“The objective of this procurement is to have the contractor provide a broad range of database administration and application programming support services for the Structured Query Language (SQL) database and application called the NAC CM which is used by the NAC to manage their contracts.”
“Contractor shall provide maintenance for the NAC CM application which is currently in use by the NAC contracting staff. Application maintenance consists of two areas including maintenance of several databases and maintenance of the suite of front end application user interfaces.”
“Maintenance of the front-end application is based on practical knowledge of the original legacy application and is heavily dependent on an arrangement of views, layered up to seven levels deep, some of which have been part of the structure since the application’s inception. Because the database is not completely relational, additional consideration is required when designing changes to the front end. The front end is developed as a combination of vb.net (legacy portion) and a C#.net object layer…”
“The contractor shall develop and maintain the existing pharmaceutical item management section required in support of the interface to the VA pharmaceutical prime vendor.”
“Contractor shall have practical knowledge of the business requirements surrounding the NAC CM’s internal vendor process. Support of the pricing quality analysis requires practical knowledge of the 21-point business requirement provided by Pharmacy Benefits Management Service (PBM) that ensures the correct relationship between the FCP; FSS price; Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services, and the United States Coast Guard all collectively known as the BIG4 price; and restricted prices. In addition, quality reports mirror the real-time quality analysis and provide greater detail for management monitoring purposes…”
