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SOLICITATION HT9402-13-R-0001

TRICARE PHARMACY PROGRAM, FOURTH GENERATION (TPHARM4)

QUESTION AND ANSWER (Q&A) SET #9 CLARIFICATION

HT9402-13-R-0001

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Amendment #4 does not include Section B and the pages representing the CLINs. If no changes are to be made to the CLIN Claim volumes let it be known that CLIN claim volumes do not agree with the Amendment #3 Table L-1 Retail Claim Volumes. For example, Option Period 1 CLIN claim volume for Retail Network and Mail claim volume is 73,700,000 while Amendment #3 Option Period 1 Table L-1 Retail claim volume is now 69,647,200 a reduction of 4,052,800 claims for Table L-1 pricing. The 7 year net difference is an increase of over 9 million claims between the CLINs and Table L-1. Before issue of Amendment #3 the all Option Period CLINs and Table L-1 claim counts were equal.

See forthcoming amendment to revise quantities; but please note that there should not be an expectation for section B and table L-1 to have the exact same quantities. Table L-1 is for evaluation purposes only and the section B quantities are estimated, rounded, and do not represent a commitment on the part of the Government that these quantities will actually occur over the course of the contract. See Section L.10.1.3.

Offerors should use their best business judgment and experience in formulating figures in table L-1 and pricing the Section B requirements.

Clarification: Amendment 0005 revised quantities in table L-1. However, the difference in quantities between section B and Table L-1 will not coincide with each other due to the fact that the quantities estimated in table L-1 do not include all claims as the types of claims identified in section H.1.3 are excluded from the guarantee and incentive.

After reviewing the changes made in Amendment 3, it was noted that a significant increase was made to the volumes in Table L-1. The volumes in Table L-1 and Schedule B were in greater alignment in the original RFP.

In Amendment 3, there is a discrepancy of 10M in the volumes between Table L-1 and Schedule B. Could you please explain why the volumes changed in Table L-1 but remained the same in Schedule B.

See forthcoming amendment to revise quantities; but please note that there should not be an expectation for section B and table L-1 to have the exact same quantities. Table L-1 is for evaluation purposes only and the section B quantities are estimated, rounded, and do not represent a commitment on the part of the Government that these quantities will actually occur over the course of the contract. See Section L.10.1.3.

Offerors should use their best business judgment and experience in formulating figures in table L-1 and pricing the Section B requirements.

Clarification: Amendment 0005 revised quantities in table L-1. However, the difference in quantities between section B and Table L-1 will not coincide with each other due to the fact that the quantities estimated in table L-1 do not include all claims as the types of claims identified in section H.1.3 are excluded from the guarantee and incentive.