The Catalan Health and Social Care Consortium (Consorci CSC) is a regional public institution founded in 1983. The CSC represents and defends the interests of more than one hundred associate members and 43,000 professionals by providing protection and support to carry out their work in social and health care services. The purchasing power of hospitals and CSC members in Catalonia connect together through the CSC central purchase body (CPB). All CSC associates are public or private non-profit bodies.

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• Legal status: Public non-profit organisation
• Number of members: 108 (28 city councils and 80 local public institutions managing 45 hospitals and more than 55 other health and social care entities)
• Perimeter of action: Regional - Catalonia 
• Procurement volume of 2020: 665 M€ total volume of procurement (509 M€ total volume of procurement as a central purchasing: 46,15% medicines, 50% medical devices and 3,8% others)
• Number of staff: 70, from which 10 in the central purchasing body