Department of Veterans Affairs
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Protests
Missing JV Certification Ends VA Caribbean Janitorial Protest; Counsel Draws AI-Citation Sanctions Warning
GAO denied OS-DB-JV-2's protest of a VA Caribbean Healthcare System janitorial contract after the SDVOSB joint venture omitted a required JV certification. The ruling also warned outside counsel about submitting four fabricated case citations that bore the hallmarks of AI generation — continuing a growing record of GAO decisions addressing unver...
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Protests
VA T4NG Task Order Holds After Price Realism Challenge Fails at GAO
GAO denied and dismissed DexteriTech's protest of a $21.9M VA T4NG task order awarded to Client First Technologies, ruling that fixed-price solicitations without an explicit price realism provision cannot be challenged on realism grounds, regardless of the price gap's size.
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Protests
GAO Dismisses Gilchrist Law Firm Bid Protest Over Abandoned Arguments
GAO dismissed The Gilchrist Law Firm's bid protest against the VA's rejection of its late FOIA services proposal, after the protester failed to address the agency's core timeliness argument and effectively abandoned its grounds for protest.
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Policy
VA Releases $700 Billion Community Care Network Recompete — Award Expected August 2026
The VA's CCN Next Gen IDIQ (solicitation 36C10G26R0003) could reach $700B over 10 years, covering 9.1M enrolled veterans across all U.S. states and territories. IDIQ award is expected August 2026; regional task order awards follow in January 2027.
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Enforcement
Two Government Contractors Pay Over $3.6 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Over SDVOSB Set-Aside Fraud
Officium Global LLC and Loyal Source Government Services LLC will each pay more than $1.8 million to resolve False Claims Act and Contract Disputes Act allegations tied to seven VA SDVOSB set-aside contracts awarded between May 2017 and June 2018.
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Policy
GAO Warns VA's Acquisition Reorganization Could Miss the Mark Without Governance Discipline — 23 Open Recommendations, 15% Staff Cut
GAO's new report (GAO-26-108474) warns that VA's plan to centralize all procurement offices won't fix long-standing acquisition weaknesses on its own. With a 15% contracting-staff cut, 23 open recommendations, and no full plan as of February 2026, GAO urges five leading reform practices.
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Policy
White House 30-Day Update: Fixed-Price Contracting Executive Order Implementation Progress
The Office of Management and Budget issued a 30-day status report on executive order implementation requiring agencies to maximize fixed-price contract usage, showing mixed progress across civilian and defense agencies.
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Awards
Encore JV1 Wins $153M VA Contact Center Contract to Handle 1.57 Million Annual Veteran Inquiries
A joint venture of USParaLog and Government Technical Services Corp. beat out competitors for the VA Veterans Experience Office contact center staffing contract, covering 360-plus remote agents handling benefits questions, directory assistance, and VA.gov technical support.
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Awards
Palantir Wins $385M VA Contract to Build National Veterans Data Analytics Platform
The Department of Veterans Affairs selected Palantir Technologies over three competitors to deploy and operate the National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics Platform, integrating health data from VA, DoD, HHS, SSA, and IRS.
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Protests
Court of Federal Claims clears VA's $60.7B T4NG2 IT vehicle — Judge Silfen rules forfeiture defense controls
April 3, 2026 ruling allows VA's 10-year, $60.7B Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2 to proceed. 31 protests filed; Taurian, Technatomy, and Peregrine were added before the ruling.
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Awards
VA restarts Oracle EHR rollout at 4 Michigan sites — 9 more in 2026, $37B lifetime cost
After a three-year pause, the VA resumed its Oracle-Cerner electronic health record deployment in April 2026, starting with four Michigan health care systems. 9 additional sites scheduled for 2026 — total 13 live by year-end. Lifetime cost now estimated at $37B.
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Awards
VA's $60B T4NG2 cleared to launch — court denies all remaining protests, 33 vendors authorized
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims denied all remaining protests of the VA's $60 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2 (T4NG2) IDIQ in April 2026. 33 authorized vendors; primary VA IT-services vehicle for the next decade.
