The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) may establish a process for procuring eyewear that encourages competition and results in savings to the state.
  (1) HHSC will determine what categories or individual types of eyewear may be procured through a competitive process using the following criteria:
    (A) the cost effectiveness of competitively procuring a particular category or type of eyewear; and
    (B) providing quality vision care services for recipients.
  (2) HHSC may limit the number of providers with whom it will contract to supply eyewear using the following criteria:
    (A) responses to the competitive procurement request for proposal;
    (B) recipient accessibility to vision services; and
    (C) program cost effectiveness.

Source Note: The provisions of this §354.1025 adopted to be effective March 13, 2003, 28 TexReg 2051; amended to be effective December 10, 2015, 40 TexReg 8753