Meeting with Director of Pharma and Medical Device Department of Tianjin HFPC on Procurement Policies for Disposable Medical Devices

2016-07-12 | Beijing, Tianjin

Meeting with Director of Pharma and Medical Device Department of Tianjin HFPC on Procurement Policies for Disposable Medical Devices

A delegation of the CDMD Advisory Committee of the European Chamber visited Ms Wu Fan, director of the Pharma and Medical Device Department of Tianjin HFPC. 

Ms. Wu briefed the delegation on the purchasing policies in Tianjin. Online transparent procurement has been introduced two years ago with the main target to reduce costs and ensure affordable treatment for Tianjin citizens. This policy has been successful. In a second step centralized procurement on the level of Tianjin municipality or in cooperation with Beijing and Hebei will follow, but there is no timeline for implementation. 

Both sides discussed the challenges in implementing an online platform for centralised procurement covering potentially several then thousand products. The European industry is willing to share their know-how and Tianjin HFPC is welcoming the initiative of the chamber to cooperate to implement best practices in online procurement.