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Market EditionThe Big Three GPOs ComparedEditor'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. ChAIM&ALeadershipMarket EditionSubscribersYankee Alliance is winding down. Neither it nor Pandion has named a destination for the acute membership.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 aM&ALeadershipMembershipSubscribersPremier put AI under a new chief officer. Vizient put $1 billion behind it.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.AIM&ALeadershipSubscribersEd Jones joins RoundTable. Six GPO chiefs have left since 2015; none returned to the GPO worldSix GPO chief executives have left since 2015. From public records: none returned to the GPO world, and none to a health system.LeadershipSubscribersVizient'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 & awardsSubscribersHSCA names HPS's Michelle Pleiness board chair, succeeding Capstone's Tim BuggHSCA, the GPO industry's Washington trade association, named Michelle Pleiness of HPS its board chair on September 14. She replaces Tim Bugg of Capstone Health Alliance. The changeLeadershipMembership