Specifications include, but are not limited to: The purpose of this solicitation contract is to solicit responses to contract with a vendor(s) to provide hearing aids to the State of Minnesota (lead State), other state agencies and participants in the State of Minnesota’s Cooperative Purchasing Venture (CPV) program and the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine and Colorado, on an as needed basis. Hearing aids are dispensed by qualified audiologists and hearing instrument dispensers participating with the Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) in participation with the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services (DHS), the Michigan Health Care Programs, the State of Maine’s Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR), and the State of Colorado’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR). The Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) enrolls qualified audiologists and hearing instrument dispensers. There are approximately 320 enrolled audiologists and hearing instrument dispensers serving fee-for-service recipients. The hearing aid program is managed and supervised by the State’s Department of Human Services (DHS) Health Care Programs’ Purchasing and Service Delivery Division. Hearing aids will be ordered by the dispensing audiologist and/or hearing instrument dispensers unless otherwise directed by DHS.
