The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Strategic Investment Management (SIM) has a continuing requirement for Business Architecture/Business Reference Architecture Services.

The functional component areas the contractor shall support in this IDIQ are: Director’s Office (Advisory, and Program/Project Management), Strategy and Planning, Operations and Quality Assurance, Integration and Reference Architecture, Process and Value Architecture, and Information and Knowledge Architecture. This includes both professional and technical health information services in support of BA and VA/VHA program offices. The types of services represented under this IDIQ PWS are:

1. Business process modeling and Process and Value architecture services,
2. Business information modeling and Information and Knowledge architecture services,
3. Integration and Reference architecture services,
4. Internal and external information exchange (e.g., analysis, issues, updates, trends),
5. Subject matter expert advice for all functional component areas,
6. Decision support services for collaboration efforts,
7. Participation on working groups or teams,
8. Architect, program, and project management services to assist in planning, initiating, managing, executing, and closing out work efforts or projects,
9. Interoperability advisory services (e.g., Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM), Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT), Supply Chain/VALOR, Defense Health Agency (DHA)/VHA collaboration work, VA/VHA Modernization, Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM), and other VA/DoD interoperability work efforts)
10. Health Care Delivery analysis and design,
11. Health information strategic planning,
12. Strategic requirements analysis and alignment,
13. Assessments of current and emerging industry or federal standards,
14. Independent assessments of VHA and VA business products and services for gaps or deficiencies,
15. Development and delivery of executive briefings and presentations to senior management on VHA emerging health technology change management, strategy, and other architectural artifacts
16. Internal and external collaboration planning
17. Tooling configuration management and quality assurance activities
18. Coordination of BA Communications including publications and outreach, and
19. Services in support of VHA’s BA lifecycle

Additionally, the architecture domain areas that shall be supported by this IDIQ are categorized and depicted in the following list and figures:

The VHA Capability and Service Architecture domains are:

1. Care Delivery Capabilities
2. Care Coverage Capabilities
3. Patient Management Capabilities
4. Health Business Services
5. Health IT Services