; (B) the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, with respect to determining the volume of essential generic medicines needed domestically; and (C) the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and, as appropriate, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, regarding coordination with the strategic national stockpile. (2) Reporting by FDA The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall provide to the Secretary the information collected under section 510(j)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, for purposes of carrying out this section. (e) Contracting (1) In general In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall— (A) prioritize the purchase of active pharmaceutical ingredients and other key starting materials manufactured in the United States by domestic manufacturers to the maximum extent possible; (B) contract with domestic entities for the— (i) distribution of active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished drug products; (ii) storage, withdrawal, testing, and conversion of active pharmaceutical ingredients and other key starting materials; (iii) tracking and coordinating the storage, testing, and sale of active pharmaceutical ingredients and other key starting materials; (iv) sale of active pharmaceutical ingredients in advance of their expiration dates; and (v) manufacturing, including continuous manufacturing as appropriate, of an active pharmaceutical ingredient or other key starting material of an essential generic medicine that is anticipated to be in shortage, as defined by the Secretary for purposes of this section; (C) give preference to domestic nonprofit and public-private partnerships, as appropriate; (D) ensure geographic diversity of the physical storage of active pharmaceutical ingredients and other key starting materials; (E) support domestic manufacturers of active pharmaceuticals and other key starting materials and facilitate long-term domestic capacity for essential generic medicines in the United States