PROCUREMENT PROCESS IN

PROCUREMENT PROCESS IN HEALTH FACILITIES:

Procurement management
Is the strategic approach to managing and optimizing organizational spend and it involves
acquiring quality goods and services from preferred vendors within a stipulated budget, on or
before the deadline.

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Procurement
Is the process of acquiring goods or services from specified vendor. While purchasing is the art
of buying goods or services at the market.

 The procurement process begins with selection and forecasting and quantification of product
requirement.
 It includes the development of exacting product specifications, identification of financing, and
budget process to secure that financing
STEPS FOR PROCUREMENT PROCESS

Preparation of tender documents

Management of the bidding process
Preparation awards
Management of the contracts
Quality assurance processes
Management and function in the process
PROCUREMENT PLANNING
The procurement process begins with determining which products to order,
estimating needs, quantifying purchases, and ensuring that financing is available.

Selection and forecasting

The Procurement process begins with product selection. Recognizing that the
financial resources and system capacity required to achieve a full supply of all
products in are often inadequate, decisions must be made to determine which
products should be given priority.
 Decisions on procurement quantities and shipments schedules are based to make procurement
on forecasts and quantifications that are done using logistics information, demographic data, and
health services statistics.

 Note: These forecasts usually are conducted annually and used to make procurement decisions.