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Vizient, Inc.

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The Vizient, Inc. profile · All research

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.

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