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A Bon Secours Mercy affiliate is buying Surgery Partners, a HealthTrust member. Bon Secours runs its own GPO.

October 28, 2026 · for subscribers

On October 26, 2026, HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of Bon Secours Mercy Health, agreed to buy Surgery Partners for an enterprise value of about $5.7 billion and take it private. Surgery Partners runs 178 surgical facilities in 30 states, and its own procurement page names its group purchasing organization: "our GPO, HealthTrust." Bon Secours Mercy runs its own GPO, Advantus Health Partners. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027.

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.

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

October 14, 2026

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 weeks earlier, Vizient rewrote what its supplier awards are for, adding supply chain resiliency and non-acute care to the criteria. And in Vizient's 2024, 2025 and 2026 awards, no category went to the same supplier two years running.

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

October 4, 2026

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. Across those 24, twenty-two open jobs exist to manage the commercial relationship between a supplier and a group purchasing organization. Nineteen are at suppliers. The GPOs and their affiliates have 343 open roles between them and three of these. Computed October 4, 2026, from 397 open requisitions.

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

October 2, 2026 · for subscribers

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. One partnership has a name from twelve days earlier: Pandion Optimization Alliance's agreement to acquire the non-acute affiliate business, which excluded the acute business by its own terms. As of October 2, 2026, neither company has named where the acute membership goes.

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

September 23, 2026 · for subscribers

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. Vizient announced $1 billion over four years, an enterprise platform under its Data and Digital president, and three supply chain solutions under its Spend Management president.

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.

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

September 20, 2026 · for subscribers

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. Premier meets outside Washington on October 6, its first Breakthroughs since going private. Below: the day-by-day announcement schedule for both, last year's winners, and the suppliers that win at more than one GPO.

Premier and the Alliant lawsuits: where the record stands

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.

What Premier Actually Sold, and What It Kept

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

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

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.

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