This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to McKesson Corporation, a healthcare services and information technology company, for the provision of pharmaceutical products such as penicillin injections and alvimopan capsules. The contract, valued at $99,391.04, has an ultimate completion date of May 11, 2018.
McKesson is a prime contractor that has received multiple awards from federal agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service for pharmaceutical supplies and services. This specific award is part of McKesson's broader contract vehicles with these agencies, which include a $675 million National Supply Service Center prime vendor blanket purchase agreement with the Indian Health Service and a single-award blanket purchase agreement worth up to $710 million to provide pharmaceutical products that cannot be obtained through the VA's broader pharmacy prime vendor program. No set-aside designation was used for this award.