A procurement manager at a regional hospital group once told us her costliest sourcing mistake had nothing to do with price. Her team had selected a new supplier for bed sheets and pillowcases after a smooth sample round: the fabric felt right, the stitching looked clean, the quote was competitive. Four months into the contract, …
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Most hospital linen projects that go wrong do not fail at the supplier — they fail at the timeline. A hospital group in Southeast Asia once signed a 40,000-piece contract eight weeks before a new wing opened. The linen arrived three weeks late, twenty percent short, and the fitted sheets did not fit the beds. …
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A procurement manager at a regional hospital group once showed me two bids for the same bed linen contract. The winning bid was eleven percent higher than the cheapest. She chose it anyway, and her reasoning was one sentence long: “The cheap one could not prove a single claim on its certificate page.” In hospital …
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