D--*Intent to Sole Source* Clintegrity 360/CDI Pro Annual License

The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) has a requirement to renew the Nuance Clintegrity 360/CDI Pro software suite currently utilized by the VAPHS. This software is utilized to code health records in CPRS. Accurate and complete medical documentation is vital to the critical pillars of healthcare delivery: clinical quality of care, workload capture, and VERA (Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation) and insurance reimbursement. Alvarez & Associates, via SEWP, is the sole SDVOSB distributor of the Nuance Clintegrity 360 system and its related applications, such as CDI Pro. All of Nuance s applications are proprietary and therefore no other company other than Alvarez & Associates (and Nuance directly) can provide these products or support for these products. CDI Pro is an add-on application to an existing system, Clintegrity 360, already in use. To replace the Clintegrity 360 suite with new coding software is not in the best interest of the Government. Such a replacement would incur unnecessary cost and the Government would likely enter into another sole source/limited source agreement. The Government intends to enter into a Base + 4 Option Year contract with Alvarez & Associates.