ABOUT PROCURE
Procure’s goal is to make current healthcare procurement practices more resilient and efficient across the European Union, and to ensure that public health and care procurement systems can respond to future emergency crises & pandemics.
By identifying how procurement strategies, plans, policies and processes were incorporated into public procurement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be able to detail the lessons learned for healthcare procurement in response to emergency crises and make considered recommendations to strengthen the capabilities of healthcare procurers.
OVERVIEW
PROCURE is an EU Project that brings together 26 partners from 13 EU countries, including public and private organisations (public buyers, central purchasing bodies, regional health agencies, alliance of private hospitals, vendors, etc.) and other supporting organisations involved in healthcare public procurement, to undertake an assessment of public procurement practices to ensure they are managed effectively and efficiently.
The PROCURE assessment will focus on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on procurement organisations and practices from the 13 participating EU Member Sites. By means of comparison with the procurement processes prior to the pandemic, PROCURE will determine what changed and identify new strategies, action plans and policies that have been incorporated into public procurement as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
OBJECTIVES
Through the work in the project we will:
Undertake a thorough assessment of healthcare public procurement practices in the EU to enable them to be managed more effectively & precisely.
Facilitate healthcare public procurement organisations and policy makers to gauge & track their state of readiness and identify opportunities for improvement in procurement processes in response to future emergencies and pandemics.
Identify lessons learnt from the health and care procurement responses to COVID-19 and outline new or improved national and regional strategies on public procurement.