Strategic contracting practices to improve procurement of health commodities
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Strategic contracting practices to improve procurement of health commodities
Public-sector entities responsible for procurement of essential medicines and health commodities in developing countries often lack the technical capacity to efficiently ensure supply security. Under strict public scrutiny and pressures to be transparent, many agencies continue to use archaic procurement methods and to depend on inflexible forecasts and cumbersome tendering processes. On the ba...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Health: Science and Practice
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2169-575X
DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-14-00068