, $95.8 billion more than in the same eight months a year earlier. Customs and Border Protection went from $1.9 billion to $25.7 billion.
How the four SBA contracting certifications compare: 8(a)'s nine-year sole-source runway, HUBZone's 35% residency rule and 10% price preference, WOSB's NAICS-limited set-asides, and post-VetCert SDVOSB — with current FAR sole-source thresholds, common application mistakes, and how the programs stack.
CACI NSS won a six-year, up to $308.5M VA contract to operate and modernize the department's iFAMS financial platform, replacing legacy infrastructure and targeting audit-readiness gains.
GAO sustained a protest finding the VA illegally excluded contractor-performance records older than three years from a $2.4M acquisition-support-services evaluation, despite RFQ language allowing reduced-weight consideration of older data.
GAO sustained Veterans Management Services' protest of a VA Veterans Health Administration award, finding the agency wrongly treated discretionary solicitation language as a hard cutoff that excluded Exceptional-rated past-performance references from the tradeoff decision.
VA OIG found the PATS-R patient advocate system was miscategorized as low risk after a 2023 cloud migration, with 77% of users unaware they could access veterans' medical records. VA concurred with all five recommendations and raised the rating to moderate.
VA published a proposed rule eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations, replacing it with an intentional-discrimination standard under Executive Order 14281, with comments due July 27, 2026.
In Revelations Counseling & Consulting v. United States, the Court of Federal Claims upheld the VA's rejection of an SDVOSB proposal that paraphrased its compliance with the limitation on subcontracting but omitted the signed VAAR 852.219-75 certificate the solicitation demanded.
Sanford Federal, Inc. and owner Joseph Mandour agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the firm faked employee credentials and misrepresented its size to win set-aside work spanning 49 contracts and multiple agencies, DOJ said.
A June 25, 2026 VA OIG audit found medical facility staff failed to document the basis for buying pharmaceuticals on the open market instead of through the prime vendor contract, undercutting the program's leveraged pricing. OIG wants VHA to issue documentation guidance.
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