Against a backdrop of high anticipation, the Veterans Affairs Department is now ready for industry to start working on and turning in bids for the recompete of its go-to health care modernization contract vehicle.

Proposals for the potential 10-year, $14 billion Integrated Healthcare Transformation 2.0 vehicle are due April 3. The Veterans Health Administration is also requiring what it calls “proposal intentions” by 12 p.m. Eastern time on March 27, VHA said in its Monday notice to release the final solicitation.

Those mandatory statements of intent are for the first phase in what will be a two-step advisory downselect process that will eventually result in six awards to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.

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