FY27 Service - Language Interpretation Services (Base + 4)

Updated Nov 4, 2026

Sources Sought from the Department of Veterans Affairs, for work in New York, New York. Due Nov 10, 2026, 12:00 PM (UTC-5), 6 days left.

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Federal prevailing wage rates for this place: New York Davis-Bacon and SCA wage determinations.

Description

This is a "REQUEST FOR INFORMATION" only. This Sources Sought Notice is not a request for formal proposals or quotes. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and does not obligate the Government to award a contract.

Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. Responses to this Sources Sought must be in writing to Contracting Officer Taylor Richter, [email protected], no later than 11/10/2026 at 12:00 pm EST. Telephone inquiries shall not be accepted.

Responses to this notice shall include the following: (a) company name (b) address (c) point of contact (d) phone and email (e) DUNS/SAM UEI number (f) Cage Code (g) Tax ID Number (h) type of small business, e.g. SDVOSB, VOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, Women Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, or Small Business HUBZone business and (i) must provide a capability statement that addresses the organizations qualifications and ability to perform as a contractor for the work described below.

The New York Harbor Healthcare System (423 E 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010) has a requirement for a contractor to provide professional on-demand language interpretation services through qualified interpreters via telephone/video remote interpretation platforms to include telephone, video remote, medical and emergency interpretation services 24 hours/7 days a week and on Federal Holidays and weekends.

The period of performance is anticipated to be one year (1) from award with four (4) subsequent option years. General: The contractor shall provide medical language interpreting and translation services for the minimum languages: Achi, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afghani, Afrikaans, Akan, Akateko, Albanian, American Sign Language, Amharic, Anuak, Apache, Arabic, Arabic (Iraq), Arabic (Juba), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Sudan), Arabic (Yemen), Arakanese, Armenian, Armenian (Western), Assamese, Assyrian, Awakatek, Azeri (Cyrillic), Azeri (Latin), Bambara, Bangala, Bashkir, Basque, Bassa, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Blackfoot (Canada), Bosnian, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Braille, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cameroonian Pidgin English, Cantonese, Cape Verdean Creole, Carolinian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Alaskan Yupik, Chaldean, Chamorro, Chavacano, Cherokee, Chichewa, Chin, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Trad-Hong Kong), Choctaw, Chui Chow, Chuj, Chuukese, Cree (Canada), Croatian, Crow, Czech, Dakota, Danish, Dari, Dene, Dinka, Divehi, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Dzongkha, Eastern Mari, Eastern Karenni, Eastern Manainka, Eastern Mari, Edo, English (Australia), English (Belize), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (Jamaica), English (New Zealand), English (Philippines), English (Singapore), English (South Africa), English (UK), English (US), English (Zimbabwe), Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Falam, Falam Chin, Fante, Faroese, Farsi, Fiji Hindi, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French (Africa), French (Belgium), French (Burundi), French (Cameroon), French (Canada), French (Congo), French (France), French (Guinea), French (Haiti), French (Ivory Coast), French (Luxembourg), French (Madagascar), French (Morocco), French (Switzerland), French (Tunisia), French (West Africa), Frisian, Fukienese, Fula, Fulfulde, Fuzhou, Ga, Galician, Garifuna, Georgian, German, German (Austria), German (Belgium), German (Liechtenstein), German (Pennsylvania), German (Switzerland), Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Guyanese, Haitian Creole, Hakka Chin, Hakka (China), Hakka (Taiwan), Haryanvi, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Hunanese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Ilonggo, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Inupiak, Iraqi, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Italian (Switzerland), Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Jarai, Javanese, Kaqchikel, Karen, Karenni (Kayah Li), Karenni (Latin), Karenni (Myanmar), Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kekchi, Khmer, Kibembe, Kifulero, Kikuyu, Kinyamulenge, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kituba, Kizigua, Korean, Kosovan, Kosraean, Kpelle, Krio, Kuku, Kunama, Kurdish (Arabic), Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kurdish (Latin), Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Lai Hakha, Lakota, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Maay Maay, Macedonian, Maithili, Malagasy, Malayalam, Maltese, Mam, Mandinka (Arabic), Mandinka (Latin), Maori, Mano, Marathi, Marshallese, Mende, Michif, Mien, Mi'kmaq, Mixteco, Mizo, Moldovan, Mon, Mongolian, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Montenegrin (Cyrillic), Montenegrin (Latin), Mossi, Nahuatl, Navajo, Nepali, Nigerian Pidgin English, Norwegian, Norwegian (Bokmaal), Nuer, Ojibway, Oriya, Oromo, Palauan, Papiamento, Pashto, Patois, Pinyin, Plautdietsch, Pohnpeian, Polish, Poqomochi, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Guinea-Bissau), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Pushtu, Quechua, Quiche, Rade, Rohingya (Arabic), Rohingya (Latin), Romani, Romanian, Russian, Saint Lucian Creole, Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Saraiki, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Sesotho, Setswana, Shanghainese, Shona, Sidaama, Sindhi, Sinhala, Siswati, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Soninke, Sorani, Spanish, Stoney (Canada), Sudanese, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swedish, Swedish (Finland), Sylheti, Syriac, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Tedim Chin, Telugu, Temne, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Toishanese, Tongan, Trique, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Tzotzil, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Yaquil, Yavapal, Yiddish (Israel), Yiddish (other), Yiddish (US), Yoruba, Yucateco, Yupik, Zarma, Zulu.

The NAICS Code is 541930 Translation and Interpretation Services with a Small Business size standard of $22.5 million. SDVOSB/VOSB vendors shall be registered in SBA. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the New York Harbor Healthcare System.

Contracting contact

• Taylor Richter · Contracting Officer · [email protected] · (716) 862-7461 x24868

As published on the official notice. Ask questions in writing and before any questions deadline the notice sets.

Is your business small enough?

For NAICS 541930, a business counts as small if it has no more than $22.5 million in average annual receipts (SBA size standard). This notice is not set aside, but the size decides your small business status on it. SBA table, current as of Oct 15, 2026.

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• TCS Interpreting, Inc. $2.4 million in this trade

About the buyer

The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded $84.6 billion in contracts in the last 12 months; its biggest suppliers were Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc., Mckesson Corporation and Triwest Healthcare Alliance Corp. See what VA is buying now.

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