RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and Authorize the Purchasing Agent, on behalf of the Health Services Department, to execute a Purchase Order with General Electric Healthcare in the amount of $125,000 to provide Radiopharmaceutical Distribution Services at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC), for the period from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2014.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding is 100% Enterprise Fund I.
BACKGROUND:
Radiopharmaceutical products are the required media in the performance of Nuclear Medicine exams/procedures. The products provided include Unit dose diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine radioisotopes; Tc99 generators; Nuclear Medicine reference and flood source; pharmaceutical stress agents; and cardiac isotopes. The products supplied through this agreement are necessary to the operation of the Nuclear Medicine section of the Diagnostic Imaging Department.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this Purchase Order is not approved, the Nuclear Medicine service provided for the patients at CCRMC could no longer be performed.
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