A new public procurement system for medicines will create conditions for large domestic and foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers so that they could participate in it, Health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili has said at a meeting of the Health Ministry public council.
“We’ve eliminated all the barriers that prevented large companies, international and domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers, from participating in tenders and stimulated the emergence of intermediaries,” he said.
Among such barriers Kvitashvili, in particular, named uniting in one lot of medicines from different producers, which stimulated the participation of intermediaries and distributors in bidding and did not allow producers to directly participate in tenders.
Kvitashvili also said that the Ministry of Health plans in 2015 to carry out public procurement as much as possible through international organizations and in 2016 to pass 100% of purchases to them.
However, he expressed hope that the start of trading would be announced next week or in ten days after the needs of the regions are determined.
