The Ontario Hospital Association’s (OHA) Capital Procurement Cooperative (CPC) has competitively procured PPI Consulting Limited (PPI) to provide participating hospitals with the opportunity to improve their purchasing power for capital equipment, while reducing duplication of the procurement effort.
Introducing PPI
Since 1989, PPI has been providing procurement services solely to the public and social sectors. As an industry leader in Canada, PPI has participated in many pathfinder and innovative public sector procurement initiatives. PPI has focused on helping its clients meet their business requirements and create an auditable process that withstands public scrutiny by conducting fair, open, transparent and defensible procurements.
PPI’s Consultants have an extensive understanding of the new Broader Public Sector (BPS) Procurement Directives, and its supply chain code of ethics. In addition to procurement, the PPI team provides “fairness expertise” for complex public procurement processes; in fact, they are leaders in the development of fairness advisory protocols and practices.
PPI has extensive procurement knowledge of the operating and stakeholder environment for hospital-based procurements, as well as experience in capital equipment procurement within the health care sector.
Their clients include:
- University Health Network
- Women’s College Hospital
- Cancer Care Ontario
- Infrastructure Ontario
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres
CPC's PPI Procurement Team
Howard Grant – Executive Procurement Oversight
Howard is a founding partner and President of PPI Consulting Limited. He has more than 20 years of experience in procurement and has an in-depth understanding of the policy, operational and administrative issues in public sector procurement at all levels of government, and within independent public sector institutions. This includes the application of fair and ethical business practices, risk identification, analysis of dependencies, business facilitation and dispute resolution, and business performance measures.
Howard has provided fairness and procurement management advice to political leaders and executive managers at federal, provincial and municipal levels of government on multiple pathfinder procurement projects, engaging the private sector in innovative service delivery or infrastructure initiatives.
He has also acted as facilitator, arbitrator, and negotiator where project implementation required consensus-building approaches and the ability to engage multiple stakeholders in business arrangements.
Danielle Sanagan – Lead Procurement Specialist
Danielle is a consultant who brings skills, knowledge and experience in project management, clinical change management, IM/IT operational management and procurement in the Ontario health sector. She has over 5 years experience in clinical systems implementation, project management and management experience and has held both strategic and operational roles in healthcare organizations. Danielle brings extensive knowledge of business outcomes, requirements gathering, facilitation, and vendor management in both the acute care and ambulatory care sectors.
Stephanie Braithwaite – Procurement Support
Stephanie Braithwaite is a Procurement Specialist at PPI Consulting Limited assisting clients throughout the lifecycle of the public sector procurement process, with a focus on procurement initiatives in the health care sector. Trained in the health field with a Masters of Medical Sciences, Ms. Braithwaite has experience in information management/ information technology projects and initiatives. In addition to her procurement experience, Ms. Braithwaite also has three years experience in the areas of Project Management, Change Management, Workflow Redesign, Operational Impact Assessments, and Process Mapping.
Sharon Rubinstein – Procurement Advisor
Sharon has approximately 20 years experience in public, private and not-for-profit organizations, and in particular, experience in supporting health sector initiatives. She has managed a number of projects including strategic procurements aimed at delivering effective outcomes, and has provided guidance and advice on procurement processes that support fairness and transparency through project management and stakeholder management methodologies and tools.
CPC’s Procurement Law Experts
To provide participating hospitals with top-notch legal support, the CPC works with a team of highly experienced experts in public procurement law.
Denis Chamberland
Denis Chamberland is one of Canada's leading public procurement lawyers. He is a partner with Baker & McKenzie in Toronto and has been recognized in the prestigious Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2011 in the Public Procurement category (ranked in Band 1) and in Who’s Who Legal – The International Who’s Who of Public Procurement Lawyers.
Debby Shapero Propp
Debby Shapero Propp is one of Canada's leading lawyers for a number of health sector group purchasing organizations. She has extensive experience in health sector procurement, having worked with hospitals across Ontario on a wide range of commercial and health-related regulatory issues. She is a partner in the law office of Debby Shapero Propp in Toronto.