Section 354.1025 - Competitive Procurement of Vision Care ServicesThe 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.1 Tex. Admin. Code § 354.1025
The provisions of this §354.1025 adopted to be effective March 13, 2003, 28 TexReg 2051; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 40, Number 49, December 4, 2015, TexReg 8753, eff. 12/10/2015