SAN FRANCISCO — Knowtex, the first frontier AI lab for healthcare, announced today that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected it as a prime awardee on the Ambient Scribe Enterprise Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The award expands the use of AI that gives VA clinicians more time with the Veterans they serve. The VA Technology Acquisition Center awarded the contract on September 18, 2026. It is a multiple-award IDIQ with a five-year ordering period and a shared maximum ceiling of $775.72 million across all awardees, making it the largest public enterprise commitment to ambient AI in American healthcare.
As one of only two companies named a prime awardee, Knowtex contracts directly with VA to provide cloud-based ambient scribe solutions that capture clinical encounters, generate draft notes, and deliver advanced AI capabilities such as coding, order entry and clinical intelligence integrated with VA's electronic health record systems, so providers can face the Veteran, not the keyboard.