Medical Equipment – Procurement

Facility name: Medical Equipment Lessons Learned

Lesson Learned/Best Practice

HPG has established a quarterly group buy program which offers the potential of additional discounts on certain categories of equipment.  These group buy opportunities offer additional discounts over and above HPG contract pricing.  In return for the additional discounts, there is a window of when the PO must be isused and when the equipment must be delivered.  ME Managers receive the quarterly categories of group buys available and if the time window fits within the construction schedule, they work with HPG to get pricing concessions.

Suggested Actions for Future Projects

ME Managers will assess these group buy opportunites on a project by project basis and will take advantage of any group buy opportunity that fits within the timeline of the project schedule. 

Facility name: Medical Equipment Lessons Learned

Lesson Learned/Best Practice

Soma is a HPG contract vendor that sell refurbished equipment for significantly less costs than new.  A number of these items are the same make and model that MEM purchases new today.  MEM has obtained a listing of HCA facilities (Acute Care & ASD) that have purchased refurb equipment using RCap funds. 

Suggested Actions for Future Projects

If a ME Manager has a corporate construction project at a facility that has utilized Soma for refurbished equipment previously utilizing RCap funds, ME Manager can bring forth opportunity to utilize refurb equipment for the corporate project.  Additionally, if a project is having a budget problems, the use of refurbished equipment is a lever to procure same type equipment at a lower costs.    

Facility name: Medical Equipment Lessons Learned

Lesson Learned/Best Practice

ME Manager will look for opportunties to bundle/bid like equipment items either within their projects or combine with other ME Managers projects to pursue additional cost saving over and above HPG contract pricing

Suggested Actions for Future Projects

Bundling/Bidding equipment items by ME Managers are utilized whenever possible and the additional savings are logged in the Impact Tracking in e-Builder