As we noted above, drug procurement is often a common site for corruption, further exacerbating inequities in access to medicines amongst the population if, for example, drugs procured have prices that are out of reach.
Then the question that remains unanswered is how the other states are able to procure at prices lower than Tamil Nadu.
41 It is likely that an HPV vaccine will be procured at a price below its list price for a UK-wide tender, but the tender price is not known.
Procurement prices are the prices that governments and other central purchasers pay to procure medicines, and are generally obtained through a tendering process.
For the comparison of retail versus procurement prices, our IMS sample is limited to those HIV/AIDS, TB, or malaria drugs that are also procured through GPRM for at least one country.
"What's often mistaken about our marketplace," Sean Pate, a spokesman for Stubhub, said in a statement, "is that we procure and price tickets when, to the contrary, we simply provide a secure and managed online marketplace for those who wish to sell tickets they possess".
The grain they produced was procured at a price that was often below the cost of production.
Price procured a cult following among critics and scholars since the 1960s, including Lucy Lippard, who declared in 1966, "It is a fact rather than a value judgment that no one else, on the east or west coast, is working like Kenneth Price".
We found variation in procurement price for the same medicine procured by different agencies.
Once procured at internationally competitive prices, commodities are packaged in Yangon-based warehouses by PSI staff.
