[cinja]

I'm a retired federal employee and can't be re-employeed by the federal government without a substantial loss in retirement benefits. I would like to eventually work for a agency that supplies the VA with nurses. My question is it a national contract or do the VA's operate independently and use regional agencies?

[eddy]

They actually do both. I'd suggest contacting your local VA's purchasing office and simply asking them who they use for staffing help.

[Ashera]

UNBELIEVABLE SITE!!!!

Ran across this site - don't know how - but it's awesome! Go here first:
http://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/ElibHome
Then under
Laboratory, Medical and Scientific... click on:
621 I PROFESSIONAL AND ALLIED HEALTHCARE STAFFING SERVICES

Hope this all works: You will come to a long, long list of all the agencies that are contracted with the VA system for staffing. You can then look at each and every one of their contracts - the agreed amounts for services and have links to each agencies website. It's a complicated site - but well worth the effort in the information you can obtain.

All this is public knowledge and information. Just not easy to run across casually.