Requirements to be Identified as a Responsible Bidder

1. In order to be eligible to bid on a GNYHA Services Regional contract, a vendor must be an entity that is duly formed and in good standing under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction and, to the extent applicable, licensed to provide the products and services for which it seeks to submit a bid. GNYHA Services reserves the right to disqualify any bidder based on objective evidence of possible violation of the law or failure to comply with industry standards.
2. GNYHA Services encourages the participation of small, women-owned and/or minority-owned businesses.
3. Eligible vendors must meet all applicable Joint Commission regulations.
4. Eligible vendors must not be on the Medicare exclusion list.

Criteria for Selection of a Vendor

GNYHA Services will award a regional contract to any qualified vendor (see Requirements to be Identified as a Responsible Bidder) determined to have proposed the best pricing and other contract terms for a given product or service. GNYHA Services relies on its Regional Advisory Committee (RAC), various member surveys and other communications to assess the needs of members.

1. All national group purchasing contracts that are offered through the Premier/GNYHA group purchasing program and directly entered into between Premier and a participating vendor are subject to Premier's contract award process. For information on that process, vendors and other third-parties should be directed to the Premier Web site, www.premierinc.com.
2. The overwhelming majority of contracts offered through the GNYHA/Premier Program are national contracts entered into directly by Premier and the relevant vendor. Therefore, if you are a vendor that is interested in offering a contract through the GNYHA/Premier program, please contact Premier. (See Premier Web site www.premierinc.com).
3. If you are a vendor that is interested in a GNYHA regional contract, the contracting process is subject to GNYHA's Regional Contracting procedures, as described above (see Bid and Award Process for Regional Contracts).
   
   • It is GNYHA's policy to offer physician preference products in the GNYHA/Premier Program on a "multi-source" basis-i.e., to offer participants a choice of vendors with respect to products that are offered. If for any particular product, one or more vendor contracts is offered at the national level, GNYHA would not necessarily offer more than one additional vendor at the GNYHA regional level. The multi-source requirement will be met if through the GNYHA/Premier Program, participants have a choice of more than one vendor, regardless of whether one is offered from a national contract and one is offered from a regional contract.
   • If it has been determined that a regional contract is needed, the selection of a vendor will involve input from the members and the GNYHA Regional Advisory Committee, as appropriate.