Q521--Portable Home Sleep Apnea Testing

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The Department of Veteran Affairs, Phoenix VA Health Care System located at 650 East Indian School Road, Phoenix AZ 85012 anticipates continued and increased emphasis for home sleep testing as we transition clinical programs involving greater use of alternatives to face-to-face medicine. The pertinent excerpt of the referenced communication is below:
Non-urgent pulmonary/sleep procedures should be deferred to minimize unnecessary risk to patients. These include, but are not limited to pulmonary function testing, 6-minute walk tests, methacholine challenge testing, surveillance bronchoscopy, in-person pulmonary rehabilitation, lung cancer screening, and polysomnography.

Important information: The Government is not obligated to, nor will it pay for or reimburse any costs associated with responding to this source sought synopsis request. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. The Government will in no way be bound to this information if any solicitation is issued. The VA is mandated by Public Law 109-461 to consider a total set-aside for Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business set aside. However, if response by Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business firms proves inadequate, an alternate set-aside or full and open competition may be determined. No sub-contracting opportunity is anticipated. The North American Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 339112 (1000 employees).

Notice to potential offerors: All offerors who provide goods or services to the United States Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov and complete Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA). Additionally, all Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses or Veteran Owned Businesses who respond to a solicitation on this project must be registered with the SBA-Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) Registry located at https://dsbs.sba.gov. All interested Offerors should submit information by e-mail to felicia.simpson@va.gov All information submissions to be marked Attn: Felicia Simpson, Contract Specialist and should be received no later than 10:00 am MST on May 6, 2026.

The Phoenix VA Health Care System (PVAHCS) anticipates continued and increased emphasis for home sleep testing as we transition clinical programs involving greater use of alternatives to face-to-face medicine. The pertinent excerpt of the referenced communication is below:
Non-urgent pulmonary/sleep procedures should be deferred to minimize unnecessary risk to patients. These include, but are not limited to pulmonary function testing, 6-minute walk tests, methacholine challenge testing, surveillance bronchoscopy, in-person pulmonary rehabilitation, lung cancer screening, and polysomnography.

In addition, home sleep testing increases the access to care to rural and aging veterans that are unable to complete an in-lab sleep study as well as provide timely diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.

Providers should consider empiric treatments and alternative diagnostic modalities that do not require in-person visits (e.g., home sleep testing) while these procedures are deferred. To assist as we shift to alternatives to face-to-face clinical care, the contractor shall provide the PVAHCS as ordered, the type III home sleep study testing devices to our Veteran population through a mail order service. The contractor shall prepare the type III home sleep testing device per the instructions of the patient s provider and then ship it to the patient. The contractor shall provide phone service to support the Veteran in the use of the type III home sleep study device on the scheduled test day to review test instructions. After the patient completes the test in their own home, the Veteran will upload the device to the Contractor s site the next day using the contractor s application through Bluetooth or ship the device back to the contractor per their instruction for the device to be downloaded. Once the device is downloaded, the contractor shall upload the test results to a cloud-based server, where the referring physician can retrieve it for evaluation. The device and software need to be compatible with the VA National Somnoware program used for the VA for the interpretation by the reading providers and with VA EHR.

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