EU healthcare procurement reform should prioritize quality over price-only bidding, not just buying European
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Summary
The article argues that Europe's healthcare resilience depends less on buying European products and more on reforming procurement practices. It criticizes the EU's focus on favouring European suppliers through initiatives like the Critical Medicines Act and Industrial Accelerator Act, while neglecting the deeper issue of price-only procurement. The author contends that lowest-price bidding undermines innovation, supply security, and patient outcomes, and calls for procurement rules that prioritize quality, value, and long-term sustainability over cost.
Key quotes
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At more than €2.6 trillion in annual public spending, procurement is the single most powerful lever European governments have to shape markets, drive innovation and improve public services.
Buying European is not enough. Europe must buy better.
The problem is not that European suppliers are being overlooked. It is that the procurement system is structurally biased against the very qualities that make European medical technology competitive in the first place.
The choice is not between buying European and buying better. It is between buying better and buying nothing at all.
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