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B -- MEDICARE DRUG PRICING POC Lydia Smith, Contract Specialist, (410) 786-6634 Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is seeking to award a firm fixed price purchase order under Simplified Acquisition Procedures on a 100% small business set aside basis. For a period of one base year with three option years for the following services: Contractor to create an electronic pricing file of Medicare covered drugs to be used by all Medicare contractors processing claims for drugs that are not paid on a cost or prospective payment basis. In order to accomplish this task the contractor must have: A. Immediate access to current and all subsequent updates to HCPCS codes. These codes are currently available on the Internet at "http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/pufiles.htm"; B. Immediate access to current and all subsequent updates to inclusive AWP data; C. Capability to determine an AWP for each HCPCS drug code; and D. Current experience utilizing the awp data. All offerors must provide a narrative description of this experience and include references with contract people and current phone numbers. The Government will make award to the responsible offer(s) whose offer conforms to the Request for Quotation (RFQ) and is most advantageous to the Government, technical and price considered. As the proposals become more equal in technical merit, the evaluated price will become more important. The Government reserves the right, however, to make award to the offeror who provides reasonable expectation of superior technical performance, regardless of the offeror's price relative to other offerors' price. Our evaluation of the technical factors will be based on information in your proposal that offers the greatest value to the Government. Your response to each technical factor must document specific competencies. Failure to submit all of the above requirements will result in a rejection of your RFQ. Please keep additional material in your proposal to a minimum. Telephone requests will not be accepted. Facsimile requests will be accepted on (410) 786-9088. For technical questions contact Robert Niemann on (410) 786-4569 or Linda Ring on (410) 786-3319. (0069)

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