Health · Healthcare & Policy · 3 hrs ago
Mexico awards 34.4 billion pesos in medicine and medical supply contracts
Mexico’s Health Ministry and Birmex completed a third public tender for medicines and health supplies for 2027 and 2028.
The awards cover 673 product categories and 997.6 million items, worth 34.398 billion pesos.
The goods include medicines, laboratory and radiology materials, and wound-care supplies for public health institutions.
Competitive supplier auctions cut costs by 7.1 billion pesos in this tender.
Across all three tenders so far, the authorities say nearly 90% of needed product categories are covered.
The three rounds have awarded close to 5 billion items in total.
A fourth tender is planned for later this year to cover the remaining categories, while officials prepare to receive, store and distribute the awarded supplies.
Mexico’s Health Ministry and Birmex awarded contracts worth 34.398 billion pesos in the third public tender for medicines and health supplies for 2027–2028.
The awards cover 673 product categories, representing 997.6 million items.
The tender included medicines, laboratory and radiological materials, and other health supplies.
A discount-bidding mechanism reduced costs by 7.1 billion pesos.
The three tenders completed so far cover nearly 90% of the categories required by the health sector for 2027 and 2028.
- Who
- Mexico’s Health Ministry and Laboratorios de Biológicos y Reactivos de México (Birmex).
- What
- They awarded 673 product categories in a public tender for medicines and health supplies, at a total value of 34.398 billion pesos.
- When
- The tender was concluded in 2026; the contracts are for supplies needed in 2027–2028.
- Where
- Mexico.
- Why
- To meet public health institutions’ needs and support timely supplies of medicines and health products.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The Health Ministry and Birmex concluded the third tender, awarding 673 product categories.
The procedures had covered nearly 90% of the categories required for 2027 and 2028.
The remaining categories are planned to be included in a fourth tender during the year.
The corresponding contracts are to be formalized within a maximum of 20 days.
- Award value
- 34.398 billion pesos
- Product categories awarded
- 673
- Items awarded
- 997.6 million
- Cost reduction
- 7.1 billion pesos
- Coverage after three tenders
- Nearly 90% of categories required for 2027–2028