Agfa scores two supply contracts from GPO Premier

Group purchasing organization (GPO) Premier Inc. has awarded Agfa Healthcare two new three-year, multi-source contracts for film and medical imagers.

 Agfa estimates the combined value of the pacts at approximately $200 million a year. The contracts include conventional wet film, mammography film, cine film, dry film, and both wet and dry imagers. Agfa's entire line of diagnostic film, media and imagers is included in the contracts.

 The agreements go into effect on Nov. 1.

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