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CoreTrust

3 published pieces mention CoreTrust, newest first. Each links to the full analysis.

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The Big Three GPOs Compared

October 18, 2026 · for subscribers

Editor's note, from GPO Intel: contributed by a member of the GPO Intel expert network and published as written. The author advises a private equity firm; the views are his own.

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

October 4, 2026

CoreTrust's homepage carried two member counts side by side for fifteen months: total members and spending members. Between March 2025 and June 2026 the total it published rose from 3,500+ to 3,700+ while the spending count stayed at 3,500+ in all fifteen readable captures. Over the same span its spend figure never moved off $7 billion. The twentieth-anniversary release of September 29, 2026 reports "more than 4,000 impact-driven members" and does not carry the spending count at all.

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

September 20, 2026 · for subscribers

Six GPO chief executives have left since 2015. From public records: none returned to the GPO world, and none to a health system. The three with a public next role went to private equity, public company boards, and government, then advisory work. Two have no public next role on record; the sixth appears on LinkedIn as founder of an AI startup and an operating advisor to a technology firm.

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