We work with hospitals before the tender starts, and with the suppliers who answer them. Here is what that covers today, and what is coming next.
Every product the hospital buys is scored, using device records from the EU, the US FDA and China with their import and sterilisation rules, together with prices and public procurement records.
We keep three kinds of information apart and label them: what has been verified, what the supplier states, and what has been inferred. A reusable option is not assumed to be better; it is assessed in context.
Help at the stage where needs are defined and options compared: real products and alternatives, unit prices and price ranges across providers, and what comparable public buyers have bought.
We help separate minimum product requirements, bidder qualification, award criteria and execution conditions, so sustainability can become something a tender can actually score and check. Draft documents carry their sources and the checks still pending. Approval stays with the hospital's own people and procedures.
Nobody records how many sterilisation cycles an instrument really goes through, so its lifetime, cost per use and carbon are guesses. We are bringing reuse and lifetime of surgical instruments into the data, so the hospital has evidence and governance over the sustainability impact of what it buys.
Once a better option is chosen, we help coordinate the change: prepare the requests to clinical, procurement, sustainability and facilities colleagues and to suppliers, collect their answers with attribution, and keep track of what has been decided and what is still open.
When a hospital asks for product or environmental information, the supplier receives a single request and can reply with supporting documents. The answer goes straight to the case it belongs to.
Supplier information is shown as supplier-stated, kept apart from what has been verified. Suppliers that can document lifetime, reuse and reprocessing give hospitals something they can put in a specification.
If you buy for a hospital, work on sustainable procurement, or supply instruments that go through sterilisation, we would like to hear how decisions are made where you are. Twenty minutes is enough to start.