Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Innovation Ecosystem (VHAIE); Broad Agency Announcement (BAA); Suicide Prevention   2

Background
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Innovation Ecosystem (VHAIE) is seeking early-stage research, development, prototyping, and piloting proposals to advance the state of the art in suicide prevention, care coordination, and treatment. The VHAIE aims to source and fund innovative ideas that increase Veteran access to services, reduce costs, enhance VA operations, and improve service quality for Veterans and their families. The BAA opportunity invites potential offerors from the private sector, non-profits, and institutions of higher learning to contribute ideas for innovations.

Work Details
The solicitation includes detailed instructions for proposal preparation and submission. It specifies that a Statement of Work (SOW) should be included in the Technical Volume of the proposal. Additionally, resumes for Key Personnel are required to be included in the Technical Volume. The solicitation also provides information on communication with the VA after receiving an invitation to submit a full proposal, subcontractor cost documentation requirements, funding availability limits for prototyping/test phase and field test/pilot phase, submission of multiple concept papers by an organization, funding release per project, review timeline for concept paper submissions, availability of research funding through other mechanisms, data access details for project evaluation, voluntary opt-in application for monitoring vet communications for suicide prevention, funding limits for solutions advancing into the next phase, and submission of concept papers by vendors partnering with other firms or joint ventures.