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Acquisition Plan Action ID: 36C776-26-AP-1784
1. Contracting Activity: Department of Veterans Affairs, 2. Nature and/or Description of the Action Being Processed: This procurement is for renewal of an organizational membership and enterprise data license to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) DataDive™ benchmarking platform and associated datasets, in support of VHA-wide practitioner productivity benchmarking requirements. This acquisition is conducted in accordance with RFO Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services, which exempts acquisitions conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures from RFO 6.104 but requires a justification using the format of RFO 6.104-2. This action will be awarded as a new, firm-fixed-price contract for one base year with two one-year option periods. The estimated base year value is
3. Description of Supplies/Services Required to Meet the Agency’s Needs: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an MGMA Organizational Membership providing enterprise access to the most recent version of all MGMA DataDive™ surveys and datasets. The membership provides benchmarking data and statistics in the areas of physician compensation, staffing, cost and revenue, and CPT coding, as well as educational resources and best practices supporting continuous process improvement in clinic management. This contract enables VHA to implement the national policy mandated by 38 U.S.C. §§ 1706A and 8110(a)(3)(C) — which requires VA to monitor and assess specialty provider group practice staffing and productivity — under VHA Directive 1065. The MGMA DataDive™ platform provides the productivity targets, benchmarking data, and educational resources necessary to measure provider productivity across medical facilities and benchmark performance against industry standards. The membership directly supports VHA's Fiscal Responsibility Action Team (FRAT), and specifically FRAT Workstream 2.1 (Implement Enterprise Productivity Goals and Accountability Standards), which relies on MGMA productivity targets to enhance financial governance, optimize resource allocation, and drive cost efficiency across the organization. VHA's Governing Board has selected MGMA benchmarks as the basis for new productivity targets for VHA practitioners, established across the system via the Ready-Set-Go Campaign. VHA leadership at all levels relies on this data to