Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Shaun Flanagan:

Within the tender process, however, when I worked as a hospital pharmacist, we would try to design our tenders in such a way that we had fairly comparable items in order that we had a high weighting on price so that, in turn, we drove value as opposed to allowing people to compete on differences, unless there were substantial differences. I am not aware of a tender in my experience for 25% but I could be wrong. I would have to-----