Notice ID: 36C10B22Q0028
“The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) authorizes Veterans to utilize external community pharmacies to fulfill prescriptions. Currently, this is managed using manual, paper-driven interactions between VHA and those pharmacies. As more states mandate the adoption of electronic prescriptions, VHA needs the ability to electronically prescribe medication for Veterans to community pharmacies of the Veteran’s choice, and to exchange prescription management communications with the community pharmacies. Due to timelines associated with state mandates, VHA needs the ability to: Electronically prescribe medication for Veterans to community pharmacies of the Veteran’s choice, receive and send communications with the community pharmacies and maintain details of the prescription fulfillment process in the Veteran’s health record.”
“While the implementation of the Cerner Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution that VA is currently undertaking includes ePrescribe capability, the purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to determine the availability and feasibility, as well as potential cost, of implementing a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) interim solution to provide outbound ePrescribing capability through at least 2028, the subsequent Cerner solution, and potentially longer if Cerner implementation is delayed…”
“Scope of Work: VHA requires Contractor support to implement the capability for VA prescribers to create and send an eligible Veteran’s prescription electronically to a non-VA community pharmacy. The Contractor shall provide project management, requirements analysis, design, development, software security, integration, testing, release support, training, warranty, and documentation for requirements supporting the ePrescribe Outbound Solution… The pharmacy tool shall integrate bidirectionally with VistA allowing prescriptions to be managed in the tool or in Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS). The tool shall distinguish prescriptions that originated in a VA clinic from those that originated from a community care clinic for appropriate workflow consideration. To enhance quality of care and comply with state prescribing regulations, the tool shall validate against the medical health record in accordance with VHA patient safety business rules…”
“The Period of Performance (PoP) shall be 12 months from date of award, with four 12-month option period(s) and additional Optional Tasks as required. The overall PoP shall not exceed 60 months…”
