Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

Medline Industries will provide medical supplies such as catheter trays, urine meters, medical gauze, surgical needles, IV tubing, sutures and other implantable and disposable medical supplies required for the treatment of patients at the University of Illinois Hospital.

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)) Medline 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, which in turn would drive patients else where and a loss in revenue to the hospital.