Tender: Administration Services for Community Service Obligation (CSO) and Chemotherapy Compounding Payment Scheme (CCPS) – Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

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The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is seeking a supplier to provide administration services for the Community Service Obligation (CSO) (CSO Funding Pool and CSO & National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) services) and/or the Chemotherapy Compounding Payment Scheme (CCPS). Responsibilities for the CSO role include monitoring CSO Distributors’ performance and compliance with the CSO Distributor Deed and CSO Operational Guidelines, calculating monthly payments for PBS and Section 100 units and supply costs for NDSS products, conducting site audits of warehouses and storage facilities, operating a payment system capable of processing up to 25 million PBS and Section 100 units and approximately 600,000 NDSS products monthly, establishing and operating a Help Desk for participants, identifying and notifying distributors of breaches, providing monthly, quarterly and annual reports, and cooperating with the NDSS Administrator. Responsibilities for the CCPS role include actively monitoring TGA licence status of compounders and administering Compounding Funds in accordance with the Deed of Agreement, developing and maintaining a system to receive and store data and manage Compounder IDs for TGA and non-TGA licensed compounders, assessing relevant data and compounder ID applications, receiving and securely managing Commonwealth funds including establishing necessary banking accounts, calculating and making payments to TGA-licensed compounders based on PBS online data, investigating and resolving data anomalies with compounders, operating a Help Desk for compounders, and providing monthly and annual reports.