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Secondary pharmacy distribution

CURASCRIPT SPECIALTY DISTRIBUTION · DPH Public Health

Public Health buys secondary pharmacy distribution from a specialty distributor — the back-up supply route for drugs the primary distributor does not carry. Awarded under a recorded sole-source authority rather than competitive bidding. San Francisco agreed $98.5M with CURASCRIPT SPECIALTY DISTRIBUTION for contract 1000020197 (DPH Public Health); $11.7M has been paid on it so far. Source: SF Controller supplier contracts (open data), data as of 13 July 2026.

In plain English

Public Health buys secondary pharmacy distribution from a specialty distributor — the back-up supply route for drugs the primary distributor does not carry. Awarded under a recorded sole-source authority rather than competitive bidding.

Register title:DPH - Phmcy Scndry Dist.

Signed by Public Health

Sole-source
Agreed
$98.5M
Paid
$11.7M
12% of agreed
Remaining (calculated)
$86.8M
The money
Paid against the agreed amount
Payments per fiscal year
24252627
Largest year: $6.6M · dashed = fiscal year not closed yet

These bars total $12.4M; the figure above is $11.7M. The first comes from the City’s payment ledger, the second from the contract register’s own paid column. They match on ordinary contracts and drift apart on multi-phase projects, where the work runs through several purchase orders and the ledger counts all of them.

Payment detail begins FY2018
The deal
Contract term
December 1, 2023November 30, 2030
Term running
Recorded purchasing authority
Purchasing authority, verbatim
NO OTHER SOURCE

Sole-source is a lawful procurement path that requires a waiver or commission approval. The wording above is the register’s, unedited. See every contract awarded under Sole-source waivers →

Sources
This contract in the source
Raw rows (JSON, data.sfgov.org)