Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

Purchase human organs for transplantations. UI Health depends on close collaboration with organ procurement agencies to provide effective care for our patients. The procurement and timely delivery of donated organs are essential to our transplantation services.

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)) We purchase human organs for transplant from this type of company, an OPO. If we cannot in good faith purchase organs, we will not be able to continue our transplant program at UI Health. The hospital would lose millions of dollars in net profit from our department.