Hospital furniture purchases enter the growth period, the industry segmentation trend is obvious

With the increase in the scale of hospital furniture purchases, the furniture features required by hospitals have entered the market's attention. The hospital purchases furniture with many types, multiple materials, large purchase amount, durable acid and alkali resistance. By analyzing the scale of hospital furniture procurement, procurement characteristics, procurement rules, market status and future procurement trends, we can better understand hospital furniture.

The government procurement market for furniture has shown a trend of segmentation. Hospital furniture has become the third largest market segment after the government procurement market relays office furniture and school furniture. The frequency of hospital furniture purchases across the country is increasing.

“The acceleration of the urbanization process has stimulated the market demand for hospital furniture procurement.” He Fazhen, vice president of the Beijing Furniture Industry Association, made the above judgment.

According to the statistics of the "Government Procurement Information", from January to December 2012, the total procurement scale of hospital furniture in the country was 260 million yuan, including public bidding, competitive negotiation, and inquiry. From January to May 2013, the total purchase of hospital furniture nationwide reached 110 million yuan.

The amount of hospital furniture is large

The hospital purchases furniture with a variety of types, a variety of materials mixed, a large amount of single purchase.

Hospital furniture refers to furniture for hospitals. According to the function, the hospital can be divided into outpatient area, administrative area, logistics area and inpatient area. There are mainly reception halls, examination rooms, waiting areas, disposal rooms, pharmacies, wards, operating rooms, laboratories, nursing centers, supply centers, sewage rooms, baby-friendly areas, stomatology departments, and laboratory departments. Specific categories include office furniture, cabinets, wall cabinets, lockers, function cabinets (desks), beds, nurse stations (tables), clinics (tables), waiting chairs, patient chairs, physician chairs, infusion chairs, activities Side cabinets, various medicine cabinets, returning vehicles, medical records, and other medical functional furniture.

The furniture procurement project of Heping County New People's Hospital of Heyuan City, Guangdong Province divides the purchased furniture into five categories: outpatient building, medical technology building, inpatient building, infectious building and administrative building medical furniture. Among them, the category of furniture purchased by the outpatient building reached 131, a total of 272 kinds of purchases, and the budget purchase amount was 6,945,600 yuan. Taking the bidding for the office furniture project used by the Beijing Anding Hospital affiliated to the Capital Medical University in March 2012 as an example, there were 81 types of furniture purchased, 2977 pieces (group), and the budget amount was 3,074,850 yuan. Purchasing contents include desk, triage nurse station side table, dining table and chair, operation table, bed, laboratory, waiting room, cargo rack, food cart (table), medicine rack, medicine cabinet and various data cabinets.

The evaluation expert He Fazhen explained: “It can be seen that the furniture required by the hospital is actually a combination of office furniture, civil furniture, laboratory furniture, hotel furniture, public furniture, etc. Not the same."

Li Jian, sales director of Hefei Lantian Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd., said that there are many types of furniture purchased by hospitals, especially new hospitals. A comprehensive project can achieve a purchase scale of 10 million yuan.

Multi-material mixing range is expanded

Hospital furniture is not only a wide variety, but also features a combination of multiple materials. Beds, wooden desks and other wooden materials such as solid wood, sheet metal, medical desks and chairs; steel materials such as western medicine cabinets and medicine racks; stone artificial stone pots used in the outpatient area; engineering plastics such as atomizing chairs, Row chairs, etc. According to the materials used in different furniture categories, the waiting room furniture is mainly for all kinds of row chairs, mainly steel materials and engineering plastics; the pharmacy is divided into two kinds of Chinese and Western pharmacies, the Chinese medicine pharmacy is mainly wood, and the Chinese herbal medicines are placed. . Western medicine pharmacy furniture mainly has medicine racks and medicine cabinets, mainly steel. The ward furniture is mainly hospital beds, bedside tables, etc. Most of them are mainly made of steel and wood.

At present, the hospital furniture we count is not only used in hospitals, but also in various places such as preventive diseases, health promotion and rehabilitation training, and nursing aid organizations that maintain a healthy life. Such as disease control centers, health centers, laboratories, scientific research institutes. In fact, it is only used in the field of medical and health care that belongs to hospital furniture.

Policies drive strong demand for procurement

The growth in demand for hospital furniture purchases has benefited from multiple aspects.

First of all, in recent years, the reform of the medical system promoted by the Chinese government has objectively promoted the renovation of old hospitals and the construction of new hospitals. On the other hand, in the process of urbanization, various types of infrastructure construction are also accelerating.

"In the future, hospitals may purchase more and more furniture. After the urbanization construction is accelerated, the hospital is one of the important urban infrastructures. It is imperative to strengthen the research on the furniture needed for hospitals." He Fazhen said .

Li Jian told the "Government Procurement Information" reporter that the demand for hospital furniture has benefited from the promotion of policies. After the reform of the medical system, many hospitals nationwide have begun to expand or renew. The hospitals need more and more furniture.

Yue Zongbin, the person in charge of furniture procurement at Peking University Stomatological Hospital, told the reporter of the Government Procurement Information Daily that with the improvement of people's cultural level, people's demand for oral health will become larger and larger. At present, large-scale construction of dental hospitals across the country is underway. The amount of hospital furniture required after the completion of the construction is very large. In the stomatological hospital, the procurement needs of the sideboards will be very high, and almost every doctor will be deployed.

According to reports, Peking University Stomatological Hospital will build a new dental hospital on 50 acres of land in Beijing's North Fifth Ring Road.

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