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All cities have a purchasing office and/or a procurement officer. They handle all city contracts that are sen

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

t out to bid. Usually, to become a small business vendor of the city you must satisfy either some or all of t

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

e requirements listed below:

Minority Or Woman Owned Business

Small Business (Under $500,000/Year Gross)

Wo

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

rker's Compensation Insurance (If Employees Work On Contract)

Liability Insurance Of $500,000-1,000,000 Aggre

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ate With The City As Additional

Insured (For Autos And Completed Operations) (finish products liability)

Cit

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

y Business License

Local Business In Town

Hire Local Employees

Not all contracts are sent out to bid howeve

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

. Some of the gravy contracts are ad-ons, additions or "Oh, by the way," contracts. The latter of which are

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

by far the best. These contracts come up often. Here's how its works. Now for this example lets use a cleani

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

g service:

The city manager comes up with an idea. He's seen you out at the corporation yard cleaning cars w

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ith your high-pressure machine. He needs you to clean the bird droppings off a flagpole in front of city hall

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

frontage of the library and awnings around the civic center. You work out a price at $100/hour once a week.

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

Since this is out of their budget, they settle on every other week. You adjust the price to $120/hour. Then

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

as you do the job, you figure out a way to do it in one-half the time ($240/hour).

You then donate $30-50 in

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

coupons to his kid's school, rotary club and whatever church he and the current mayor attend. First you have

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

o get a city contract. Bid low. It's worth it. This is how it really works, no matter what the rest of the

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

world says. Government is no different or anymore ethical than rat living at the dump. If you are wondering wh

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

all the same companies get all the city’s business, it is because they understand how it all works. It would

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

be nice to have a more honest government at all levels, but since you can provide great services to the city a

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

d you deserve the business, you may as well get out there and go get it. It is not good or bad, it just is; it

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

is much different than they teach you in school. Maybe some day it will be; one can only hope. Think about it

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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