Announcement of a Sole Source Purchase

Bluesight for Controlled Substances is a software module that helps eliminate time-consuming controlled substance tracking and increases visibility into controlled substance documentation to drive compliance, decrease medication errors, and help detect diversion. The level of oversight and insight into our controlled substance inventory and use is unobtainable using legacy systems and tools provided in our electronic health record system, pharmacy inventory system, or available analytics options through Epic or outside Epic. Our diversion monitoring activities relied on manual reports from Omnicell or Epic systems and reactive audits. Reconciliation and review activities were documented in ways that were not readily retrievable, not visible to key team members, or analyzable, which left UI Health vulnerable in case of a regulatory audit.

The university, on information and belief, has concluded that only one vendor can meet its need or can meet the need economically. That vendor is Bluesight Inc. The university has provided detailed justification to support its conclusion as shown on the attached Sole Source Justification Form.

Although the university has presented this as a sole source procurement, we are seeking competitive information from firms with the capability of meeting the university's need (even if performed in a manner different from what has been presented) to contact us and provide sufficient information to show the need can be met. If we receive that information, the Chief Procurement Officer will offer a public hearing to consider the matter. Hearing information is described below. PerSection 4.2039 of the Administrative Code, the SSJF is being updated to correct the total estimated cost.

The University has determined that this purchase is only economically available from this source because the procurement is software license, upgrade or maintenance. Bluesight for Controlled Substances is the only software that provides all the functionality needed to ensure a robust diversion program.