Pharmacy Services and Intravenous Therapy & Related Services

This announcment is issued for informational and planning purposes only. This Request for Information (RFI) is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or otherwise pay for the information solicited. Responses to the RFI will not serve as proposals, bids, or offers, which could be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service is conducting market research to determine the feasibility of a set-aside competition for the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) in Gulfport, MS. The AFRH-G requires pharmacy and IV Therapy, medicine compounding, and related services. The resident capacity includes Long Term Care (LTC) unit of 24 beds, Dementia Care Unit (MS) of 24 beds, and an Assisted Living (AL) unit of 12 beds. Additionally there is an Independent population of aproximately 500. The Contractor shall be expected to meet the needs of all AL, LTC, and MS residents by providing accurate and dependable dispensing of medications. The current average age for the population is 84. The average medication per individual is eighteen (18). The Contractor shall provide medications in a unit dose system for all AL, LTC, and MS residents. The Contractor shall deliver medications weekly. The Contractor shall have a consultant phamacist available. The Contractor shall have an on-call and/or emergency delivery of medications 24 hours a day. The Contractor will have a pharmacy within 20 miles of AFRH-G. The Contractor shall provide an acceptable timeframe for delivery of emergency medications without additional cost to AFRH-G. The Contractor shall use generic medications whenever possible. The Contractor shall have the expertise in accomplishing drug regimen reviews and offering therapeutic substitutions. The Contractor shall have a current formulary targeted specifically to the geriatric resident. The Contractor shall have the ability and shall provide in-service staff training for medications prescribed. The Contractor shall perform periodic drug reviews, medication pass reviews and monthly unit inspections at the Gulfport, MS facility. The Contractor is expected to have close interaction with the AFRH-G medical team, provide a monthly report and attend a monthly meeting at the facility. The Contractor shall have the ability and provide electronic medicine ordering and reordering, Medication Administration Records (MARS), Treatment Administration Records (TARS) and charting systems. The Contractor shall supply the AFRH-G facility with adequate medication carts, treatment carts and other computerized systems to transmit prescription needs. The Contractor shall be available to provide services 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The Contractor shall provide an emergency/back-up system (electronic dispensing system). The Contractor shall audit the electronic dispensing system every other month. The Contractor shall provide Intravenous Services to the AFRH-G seven days a week with regularly scheduled pharmacy deliveries, and shall deliver products on an emergency basis whenever deemed necessary by the Chief Medical Officer, charge nurse and/or Director of Nursing without additional charge to AFRH-G. Actual frequency of delivery is determined by acuity and medication stability. The Contractor shall provide the consulting services of a Clinical Pharmacist on staff for troubleshooting and clinical pharmacy monitoring and consultation twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. The Contractor is required to be an approved provider of Tricare Insurance, and other 3rd party insurance, and Medicare Services. The Contractor shall have the ability to bill Tricare and 3rd payers for reimbursement of services. Residents and/or their insurance companies shall be responsible for payment of services. The Government is not responsbile for payment and shall not be billed for these services. The Government will be responsible for co-payments and fees for those residents who do not have insurance. AFRH-G will identify to the Contractor those residents for which AFRH-G is responsible for payment. The Bureau of Fiscal Service is requesting the following information within 10 days of this request: The name and location of your company and contact information. Provide information that clearly indicates your capability to meet the above requirements. The name and contact information for customers, current or previous, for which you have provided services similar to the ones that we require. Interested parties are reqested to submit responses electronically to KHedrick at psb1@fiscal.treasury.gov. Please insert RFI-AFRG-14-0030 into the subject line. Your response, while appreciated, is completely voluntary. No other information regarding this requirement will be provided at this time.