April 18 Pentagon post TRICARE Express Scripts Inc., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $33,800,000 requirements-type contract with fixed unit prices, to provide pharmacy benefit management services to the Department of Defense TRICARE pharmacy program. The total cumulative face value of the contract, including the one year base period and seven one-year option periods, if exercised, for pharmacy benefit management services, and options for contract phase-out, is estimated at $5,364,684,318. The TRICARE Pharmacy Benefits Program offers pharmacy services through direct care pharmacy services at Military Treatment Facilities; retail network pharmacies; authorized retail non-network pharmacies; or delivery through the TRICARE Home Delivery/Mail Order Pharmacy. Retail pharmacy services are available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The contractor will perform pharmacy benefits management functions, including the following: perform claims adjudication, administer a retail pharmacy network, operate mail order pharmacy, provide clinical services for specialty pharmaceuticals, process direct member reimbursements for claims filled at retail network and non-network pharmacies, perform clinical reviews, and provide beneficiary and pharmacy support services. The contractor will also perform as a fiscal intermediary on behalf of DoD to pay for all authorized pharmaceuticals and supplies dispensed for eligible beneficiaries at retail pharmacies and transmit all claim information to the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service, the DoD designated data warehouse. This contract was competitively procured using the Best Value Tradeoff Source Selection process, with two offers received. Fiscal 2014 DoD operations and maintenance funding in the amount of $33,800,000 is being obligated at award. The Defense Health Agency, Aurora, Colo., is the contracting activity (HT9402-14-D-0002).
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:04:17 +0000
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