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    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/bidderslibrary/YH12-0001.aspx</link>
    <description>The latest updates to the ALTCS YH12-0001 Request for Proposal (RFP) and the Bidder's Library</description>
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    <category>medicaid</category>
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	<title>AHCCCS Director's Decision Letter for SCAN Appeal</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/bidderslibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#Award</link>
	<description>On June 24, 2011, AHCCCS posted the Director's Decision Letter for the first SCAN Appeal.
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	<title>SCAN Submits Second Protest/AHCCCS Response</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/bidderslibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#Award</link>
	<description>SCAN filed a second protest on June 3, 2011.  AHCCCS responded to the SCAN protest on June 20, 2011.</description>
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	<title>Updates for Mercy Care/SCAN ALTCS RFP Award Announcement Appeals</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/bidderslibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#Award</link>
	<description>On June 10th Mercy Care Plan submitted their Appeal of the AHCCCS decision. On June 15th, AHCCCS dismissed the Mercy Care appeal.  
	On June 15th, SCAN submitted their appeal of the AHCCCS decision.</description>
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	<title>Updated ALTCS RFP Award Announcement</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/shared/news.aspx#RFPAward</link>
	<description>On June 14, 2011, AHCCCS awarded an eleventh contract to Mercy Care Plan in Pima county.</description>
	<language>en-us</language>
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	<title>SCAN Decision Letter</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/downloads/solicitations/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001/ResponseLetter_SCAN6-10-11.pdf</link>
	<description>On June 10, 2011, AHCCCS responded to SCAN in a letter which provides a response to the issues in the SCAN May 31, 2011 protest letter.</description>
	<language>en-us</language>
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	<title>Mercy Care Plan Decision Letter</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/downloads/solicitations/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001/ResponsetoMercyCare.pdf</link>
	<description>On June 3, 2011, AHCCCS responded to Mercy Care in a letter which provides a point by point response to each of the arguments made in the MCP May 20, 2011 protest letter.</description>
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	<title>SCAN Protest</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/downloads/solicitations/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001/5-31-11SCAN_ProtestLetter.pdf</link>
	<description>On May 31, 2011, SCAN Long Term Care (SCAN) filed a protest of the ALTCS contract award for Maricopa County.</description>
	<language>en-us</language>
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	<title>Mercy Care Protest</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/downloads/solicitations/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001/VeitMichael05-21-11_MH2GMGW.pdf</link>
	<description>AHCCCS recently decided not to award the Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS) contract to Mercy Care for Pima and Santa Cruz Counties.
	Mercy Care protests this decision for various and specific reasons.</description>
	<language>en-us</language>
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	<title>Protest of ALTCS Contract Award</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/downloads/solicitations/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001/ProtestContractAward_5-26-11.pdf</link>
	<description>On May 20, 2011 Mercy Care Plan filed a protest of the ALTCS contract award in Pima and Santa Cruz counties, alleging errors in the scoring and the evaluation of its proposal.</description>
	<language>en-us</language>
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	<title>ALTCS RFP Award Announcement</title>
	<link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/shared/news.aspx#RFPAward</link>
	<description>May 5, 2011 - The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), 
	Arizona’s single state Medicaid agency, has awarded nine contracts to three successful managed care companies that will provide services to Arizonans 
	enrolled in the Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS) program.</description>
	<language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Amendment added to YH12-0001 Bidder's Library</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#general</link>
    <description>Solicitation Amendment 2 - Q and A was added to the General Section of the Bidder's Library
    on 3/11/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Change to Policies/Manuals Section of the YH12-0001 Bidder's Library</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#policies</link>
    <description>The HCBS Reconciliation document under the Policies/Manuals section header was updated on 3/8/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Amendment added to YH12-0001 Bidder's Library</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#policies</link>
    <description>Solicitation Amendment 1 - Q and A was added to the General Section of the Bidder's Library
    on 2/24/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Removed Link from Bidder's Library Policies and Manuals Section</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#SectF</link>
    <description>The link to the Provider Affiliation Transmission User Manual in the Policies and Manuals Section
    was removed on 2/24/2011. That document is not required for ALTCS Contractors.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Bidder's Library Data Supplement Update</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#SectF</link>
    <description>Added three documents for Section F: Bid Submission Tools under the Data Supplement section of the
    YH12-0001 Bidder's Library on 2/24/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Bidder's Library Zip File Update</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#zip</link>
    <description>The zip file of all the documents associated with the YH12-0001 Bidder's Library was refreshed on 2/16/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Network Summary Template Updated</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#forms</link>
    <description>The Network Summary Template was updated on <b>2/16/11</b> and Offerors should use the 
    new template for network submissions. This file was also replaced in the zip file.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Replaced Data Supplement Section B Document</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#sect_b</link>
    <description>The Program Changes document under Section B of the Data Supplement for the ALTCS YH12-0001 Bidder's Library was replaced. 
    The change was an update to a date that was labeled incorrectly in the data chart in the Outlier section of the narrative.
	The document was also replaced in the zip file and both items were updated on 2/16/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Added a New Section to the YH12-0001 Bidder's Library</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#prospective</link>
    <description>A new section, Pre-release Information, was added above the General section of the Bidder's Library. The new
    section includes some items from the Upcoming ALTCS RFP page that was available before the ALTCS YH12-0001 RFP was released. 
    This section was added on 2/16/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Added Attendance Sheets for the Prospective Offerors' Conference</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#prospective</link>
    <description>Both the AM and PM sign-in sheets were added to the Bidder's Library page and the zip file on 2/10/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Change to Prospective Offerors' Conference Presentation</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#prospective</link>
    <description>There was a date change on slide 6 of the Prospective Offerors' Conference Presentation (second bullet under the 
    Prospective Offerors' Conference Presentations heading). There were also slight changes to slides 70 and 71 of the same presentation. These
    changes were made 2/9/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Changes Made to the Zip File</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#zip</link>
    <description>The zip file that contains all downloadable files except those available in EFT, has been updated with any documents
    changed or omitted since 2/1/2011. This change took place on 2/9/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Replaced RFP Section G: Representations and Certifications of Offeror</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#sect_G</link>
    <description>Replaced the PDF version of the RFP Section G: Representations and Certifications of Offeror document, with a Word version that 
    the user can complete online and save. This change took place on 2/9/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Added Prospective Offerors' Conference Presentations</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#prospective</link>
    <description>Two Prospective Offerors' Conference Presentations have been added to the Bidder's Library page on 2/8/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Corrected Errors with Links in the Section A - Data Supplement Instructions and Overview</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#sect_a</link>
    <description>The Health Plans/Offerors were experiencing an error when they clicked on the Exchange form and 
    when they click on the link to the Affirmation Statement it prompts the user to place an email to an AHCCCS staff member.
     This issue was corrected at 1:00pm on 2/2/2011.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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    <title>Corrected Case Management Document Links</title>
    <link>http://www.azahcccs.gov/commercial/purchasing/BiddersLibrary/YH12-0001.aspx#case</link>
    <description>Reorganized and relinked the Case Management documents under the Reference section of the Bidder's Library page.
    The text links were pointing to the wrong documents. This issue was corrected at 11:00am on 2/2/2011.
    </description>
    <language>en-us</language>
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