SECTION 354.1025. Competitive Procurement of Vision Care Services

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The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) may establish a process for procuring eyewear that encourages competition and results in savings to the state.
(1) HHSC will determine what categories or individual types of eyewear may be procured through a competitive process using the following criteria:
(A) the cost effectiveness of competitively procuring a particular category or type of eyewear; and
(B) providing quality vision care services for recipients.
(2) HHSC may limit the number of providers with whom it will contract to supply eyewear using the following criteria:
(A) responses to the competitive procurement request for proposal;
(B) recipient accessibility to vision services; and
(C) program cost effectiveness.

Source Note: The provisions of this §354.1025 adopted to be effective March 13, 2003, 28 TexReg 2051; amended to be effective December 10, 2015, 40 TexReg 8753

                    
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