Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

Abbott will provide disposable medical supplies and implants such as stents, guide wires, catheters, and other disposable or implantable medical supplies. A stent is a small, metal mesh tube that acts as a scaffold to provide support inside the coronary artery. A balloon catheter, placed over a guide wire, is used to insert the stent into the narrowed artery. Once in place, the balloon is inflated and the stent expands to the size of the artery and holds it open. The stent restores the flow of blood or other fluids, depending on where it's placed. Stents are made of either metal or plastic. Stent grafts are larger stents used for larger arteries.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes of the Procurement Code because the procurement expenditure is for medical supplies or medical services necessary for the delivery of care and treatment at medical, dental, or veterinary teaching facilities utilized by SIU or U of I (30 ILCS 500 / 1-13(b-5)) Abbott Laboratories supplies are used in direct patient care. Without access to the basic medical supplies the Hospital would not be able to offer any kind of patient care that in turn would drive patients else where and result in a loss of revenue to the Hospital.