How the public procurement system is performing and how the procurement models have been impacted by the health crisis considering modern approaches like Value-Based Procurement (VBP), Innovative Procurement, and Health Technology Assessment (HTA)  to strengthen the resilience of European HCS.

Evidence (i.e. data) from administrative procedures during COVID crises and bottlenecks faced by procuring entities in response to the COVID-19 crisis, framing discussions around how procurement systems faced challenges during the crisis, and how future procedures can be better designed to handle emergencies more efficiently.

Explore the mechanisms to guarantee the availability and to ensure accessibility of healthcare services and products remaining available and accessible during emergencies, including how resources are estimated and managed at different levels of crisis including various health threats like flu, meningitis, or AMR outbreaks.

Analyse how environmental, governance, and social factors are considered in procurement processes and decision-making to get the lowest environmental impact possible ensuring that even during health emergencies, decisions are environmentally responsible and socially conscious while maintaining the flexibility needed to meet urgent demands.

Explore how innovation processes and products can help to afford the emergency needs using innovative, flexible approaches to buying services and new products by the integration of technology and value-based procurement (VBP) to create more adaptive, efficient, and responsive procurement systems during crises.