Developing a new procurement category for IT Services.
Developing a new procurement category for IT Services.
2 PagesThe Challenge Premier is the leading Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) in the United States, serving more than 3,750 hospitals and 130,000 other healthcare sites; holding the broadest contract portfolio in the industry. As Premier embarked on a new frontier, they required additional procurement and new category development for IT Services. These included hardware and software contracts, across the following core categories: Ambulatory EMR Software, Enterprise Data Storage Solutions, Hardware and Software Asset Management, Data Security Solutions, Interactive Patient Registration Kiosks and Speech-to-Text Technology. The Approach Procure4 took full responsibility of new category development. Market research was conducted across all new categories to identify the optimal supplier solutio
