RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Purchasing Agent, on behalf of Health Services Department, to execute a blanket purchase order with General Electric Healthcare Inc., in the amount of $180,000 for radiopharmaceutical distribution at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, for the period January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% funding is included in the Enterprise Fund I Budget.
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 contract is not approved, the Diagnostic Imaging/Nuclear Medicine Department will not be able to service the patient population at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center.
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