Trust & Sourcing
GPO Intel publishes only what it can attribute to a public, verifiable source. Where a figure is not public, we say so — plainly. We do not estimate, extrapolate, or substitute an industry range for a specific answer we cannot source. Every quantitative claim surfaced by our deep research carries a named source and a date. This standard is the product, not a limitation on it: a sourced “not publicly disclosed” is worth more to a commercial decision than a confident guess.
What We Use
Every claim in our database carries a disclosure classification. Only the first two categories below are ever published or surfaced in research answers.
Public and attributable — cited freely
SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, proxy statements), earnings call transcripts, company press releases and investor presentations, HGPII Public Accountability Questionnaires, GPO websites and publicly posted participation agreements and fee schedules, FOIA and state open-records returns, court filings, regulatory and oversight publications (GAO, OIG, FTC, CMS, state attorneys general), public company announcements, and named-byline trade press. Every figure drawn from these sources is cited inline with the source and its date.
Public but no longer updated — cited with a currency caveat
Figures that were public when issued but are no longer being reported — for example, disclosures from a company that has since gone private — and data old enough that the underlying business may have materially changed. When we use these, the answer states the figure, the source, the date, and the fact that no more recent public reporting exists. We never quietly present a stale figure as current.
What informs us internally — but is never published or surfaced
Licensed third-party research (subscription research platforms, expert-network call transcripts, sell-side equity research) informs our internal understanding and points our team toward primary sources — but it is never surfaced, quoted, paraphrased, or named in anything we publish. Where such material points to a fact that also exists in a public source, we cite the public source. Nonpublic documents — anything marked confidential, received under NDA or in confidence, internal deal documents, non-public member rosters, or supplier-specific pricing — are excluded from our retrievable research corpus entirely: they are kept out of reach of the systems that generate answers, not merely left uncited.
What We Will Never Publish
Confidential contract terms between a GPO and an individual supplier or member — never sourced, published, estimated, or speculated on, regardless of who is asking or why.
Individual supplier or member pricing, rebate terms, or bid amounts.
Non-public member or supplier lists.
Personal information about individuals beyond business-professional data (name, title, employer, public profile).
Estimates, models, or "ballpark" figures offered as a substitute for a specific answer we cannot source. "Not publicly disclosed" is a complete answer.
How We Handle Private Companies
When a company stops reporting publicly, we apply a last-public-figure standard: we state the last publicly reported figure, name the source and date, and state plainly that no public reporting exists after that date. We do not project forward, and we do not extrapolate private-company figures.
Worked example: Premier Inc.
Premier’s last disclosure on member fee share came on its fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter earnings call (August 19, 2025), which guided to a mid-60% aggregate blended member fee share for fiscal 2026. Premier issued one further release — fiscal 2026 first-quarter results on November 4, 2025 — but held no conference call due to its pending acquisition. Patient Square Capital completed its $2.6 billion take-private on November 25, 2025, and Premier was delisted from Nasdaq. No public fee-share reporting exists after that date — so that is exactly where our answers stop. We report the documented history and the fact that reporting ended; we do not guess at what has happened since.
Expert Contributions
GPO Intel runs an Expert Contributor program: healthcare supply-chain professionals, procurement consultants, and former GPO operators voluntarily contribute their perspective. Contributor content is published as attributed opinion— clearly labeled and attributed according to each contributor’s stated preference — never as sourced fact. Expert perspective never substitutes for a public source on a quantitative claim. Every submission is reviewed by our team before it enters the database, and contributors are compensated for their participation. Contributing does not affect how any organization is covered or described on the platform.
Corrections
How to submit
If you believe a figure on GPO Intel is wrong — or you represent an organization we profile and want to flag an inaccuracy — contact us with the profile, the field in question, and (ideally) a pointer to the correct public source.
What happens next
We target an initial response within 5 business days. Every correction is reviewed by our team against primary sources before it changes a profile — nothing is silently overwritten. When a correction is applied, the affected field is updated with its new source citation and a refreshed “last verified” date, visible on the profile.
Non-Solicitation Commitment
GPO Intel does not ask any source — expert, employee, member, supplier, or anyone else — to disclose information that the source is contractually or legally obligated to protect. This applies to NDAs, confidentiality clauses, expert-network terms, and employment obligations alike. If material arrives that a source was not free to share, it does not enter the database.