A large batch of consumables will be reduced in price.

According to the "Notification", Fujian has initiated maintenance work on information related to the procurement of selected products for the provincial consortium on sugar metabolism and biochemistry testing reagents and absorbable suture全省性联盟, with information reporting dates from March 19 to March 25, 2025. This indicates that the price reduction achievements of the two consortiums' procurement are about to be officially implemented in Fujian.

The sugar metabolism inter-provincial alliance centralized procurement is part of the national centralized procurement project for 2024, led by Jiangxi and covering 27 provinces nationwide. This includes biochemical diagnostic tests for sugar metabolism, trace elements, blood lipids and lipoproteins, liver function, pancreas-related functions, and kidney function, with an average price reduction of 70% for the selected products.

The provincial alliance centralized procurement for absorbable sutures is led by Nanping, Fujian, with participation from the entire province (excluding Longyan). A total of 48 products were selected from 25 enterprises. Among the six product groups in this procurement, four groups had a selection rate of 100%. The selection rate for the single-strand ordinary non-antimicrobial agent product group was 69.23%, while the selection rate for the multi-strand non-antimicrobial agent product group was 58.62%.

Recently, apart from Fujian, many other places have issued procurement execution messages.

Starting from March 20, 2025, Qinghai will release the results of the collective procurement for the fifth batch of national procurement, as well as the selected products for vascular tissue closure ligation clamps, Guangdong Alliance ultrasound blades, and Zhejiang Alliance breast spinning needles.

Starting from March 15, 2025, Guangdong will implement the procurement results of the alliance procurement for vascular tissue closure ligation clips, with a procurement cycle of 2 years.

The People's Liberation Army Medical Sciences and Technology Association of the Chinese People's Liberation Army announced on April 1, 2025 that it will continue the procurement for the 2025 "One Medical Equipment and Supplies for Rural Hospitals" program in conjunction with the Medical Supplies Association for Rural Hospitals.

With large-scale centralized procurement covering over 20 provinces successively implemented, the consumables market is about to face a new round of price shocks. Judging from the signals released by both the central and local governments since the beginning of the year, the price reduction storm of centralized procurement will continue in 2025.

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Aortic stent, high-frequency electric knife head...‍

On January 17th, the National Medical Insurance Administration held a press conference titled "Ensuring People's Health and Empowering Economic Development," during which it was mentioned that in the second half of the year, the sixth batch of centralized procurement for high-value medical consumables will be conducted. Additionally, there will be approximately 20 national alliance procurements at the local level, featuring professional characteristics, including traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicinal herbs, and high-value consumables.

Recently, various regions in China have disclosed their 2025 pharmaceutical and medical supplies collective procurement plans, with the specific directions of work for this year clarified, and the scope and scale becoming increasingly clear.

several regions have already launched related projects. Heilongjiang announced plans to lead the collective procurement of venous filters and ablation electrodes; Hebei has clarified that it will lead the collective procurement of thoracic aortic and abdominal aortic stents; Sichuan has publicly sought opinions on a file for banded purchasing of cerebral spinal fluid shunt systems; Guangxi has clearly stated that it will lead inter-provincial alliance procurement of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture instruments; Hunan has stated that it will lead the nationwide collective procurement of high-frequency electric knife heads.

Fujian Province has proposed that cities with the necessary conditions should undertake at least one provincial alliance centralized procurement task for common medical consumables. Recently, this proposal has made progress. On March 14, the Zhangzhou Medical Insurance Bureau of Fujian released a notice titled "Notice on Soliciting Opinions on the 'Zhangzhou City General Medical Consumables Centralized Volume Procurement Document (Draft for Comments)'," which involves the procurement of two types of consumables: disposable medical pads and needles for use with insulin pens.

The statistics for the ongoing and upcoming procurement of consumables this year are as follows:

For example, the cerebrospinal fluid shunt systems, which have long been monopolized by foreign brands in Sichuan's collective procurement, saw only 4 companies selected in the 2023 collective procurement initiative by the Henan Neurology Surgery Alliance, namely Medtronic, Intégra, Cristoforo Mitioco, and French Sophysa, which are among the few companies currently approved in this field.

After many ups and downs, the aortic stent has finally returned to the procurement team. From the list of participating companies disclosed in the latest product presentation meeting, all the well-known domestic and international companies in this field have attended. If listed in the national joint procurement project as planned last year, the market landscape of domestic aortic stents will undergo a complete transformation.

For enterprises, the pressure to reduce prices through centralized procurement is undeniable, but its positive effects on hospital entry, volume guarantees, and payment collection are also gradually becoming apparent. The old market logic has been rewritten, and a new competition has begun.