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SubscribersCencora is buying 350 oncology prescribers for $2.4 billion. Its own 10-K says ten customers are 66 percent of its revenue.On October 21, 2026, Cencora signed a definitive agreement to acquire American Oncology Network, a physician led network of more than 350 oncology providers across 21 states, at anM&AContracts & awardsNon-acuteAnalyzing GPO awards season after Premier's Breakthroughs: Vizient rewrote its award criteria, and Premier rewarded pricing predictabilityPremier 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 pContracts & awardsCoreTrust added members for fifteen months and none of them were spending membersCoreTrust's homepage carried two member counts side by side for fifteen months: total members and spending members.Contracts & awardsMembershipSubscribersVizient's supplier awards land Tuesday night; Premier's Breakthroughs moves to October, its first as a private companyVizient 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.LeadershipContracts & awardsSubscribersSourcewell renews its Arizona construction contract, its third state this yearGordian announced the renewal on September 17, the third state this year. The contract lets Arizona local governments, schools and nonprofits buy repairs, renovations and constructContracts & awardsSubscribersPremier and the Alliant lawsuits: where the record standsTwo 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 LitigationContracts & awardsSubscribersWhat Premier Actually Sold, and What It KeptTeardown 7 — What Premier Actually Sold, and What It Kept The agreement that priced the divestiture was never sealed and never fought over.LitigationM&AContracts & awardsSubscribersThe Escape Hatch: The Clause That Lets a Sponsor Walk Around Its Own GPOTeardown 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 iLitigationContracts & awardsFees & economicsThe August 17 Status Report: What It SaysStill 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 aLitigationContracts & awardsDo 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.LitigationContracts & awardsFees & economics