Use case · Clinical laboratory
Buying for a laboratory: analysers, reagents and continuity
For a laboratory, an analyser's price says almost nothing: reagents, maintenance and steady deliveries make the real cost. Medica helps you ask the right suppliers the right questions.
What makes buying (or selling) hard
- Cost per test depends on reagents, often tied to the analyser (closed system).
- A reagent shortage or a breakdown stops results.
- Analyser placement offers against reagent commitments are hard to compare.
- Several purchase families (haematology, chemistry, immunology, consumables) with different suppliers.
How to use Medica, step by step
Start from your volumes
Tests per month and per parameter, peaks, emergencies: the basis of any comparison.
Find analysers and their distributors
Product pages show brand, reference and suppliers; the directory shows who serves your wilaya.
Ask for a complete offer
Analyser, reagents, controls, consumables, maintenance and training in the same request, with your volumes.
Compare cost per test
Relate each offer to your volumes over the term, maintenance included, and ask questions by message.
What Medica brings you
Specialised suppliers
Your request goes to the distributors of that category, not to everyone.
Comparable offers
The same information asked of each: volumes, term, included services.
Supply follow-up
Find your messages and quotes to renew without starting over.
Free
No fees for the laboratory, no obligation to buy.
Example
Example: renewing the haematology analyser
A laboratory in Sétif runs about 3,000 blood counts a month. It asks for a 5-part differential analyser with reagents for three years, maintenance and training, delivered to Sétif. Haematology distributors serving the wilaya answer; the manager compares cost per test over three years, preventive visit frequency and reagent delivery times.
Checklist
- Monthly test volumes per parameter
- Open or closed system, and cost per test over the term
- Quality controls and calibrators included
- Reagent delivery times and safety stock
- Preventive maintenance, response time, loan analyser
- Connection to the laboratory information system (LIS)
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Buying for a laboratory: analysers, reagents and continuity
For a laboratory, an analyser's price says almost nothing: reagents, maintenance and steady deliveries make the real cost. Medica helps you ask the right suppliers the right questions.