Pharmaceutical & Medical Consumables Procurement

INTRODUCTION

The Guangzhou Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) Platform for Pharmaceuticals and Medical Consumables, under Guangzhou Exchange Group (hereinafter referred to as "Guangzhou GPO Platform"), was officially established in 2018. Guided by the medical insurance authorities of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, it provides group purchasing services for pharmaceuticals and medical consumables to nearly 2,000 medical institutions in Guangdong Province and 37 military cadre sanatoriums of the Provincial Military Command.
Its service scope covers 17 cities in the province, including Guangzhou, Foshan, Qingyuan, Maoming, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing, Yangjiang, Shaoguan, Huizhou, Shanwei, Shantou, Meizhou, Zhanjiang, and Heyuan. Since its establishment, the transaction volume has exceeded 170 billion yuan, and the cumulative burden relieved for the public has surpassed 30 billion yuan. Currently, it accounts for over 50% of the total pharmaceutical procurement scale in Guangdong Province.

The Guangzhou GPO Platform always bears in mind the overarching national interests and fosters a people-centered commitment. It gives full play to the leading role of pharmaceutical bidding and procurement in deepening the supply-side reform of medical services, and has established a procurement mechanism featuring the integration of bidding and procurement, linkage between procurement volume and price, fairness and transparency, and coordination and efficiency. This mechanism has standardized, institutionalized, and normalized pharmaceutical procurement, created a fair, transparent, convenient, and efficient public procurement market environment, effectively curbed the problem of artificially high pharmaceutical prices, promoted the high-quality development of the pharmaceutical industry, ensured that the public has access to high-quality and affordable medical services, and helped address the issues of difficulty and high cost of medical treatment.
Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guangzhou GPO Platform fully supported epidemic prevention and control efforts, successively conducting multiple rounds of joint adjustments to nucleic acid testing prices. This effectively reduced the cost of epidemic prevention and control, bringing tangible a sense of happiness and gain to the people.

SERVICES

Pharmaceutical Trading
In accordance with the work requirements of "government organization, alliance-based procurement, and platform operation", a regularized and institutionalized mechanism for group pharmaceutical procurement has been established. This mechanism aims to better serve medical and pharmaceutical institutions in our city and other cities within the province, and promote the high-quality development of group pharmaceutical procurement in Guangdong Province.
Medical Consumables Trading
Establish a procurement and trading mechanism for medical consumables among medical institutions in Guangzhou, implement classified procurement of medical consumables, ensure that medical consumables are of reliable quality and reasonable price, and guarantee the stable and timely supply of medical consumables.
Medical Equipment Trading
Standardize the management of medical equipment entry transactions in hospitals, promote the standardized operation of entry transaction work, and advance medical equipment trading.
Trading of TCM Formula Granules
It has taken the lead in carrying out the registration of enterprises related to TCM formula granules and the application work for such pharmaceuticals in the province, further promoting the inheritance, preservation of essence and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and guiding the healthy development of the industry.
Trading for Designated Retail Pharmacies of Medical Insurance
In accordance with relevant requirements, it shall strengthen and standardize the management of designated retail pharmacies of medical insurance in the relevant cities.
Trading under the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Medicine and Medical Device Connect
A dedicated zone for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Medicine and Medical Device Connect has been launched to realize the "on-demand procurement upon listing" mechanism. This has further enriched and secured the sense of fulfillment, happiness, and security of patients in the Greater Bay Area regarding access to medications and medical devices.
Pharmaceutical Payment Settlement Services
It conducts online settlement for pharmaceutical procurement payments, provides pharmaceutical payment settlement platform services for all parties involved in transactions, and manages funds in online supervision accounts in accordance with relevant regulations.
Rare Disease Drug Search
Under the guidance of the Guangdong Provincial Pharmaceutical Affairs Committee, it centrally collects drugs for rare diseases, supports the query of basic information and the reverse query of drugs by indication, and helps rare disease patients obtain a reliable query channel.
Online Pharmaceutical Financing
Based on and in line with the actual situations of various medical institutions as well as pharmaceutical production and distribution enterprises, it coordinates with banks to formulate scientific and reasonable financing plans, increases credit support, and helps medical institutions, pharmaceutical production and distribution enterprises address the issues of difficulty in obtaining financing and high financing costs.
County-level Medical Consortium
It effectively addresses the difficulty of drug delivery in remote areas, realizes a full-chain closed loop for "invoices, accounts, goods, and payments", and activates the medical consortium function on the platform.
Credit Evaluation
For enterprises that violate regulations, it conducts inquiries via correspondence (or telephone), holds interviews, verifies relevant circumstances, reminds and requires them to make corrections, and urges pharmaceutical enterprises to set reasonable prices in accordance with the principles of fairness, reasonableness, good faith, and consistency between quality and price.
Tools and Services
Provide business consulting services, as well as information, technical support and other related services.