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Analyzing GPO awards season after Premier's Breakthroughs: Vizient rewrote its award criteria, and Premier rewarded pricing predictability

Premier closed GPO awards season at Breakthroughs 26 on October 8, its first as a private company, giving its Trailblazer Award for a GPO supplier to Stryker for helping "enhance pricing predictability for members." Two…

Hiring Report — Career Edition

What the jobs pay at every level, 29 open roles worth a look, and who is hiring and cutting.

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Hiring Report — Market Edition

The Hiring Pulse, the full salary index, leadership moves, deals, policy and the non-acute spotlight.

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Nineteen of the twenty-two jobs managing a supplier's GPO relationship sit on the supplier side

GPO Intel can read the job boards of 24 of the 254 GPOs, distributors, manufacturers and health systems it tracks, once health systems are set aside.

CoreTrust added members for fifteen months and none of them were spending members

CoreTrust's homepage carried two member counts side by side for fifteen months: total members and spending members.

Yankee Alliance is winding down. Neither it nor Pandion has named a destination for the acute membership.

Yankee Alliance announced a planned wind down on September 29, 2026. Members and services move to "new strategic partnerships" from January 1, 2027, and the release does not name a partner.

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Pandion bought Yankee's non-acute business ten weeks after raising money to buy things. It is Yankee's second sale in two years.

Pandion Optimization Alliance has agreed to acquire Yankee Alliance's non acute affiliate business. Pandion announced a multi hundred million dollar commitment for acquisitions ten weeks earlier.

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Premier put AI under a new chief officer. Vizient put $1 billion behind it.

Premier and Vizient both announced AI work this week. Premier hired a Chief AI and Analytics Officer and put him in a new center reporting to the chief executive.

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Vizient acquires SxanPro, a Grand Rapids startup whose app scans supplies on hospital shelves for expiration dates and recalls. GHX, Cardinal Health and Owens & Minor already own similar capabilities

Vizient closed on SxanPro on September 17. SxanPro is a 2019 Grand Rapids startup; its founder stays on as vice president. GHX, Cardinal Health and Owens & Minor already own comparable inventory capability.

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Ed Jones joins RoundTable. Six GPO chiefs have left since 2015; none returned to the GPO world

Six GPO chief executives have left since 2015. From public records: none returned to the GPO world, and none to a health system.

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Vizient's supplier awards land Tuesday night; Premier's Breakthroughs moves to October, its first as a private company

Vizient meets in Las Vegas from Tuesday; its supplier awards are Tuesday night, and last year the release followed the next morning with Baxter and Philips taking two awards each.

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Sourcewell renews its Arizona construction contract, its third state this year

Gordian announced the renewal on September 17, the third state this year. The contract lets Arizona local governments, schools and nonprofits buy repairs, renovations and construction without bidding each job.

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HSCA names HPS's Michelle Pleiness board chair, succeeding Capstone's Tim Bugg

HSCA, the GPO industry's Washington trade association, named Michelle Pleiness of HPS its board chair on September 14. She replaces Tim Bugg of Capstone Health Alliance. The change Announced September 14.

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Premier and the Alliant lawsuits: where the record stands

Two federal cases and an arbitration, all on hold while the parties negotiate. The next report to the court is due by November 30. Here is what has been decided, what has not, and what each side has said. Premier, Inc.

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What Premier Actually Sold, and What It Kept

Teardown 7 — What Premier Actually Sold, and What It Kept The agreement that priced the divestiture was never sealed and never fought over.

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The Escape Hatch: The Clause That Lets a Sponsor Walk Around Its Own GPO

Teardown 1 — The Escape Hatch: The Clause That Lets a Sponsor Walk Around Its Own GPO Somewhere in your files is an agreement you signed with a GPO, and you believe you know what it lets you do.

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The August 17 Status Report: The Full Analysis

Alliant, Premier and OMNIA tell the court the talks are still going — and ask for fourteen more days Joint status reports landed in both Western District of Kentucky cases on August 17, and neither announces an…

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The August 17 Status Report: What It Says

Still talking: Alliant, Premier and OMNIA ask the court for fourteen more days Joint status reports filed in both Western District of Kentucky cases on August 17 announce neither a settlement nor a breakdown in talks.

Do You Know Which GPO You're Actually Buying Through? These Two Companies Didn't Agree Either — and Now It's in Federal Court.

Two lawsuits, one arbitration, three unsealed contracts, and a status report due to a federal judge by August 17. The whole story, sourced to the docket, in ten minutes.