Do public hospitals have to invite tenders?

In the daily procurement activities of hospitals, there are many business scenarios that interact with suppliers and bid evaluation experts. Under the strong infectivity of novel coronavirus, in order to ensure the orderly development of hospital procurement, it is naturally the first choice for major public hospitals to transfer offline business to online. Hospital bidding is usually initiated by hospital material management department or purchasing department. These departments will make material procurement plans and determine the scope of procurement according to the actual needs of hospitals. In the process of bidding, hospital leaders can participate in decision-making, approval and other links, but do not directly initiate bidding. In hospital bidding, all departments usually put forward their own needs to the material management department or the procurement department, but the real bidding decision-making power and operation power still belong to the material management department or the procurement department. These departments will be responsible for drafting, publishing, auditing, winning the bid, signing the contract and a series of work.

Bidding Procedures Drug distributors in public medical institutions need to go through the bidding procedures, and the specific procedures are as follows:

1, tender announcement The medical institution issues a tender announcement, explaining the procurement demand, tender method, document collection, tender deadline, bid opening time and place, etc.

2. Preparation and submission of bid documents The bidder shall prepare complete bid documents, including tender, commercial tender and technical tender, and submit them within the specified time.

3. Bid Evaluation The bid evaluation committee reviews the bidding documents submitted by bidders, namely, commercial bidding documents, technical bidding documents and price bidding documents, and scores the qualifications, reputation, technical ability, service quality, drug quality and price of bidders.

4. Publicity of bid-winning results The bid evaluation committee determines the winning bidder according to the bid evaluation results, publicizes the bid-winning results, and notifies the unsuccessful bidders at the same time.

5. Signing a contract The medical institution signs a drug distribution contract with the winning bidder, stipulating the delivery period, delivery standard, drug quality and price.

To sum up, hospital bidding is a complicated process, which requires the coordination of various departments and compliance with relevant laws, regulations and rules. Among them, the hospital's material management department and procurement department are the leading parties in bidding, while the hospital's leaders are the auxiliary and supervisory roles.

Legal basis:

Notice on actively responding to the epidemic situation, innovating and doing well the bidding work to ensure the stable operation of the economy

Timely suspend the on-site trading activities of the bidding project, implement online processing, and reduce the requirements for being present. During the year, online bidding and bid opening for all projects that must be tendered according to law will be realized.

Notice on actively responding to the epidemic situation, innovating and doing well the bidding work to ensure the stable operation of the economy

It is necessary to effectively ensure the smooth progress of procurement projects related to epidemic prevention and control. If the construction projects such as emergency medical facilities and isolation facilities urgently needed for epidemic prevention and control meet the provisions of Article 66 of the Bidding Law, there is no need for bidding, and the owner adopts non-bidding procurement, or shortens the relevant time limit requirements during bidding.

According to the change of epidemic prevention and control situation, the urgency of the project and the demand of market participants, the work arrangement will be adjusted dynamically in time, and the impact on public resource trading activities such as bidding will be minimized under the premise of ensuring safety.