Guides

How to compare vendor quotes for a capital purchase, for the people who do it: supply chain, biomedical and clinical engineering, and value analysis teams. Each guide stands on its own and works with or without QuoteVitals.

• How to build a bid tab for capital equipment quotes
  Line the quotes up item by item, normalize what each vendor bundled, and show what is missing before anyone compares totals.
• Five-year cost of ownership for medical equipment
  Why the lowest purchase price is often not the lowest cost, and how to add service, software and consumables over five years.
• What vendor quotes leave out: a checklist
  Freight, installation, software, warranties, consumables, quantities, expiry and arithmetic: what to check on every capital quote.
• How to compare vendors' MDS2 security forms
  Reading the Manufacturer Disclosure Statement for Medical Device Security side by side, and what to ask the vendor.