Hefei is soliciting opinions on the continuous procurement of three types of medical consumables, and the centralized procurement of consumables in prefecture level cities continues to accelerate.
3 types of consumables, with purchase renewal upon expiration
On November 7th, the Medical Security Bureau of Hefei City solicited opinions on the draft of the "HFHCDC-2024-1 Concentrated Procurement Document for Some Medical Consumables in Hefei City" (hereinafter referred to as the "Draft for Comments"), which will soon start the continuous procurement work for three types of medical consumables.

The specific procurement varieties and related requirements are as follows:
According to the draft for soliciting opinions, the actual purchase quantity of selected products in each medical institution shall not be less than 80% of the total purchase quantity of the same variety. The procurement entity for this continuation of procurement work is public medical institutions in Hefei city.

The proposed selection rules are as follows:
1. Registration certificates selected for centralized volume based procurement in cities with districts and above, and still in the execution period, with a bid price not higher than the original bid price in our city, and not higher than the lowest bid price for centralized volume based procurement in cities with districts and above, the lowest online price on provincial platforms, and the lowest purchase price for public medical institutions in Anhui province (deadline is October 31, 2024), will be eligible for selection.
2. Registration certificates other than those selected in the past, with a bid price not higher than the lowest price selected according to rule (1) of the same catalog, shall be eligible for provisional selection; If the quoted price is higher than the lowest price but not higher than the average price selected according to rule (1) of the same catalog, it shall be added as an alternative product.

At the same time, according to rule (1), enterprises that have not been selected and whose application price for registration certificate is not higher than the lowest selected price of the enterprise in the directory can also obtain the qualification for provisional selection. The procurement cycle for this continuation of procurement is 2 years from the official implementation of centralized quantity based procurement.

Maximum reduction of 90.02%, saving millions of funds
Under the accelerated promotion of centralized procurement of medical consumables, the competitive landscape of China's consumables market is continuously being rewritten and deepened. From prefecture level market procurement, alliance procurement to national procurement, it has basically covered various commonly used low value consumables in clinical practice as well as high-value consumables in ophthalmology, orthopedics, cardiovascular and other fields.

Especially in the centralized procurement work of prefecture level cities, various large quantities of ordinary medical consumables have achieved significant price reductions. As of July 2024, Anhui Province has carried out centralized quantity based procurement of 30 types of medical consumables, saving approximately 5 billion yuan in procurement funds annually. At the same time, this year, multiple medical insurance bureaus in Anhui Province have taken the lead in carrying out a new round of bulk procurement of medical consumables, involving medical consumables such as vena cava filters, microwave ablation electrodes (needles, knives), occluders and their delivery systems, and disposable nipple incisions.

The continuous centralized procurement to be carried out in Hefei this time includes disposable infusion sets, disposable syringes, and vacuum blood collection tubes. It is reported that in 2022, Hefei City carried out centralized procurement of general medical consumables, targeting the five varieties with high usage in public medical institutions in the city, namely intravenous catheters, disposable infusion sets, disposable syringes, vacuum blood collection tubes, and pre filled catheter irrigators.

In the end, 25 companies and 118 products were selected. From the selected companies and variety structure, the mainstream products commonly used in clinical practice were successfully selected, which not only saved procurement costs but also fully met clinical needs. The average reduction rate of 5 varieties is 52.32%, among which the average reduction rate of disposable infusion sets is 58.27%, with the highest reduction rate of 90.02%; The average reduction rate of disposable syringes is 35.47%, with the highest reduction rate being 49.23%; The average decrease in vacuum blood collection tubes was 41.79%, with the highest decrease being 50%.

According to reports, based on the annual procurement quantity of five types of public medical institutions in Hefei, the original total procurement amount was 44.616 million yuan. According to the price calculation after centralized procurement with quantity, the procurement amount is 10.541 million yuan. It is expected that the city can save 34.075 million yuan in procurement funds annually. This time, Hefei will continue to purchase three types of medical consumables: disposable infusion sets, disposable syringes, and vacuum blood collection tubes, which will continue to save procurement funds for Hefei city.

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