The vendor is required to provide that of the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children is to improve the health and nutritional status of women, infants, and children during critical times of growth and development.
-The issuance and redemption of prescribed foods and cash for allowable fruits and vegetables.
system shall be available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year in production, training, and test environments:
•The eWic system shall be available to accept account set-up messages/files 24 x 7.
•The eWic system shall be available to accept benefit issuance messages/files 24 x 7.
•The eWic system shall be available to card issuance messages/files 24 x 7.
•the eWic system shall have provisions for 24 x 7 system monitoring and problem correction.
-The eWic processor shall establish secure, high performance connectivity between the eWic  system and the mis to accommodate available and reliable message-based and file-based system interfaces.
-The eWic processor shall establish secure, high-performance connectivity between the eWic production and eWic fail over systems and the mis production system.
-The e eWic women, infants, and children (wic) processor shall establish secure, high-performance connectivity between the eWic production and fail over system and the mis disaster recovery system.
-The following message-based functions shall be supported:
•Add or update benefits
•Get benefit balance
•Get benefit maintenance history
•Get benefit redemption history
•Add cardholder/card function
•Add or update pin function
•Cardholders/cards function
•Get card history
-The following batch file-based functions shall be supported:
•Report card updates
•Add or update vendor
•Update eWic vendor operational status
•Add or update category /subcategory information
•Add or update information
•Report eWic benefit redemptions
•Request ach payment
•Report ach payments
•Batch file confirmation
-The eWic system shall accept a confirmation from the sending party that a batch file was received.
-The wic category sub-category file will be a change only file.
-The eWic system shall be able to limit access or view of account information for user profiles based on account type. for example, a clinic user would not be able to view training or compliance accounts based on their user profile.
-The mis will transmit an add/update benefits message to issue (credit) or void (debit) benefits.
-The eWic system shall validate the products and units are available within the benefit balance.
-Contract Period/Term: 3 years