Thursday, February 10, 2011

VA Soliciting Bids for After-Hours Telepharmacy Service at Maine Hospital

The Federal Business Opportunities website has an offer from the Department of Veterans Affairs to remotely staff the Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, Maine. Details as follows:
The Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, ME requires after hours telepharmacy services for inpatients. This entails the vendor providing drug knowledge resources and pharmacist medication order review and entry services. This will include review of authorized physician medication ordered during "after hours" time periods that are scanned, sent, transmitted to or accessed by vendor. Pharmacists will enter via remote access, orders into VAMC medication order entry system. This contract is needed to relieve the present system of after hour's pharmacy orders. This work is presently being performed by VAMC TOGUS staff pharmacists on call and on overtime.

Solicitation Information: This telepharmacy contract will include a base year with 4 option periods at an estimated amount between $50,000 and $100,000 annually. The solicitation documents will be posted at the Federal Business Opportunities website (http://www.fbo.gov) on or about February 15, 2011.
So far there have been nine bids by providers from around the country, mostly from the Northeastern states.

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