The procurement of six major medical consumables is coming, and a large wave of consumables will usher in price reductions

【Pharmaceutical Network Industry News】Recently, Taiyuan Medical Insurance Management Service Center issued the "Taiyuan-Jinzhong-Xinzhou-Luliang Medical Institutions 2022 Medical Consumables Centralized Negotiation and Procurement Project Negotiation and Procurement Announcement" (hereinafter referred to as the "Announcement"
).
There are six categories of consumables purchased in this centralized negotiation, divided into 13 procurement packages, including: high-pressure contrast syringes, pulse irrigators, disposable central venous catheters (CVC), disposable sputum suction tubes (with sterile gloves), disposable nebulizers, and disposable drainage bags
.
According to the announcement, the estimated procurement quantity of this volume procurement project is estimated
according to 70% of the estimated total procurement of public medical institutions in Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Xinzhou and Luliang.
According to the price bargaining efforts in the past, the industry believes that the purchase of a large number of products will usher in a price
reduction.
It is understood that in July last year, Taiyuan-Jinzhong-Xinzhou-Lüliang four cities jointly purchased anesthesia medical consumables, of which analgesic devices, tracheal intubation, laryngeal masks, anesthesia masks, anesthesia puncture kits, respiratory filters, respiratory circuit tubes and other 7 varieties of 16 specifications and 468 products achieved price reduction, with an average reduction of 57.
68%, and the high reduction rate reached 94.
7%.

In fact, with the continuous expansion of the procurement margin with volume, the number of collective procurement faces is increasing day by day, and the price of medical consumables continues to bottom out, and the frequency and types of collective procurement carried out by "groups" in various places are also increasing
.
It is reported that since the beginning of this year, many places have also announced that they will purchase medical consumables
alliances.
For example, recently, the website of the Shaanxi Provincial Public Resources Exchange Center shows that according to the "Implementation Plan for the Centralized Procurement of Orthodontic Brackets of the Inter-provincial Alliance (District, Corps)", it was decided to carry out the centralized procurement of orthodontic brackets in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Henan, Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou, Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and other provinces (autonomous regions, production and construction corps), and the Shaanxi Provincial Public Resources Trading Center is responsible for the specific organization and implementation
。 Prior to this, Anhui also announced that Bengbu City took the lead in organizing to launch the first batch of general consumables with quantity procurement, including disposable double-tube throat masks, integrated humidified atomized nasal (inhalation) oxygen tubes and atomization inhalers
.
In addition, the Shenzhen Public Resources Exchange Center also issued the "Centralized Procurement Document of Eight Types of Medical Consumables Alliance for Disposable Intravenous Indwelling Needles (Draft for Comments)" and the "Regional Centralized Procurement Document for Medical Consumables Alliance for Indwelling Needle Dressing (Draft for Comments)"
some time ago.
In general, while the collection of medical consumables is becoming more and more abundant, the procurement body is also growing, from the municipal alliance to the inter-provincial alliance purchasing group, the past disorderly consumables market, especially low-priced consumables are constantly moving towards concentration in a round of bargaining
.
The industry believes that in this context, the accelerated reshuffle of the market will be inevitable, and the competitive advantage of the head machinery companies may be fully amplified
in centralized procurement.
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