VA Seeks Industry Input on MOSAIC Data Integration Initiative

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun market research for its planned Mission-Oriented Services for Application Integration and Capabilities (MOSAIC) initiative, seeking industry ideas on technology integration and related support across the department’s data environment. A sources-sought notice on SAM.gov describes an effort to address access and reliability gaps that can prevent VA data from being reliable and authoritative. The initiative could shape the department’s technical environment over the next five to 10 years, but VA has not finalized its technical requirements, operating model, or acquisition strategy. This is an information-gathering stage, not a solicitation or contract award.

VA’s existing mission data and integration landscape includes the VA Profile portal, where veterans can access and manage their information; the VADIR service database system, used by VA and the military; and the VA Health Data Repository, which contains clinical information. The department says its missions increasingly require multiple ways to access and exchange data: real-time transactional application programming interfaces (APIs), bulk and analytical access for data lakes and large-scale workloads, and event-driven or streaming exchanges. VA is also seeking to consider how to produce data that is ready for artificial intelligence applications while improving interoperability and reliability across systems.

The RFI presents a significant opportunity for vendors with experience in enterprise integration, data platforms, analytics, APIs, streaming technologies, interoperability standards, automation, and managed services. VA is asking industry to explain how technologies and operating models could evolve, including whether a managed-services approach or a platform-first model is better suited to the department’s needs. Responses can help inform both the future technical environment and potential acquisition approaches. Contractors should make clear distinctions between current capabilities and recommendations, and avoid treating the areas under discussion as finalized requirements.

VA is particularly interested in how AI agents and agent-to-agent interaction, real-time data, event-driven architecture, interoperability standards, automation, and reusable data products may change the role of traditional APIs, middleware, point-to-point integrations, and manual integration services. This makes the RFI relevant not only to systems integrators, but also to firms offering data engineering, cloud and platform services, analytics, and managed operations. Interested firms should review the complete notice and its questions across 10 general areas, coordinate input from technical and delivery teams, and submit by November 4, 2026, at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Submissions are limited to 25 pages.

• Opportunity stage: VA market research for MOSAIC; the notice is not a contract award or finalized solicitation.
• Response deadline: November 4, 2026, at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
• Submission limit: Responses to the RFI are limited to 25 pages.
• Potential scope: Enterprise data integration and related support, including APIs, bulk and analytical access, streaming, and real-time exchange.
• Current environment: VA Profile, VADIR, and the VA Health Data Repository are identified as components of VA’s mission data and integration landscape.
• Strategic horizon: VA is seeking industry input to help shape its future technical environment over the next five to 10 years.
• Operating-model question: The RFI asks respondents to compare managed-services models with platform-first approaches.
• Technology themes: AI-ready data, AI agents, agent-to-agent interaction, event-driven architecture, interoperability, automation, and reusable data products.
• Contractor action: Review the sources-sought notice on SAM.gov and tailor responses to the questions and capabilities VA is exploring, rather than presuming final requirements.