Specifications include, but are not limited to: We are soliciting proposals from PBMs to provide prescription drug benefits to the State of Connecticut Employee Benefits Programs for its active employees, non-Medicare eligible retiree participants, State Partnership Planimembers, and their covered dependents, effective 7/1/2019. The State Partnership Plan is open to “non-state public employers” and enables these entities to receive the same benefits as the State Employee Plan at comparable cost. The State has approximately 188,000 covered lives (including dependents), with an annual drug gross cost spend of approximately $340,000,000 on 1.7 million scripts dispensed. The State seeks best in class pricing terms, aligned and transparent pricing guarantees, comprehensive and responsive member services and state of the art clinical management programs.