GPO Intel research
6 published pieces mention Alliant Purchasing, newest first. Each links to the full analysis.
The Alliant Purchasing profile · All research
September 18, 2026 · for subscribers
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.
August 18, 2026 · for subscribers
Teardown #7 — What Premier Actually Sold, and What It Kept > The agreement that priced the divestiture was never sealed and never fought over. It has been on EDGAR since June 2023, and it answers questions the litigation only gestures at: what was sold, who sold it, what was deliberately left behind — and the multiple that priced it. ## The document nobody read
August 18, 2026 · for subscribers
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. Alliant's 2024 agreement contains a clause that would surprise most people who hold that belief: a documented right to compete against the network it's contracted with, triggered by the sponsor's own judgment about price. Here is the clause, word by word — including the part previously thought to be sealed, which isn't. The claim, up front. Section 3.5 of the 2024 NHH sponsor participation agreement — the template Alliant signed in January 2024, and the template at the center of both lawsuits — carries a heading most people in the industry would not expect to find in a GPO contract: "Member's Right to Source." It provides that, notwithstanding anything else in the agreement, and even where a supplier maintains a one-GPO policy, when a Premier program contract "is not materially competitive, with respect to pricing as related to purchasing volume, (as determined by Member)," the sponsor may source, negotiate, and enter its own supplier agreement — a "Member Supplier GPO Agreement." Inside a contract otherwise built to bind the sponsor tightly, §3.5 preserves a documented right to compete against the network the sponsor is contracted with.
August 18, 2026 · for subscribers
Alliant, Premier and OMNIA tell the court the talks are still going — and ask for fourteen more days
August 18, 2026
Still talking: Alliant, Premier and OMNIA ask the court for fourteen more days
July 28, 2026
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.
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