Description
The Alabama Department of Youth Services is soliciting bids to secure a Master Agreement for Prescription Drugs for students residing on the Autauga Campus. The supplier will be required to provide prescription services, filled and delivered or picked up as called or faxed by Department of Youth Services Personnel. The supplier must be available after normal working hours and on holidays to fill emergency requisitions. Some key specifications include: all prescriptions must be ready in four hours after call, prescriptions faxed to the pharmacy on weekdays must be delivered by noon the following day, and all medications must be pre-packaged.
• The supplier will provide scheduled medications, as ordered by a licensed physician, in unit dose packs.
• The supplier will notify the campus nursing staff of any discrepancies pertaining to prescriptions and will remedy the situation and have the prescriptions available for delivery within one hour.
• The supplier will provide all medications in the generic form, if commercially available, unless the brand name of the medication is specifically requested.
• The supplier will notify the campus nursing staff of any new prescriptions that have a cost that exceeds $200.00.