Nuno Costa
Member of the Board of Directors of Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, Vice President, European Health Public Procurement Alliance
Nuno Costa has more than 20 years of experience in public procurement in the health area, with special emphasis on digital public procurement.
Winner of the Pan-European award in the digital area for public procurement with a project dedicated to the digital area of strategic and management information for public procurement in healthcare
The development of new technologies has contributed in recent years to the creation of a more competitive environment in public procurement. In this sense, a public procurement system in now based on information systems that takes the global stage in which public administration relates to the market and are accountable to the citizen.
The electronic procurement is an instrument that allows public actors to be accounted while contributing to a significant increase in transparency and reducing the level of corruption in procurement increasing the degree of trust in the system by market operators.
Formal Education and Career History
- European Health Public Procurement Alliance – Vice President
- Member of the Board of Directors of Shared Services of the Ministry of Health since March 2023
- Portugal Healthcare Central Procurement Body Director since 2020 at SPMS
- 2018-2020 – CFO at ESPAP
- 2010-2018 – CFO & CPO at General Secretariat of the Ministry of Health
- 2009-2010 – Team Lider at General Secretariat of the Ministry of Health
- 2007-2009 – Senior Officer for Procurement and finance ate General Secretariat of the Ministry of Health
- 1999-2007 – Procurement Officer at Hospital Curry Vabral
- Since 2019 - Visiting Professor at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon - Logistics and value chain management in healthcare
- Professional trainer in several academies, in subjects such as finance, control, management and purchases
Formal Education
- Master in Public Administration
Thesis: “Aggregate Public Procurement in the Health Sector: Proposal for a methodology for measuring savings” - Degree in business administration
- Public Procurement Excellence Programme
- Postgraduate in Healthcare Management Program
- Postgraduate in Public procurement law and practice