Health Care Procurement Planning

Introduction In the forever growing world of health care risk management, anticipates the risk is crucial to help the health care organization by minimizing the exposure of adverse risk event to the safety of the patients, staff, and other visitors to the health care organization. Risk is defined as an event of probability of happening which could have either a positive of negative impact on the health care organization should the risk event occur. Risk event could have the probability of causing one or more risk at the same time if the adverse risk event should occur and could also have one or more impact on the health care organization. For example, a health care organization skipped last month’s maintenance evaluation, this could put potential …show more content…
In the article, Managing in the Procurement Process reference to steps that need to be done in order to have a procurement process completed. First step would be identifying the adverse risk event and taking into consideration the financial and legal standpoint of the adverse risk event. Second step, develop a specification to narrow the likelihood of the adverse risk event to happen. Third step, the preparation of the procurement plan has to have specific procedural steps to prepare a contract. Fourth step chose an appropriate procedure service to fit the needs of the procurement plan. Using outside source might be less expensive and more beneficial for the health care organization under certain circumstances. Fifth step, publicize the procurement with solicitation bids. The solicitation bid should be meeting the requirement of laws and should take into considers the nature of the adverse risk event being procured and likelihood of the advertising target of health care organization. The six step would be the award to consider composition for the committee related to the transparency and integrity of the procurement process. Last step, the post award is the event where the review of the procurement plan to determine if the adverse risk event has been addressed. (August 1, …show more content…
The submitting of the appropriate requirements for the procurement process needs to be approving for the procurement actions can be set into place. The general idea of what is required for the procurement process to start working usually consider in the planning process. At this point in the procurement process the technical competent and terms of references would be sent to the procuring entity to start the procurement requisition of the process. During the procuring process the requirements are reviewed by the technical specifications and terms of references are completed. ( J, Lych. Procurement Requisition Processing). It is extremely important to have great detail description of the requirements need for the procurement process to ensure all prospective services providers have the same understanding of the procurement process requirements. Having a correct technical specifications and terms of reference determines the whole procurement process which will avoid any disappointments and waste of resources in services. This steps set the ground work for the procurement plan being done correctly and will increase the procurement plan objective and goals. Once this part in the process is clearly understood by the health care organization with the accordance with procurement plan the solicitation process can