Salary-survey data collection & analysis
for the Veterans Health Administration.
A workforce of roughly 380,000 across 170 medical centers and 1,193 outpatient sites — paid under Title 38, Title 38 Hybrid, and Title 5. We license the surveys, match the occupations, anchor locality to BLS, and run it all on the cloud platform the RFI asks Task 4 to describe. By House Strategies Group.
Workforce in Scope
~380K employees · 9 occupation families · 3 pay systems
Physicians & Dentists
Title 38~30,000 staff · 42 occupations
Nursing
Title 38~100,000 staff · 9 occupations
Advanced Practice Providers
Title 38~12,500 staff · 6 occupations
Pharmacy
Title 38 Hybrid~16,500 staff · 5 occupations
Behavioral & Mental Health
Title 38 Hybrid~26,000 staff · 8 occupations
Allied Health & Therapies
Title 38 Hybrid~34,000 staff · 22 occupations
Diagnostic & Laboratory
Title 38 Hybrid~22,000 staff · 14 occupations
Patient Care Support
Title 5 (GS)~95,000 staff · 18 occupations
Administration & Operations
Title 5 (GS)~44,000 staff · 96 occupations
Occupation families, headcounts, and pay-system assignments are illustrative — modeled from public knowledge of VHA's workforce. Production values are pulled from VHA HR systems at engagement award.
What This Engagement Delivers
Four lenses on VHA's pay competitiveness.
The Sources Sought describes five tasks — survey identification and purchasing, employee-data and survey analysis, geographic differentials, a cloud database, and a job-architecture catalog. The four cards below are the analytical product behind those tasks, already built and clickable.
Why HSG
Five reasons our approach fits VHA.
01
We already license the healthcare survey market
SullivanCotter, MGMA, AMGA, ECRI, and Mercer are live in our practice — plus the BLS OEWS public anchor. Task 1 starts from a running start, not a procurement cycle.
02
We model VHA's three pay systems correctly
§7431 physician base-plus-market-pay, §7451 nurse locality pay, and Title 38 Hybrid Special Salary Rates each follow different rules. We treat them as first-class, not one undifferentiated 'salary' field.
03
Task 4 is a working product, not a slide
The RFI literally asks how your cloud solution completes 4A–4I. This portal is that solution, running. The VA can click through every stage before award.
04
BLS-anchored locality, built for §7451
Geographic differentials trace to authoritative BLS OEWS metro wage data — the legal anchor for nurse locality pay — with a defined 30-day review path when BLS publishes new figures.
05
Engineered for the 18→5 VISN reorganization
The largest VHA restructuring since 1995 is underway. Our job-architecture catalog is effective-dated so geographic differentials and crosswalks survive the consolidation intact.
The Solicitation at a Glance
Market research / Sources Sought — responses due June 12, 2026 · 2:00 PM ET.
Solicitation
36C77626Q0191
VA-26-00056720
NAICS
541990
$19.5M size standard
Contracting Activity
VA PCAC
Independence, OH
Response Format
10 pages
11-pt Calibri, single-spaced
9 licensed commercial surveys + BLS OEWS public anchor underpin the analysis. Sub-task structure (4A–4I, Task 5) reconstructed from the Sources Sought description; the draft PWS attachment was not released with the notice.
Sources Sought Companion
This portal is the Task 4 cloud solution — already running.
Every chart, crosswalk, and dashboard here is the analytical product VHA would receive — sharper, populated with VHA's licensed survey data and workforce extracts, governed by an immutable audit trail from source to recommendation.