Virtual Pharmacist for VA Central California Health Care System
This is a Sources Sought only. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is performing market research to determine if there are any vendors that can provide Remote Pharmacy Services for the VA Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS) Fresno, CA.
The Contractor shall provide a Licensed Pharmacist to perform verification of prescription orders via computer utilizing remote access to Veteran Affairs Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS) in Fresno, California.
There is no solicitation document as this time. The NAICS is 621399 Clinical Pharmacist Office (Office of all other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners) $7.5 M Size Standard. NOTE: Please ensure that System For Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement.
Only firms interested and capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to charles.dutkevitch@va.gov a no later than 13:00 PM Pacific, August 28, 2019.
If interested, please provide the following information:
Name of Company
Point of Contact Name, phone number, and email address
DUNS number
Socio-economic status such as Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, VOSB, Women-Owned Small Business, etc. should be included. SDVOSB/VOSB status will be verified using VetBiz. (If Applicable)
Capability statements
Describe experience or past performance providing Remote Pharmacy Services?
Identify the commercial price schedule structure for these services based on the requirements in the Draft PWSs. (Note, this is not a request for quote this is a request for pricing information for market research purposes only.)
Before responding please carefully read and consider the following: As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have a Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/52_217_221.html
Please see the DRAFT Performance Work Statements attached for further details.
DISCLAIMER
This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this source sought. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. This is simply a sources sought notice.
Charles D Dutkevitch
Contract Specialist
559-225-6100 x4115
Charles.Dutkevitch@va.gov
