Pur­chas­ing in health­care in France: the role of cen­tral pur­chas­ing orga­ni­za­tion Resah, online

France has a strong pub­lic health­care sec­tor with over 1,300 pub­lic hos­pi­tals and 3,000 pub­lic nurs­ing homes. French pub­lic health­care ser­vice providers aim to cen­tral­ize pur­chas­ing activ­i­ties, and today, they are grow­ing­ly man­ag­ing their pro­cure­ment via cen­tral pur­chas­ing orga­ni­za­tions.

Join the webi­nar to learn how French pub­lic hos­pi­tals and nurs­ing homes man­age their pro­cure­ment with Resah, a cen­tral pur­chas­ing orga­ni­za­tion. The Embassy of Fin­land in Paris and Busi­ness Fin­land wel­come you to this webi­nar to dis­cov­er Resah’s activ­i­ties, upcom­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties, and ten­ders. You will also dis­cov­er how for­eign sup­pli­ers can coop­er­ate with the orga­ni­za­tion.

Time: 10 Sep­tem­ber 2024 at 14:30–15:30 (Finnish time)
Place: Microsoft Teams Webi­nar
Reg­is­tra­tions

Resah, a French cen­tral pur­chas­ing orga­ni­za­tion spe­cial­iz­ing in both health­care and med­ical-social sec­tors, is one of the key pro­cure­ment play­ers in the health­care sec­tor in France and Europe. The pro­cure­ment vol­ume through Resah rep­re­sents almost 3B€ annu­al­ly. It offers more than 5 700 pub­lic con­tracts in all the pro­cure­ment seg­ments, cov­er­ing all hos­pi­tal needs: med­ical (phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, med­ical devices, bio­med­ical equip­ment, PPE…) and non-med­ical (ICT solu­tions, cater­ing, ener­gy…), from more than 1,000 sup­pli­ers of which 40% of SMEs. Resah has more than 2,700 ben­e­fi­cia­ries, includ­ing almost all French pub­lic and not-for-prof­it hos­pi­tals, nurs­ing homes, and oth­er pub­lic orga­ni­za­tions like pub­lic health nation­al agen­cies.

PRE­LIM­I­NARY AGEN­DA

• Intro­duc­tion, Hen­ri­ik­ka Yli­heljo, Coun­sel­lor, Trade & Invest­ments, Embassy of Fin­land, Paris
• Pre­sen­ta­tion of Resah and its activ­i­ties, upcom­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and coop­er­a­tion mod­els with sup­pli­ers, Louis Potel, Direc­tor of Inno­va­tion & Inter­na­tion­al Affairs, Resah
• Q&A

Please note that this webi­nar is avail­able only to Finnish com­pa­nies.

Con­tact per­sons

Hen­ri­ik­ka Yli­heljo
Coun­sel­lor, Trade & Invest­ments, Embassy of Fin­land, Paris
henriikka.yliheljo@gov.fi

Ter­hi Ras­mussen
Glob­al Oppor­tu­ni­ty Leader Health, Busi­ness Fin­land
terhi.rasmussen@businessfinland.fi

Prac­ti­cal­i­ties:
Jeni Sär­mäkari
Pro­gram Coor­di­na­tor
jeni.sarmakari@businessfinland.fi

Source: Busi­ness Fin­land