Compliance first
Every supplier passes MHRA, UKCA, ISO 13485, and documentation checks before appearing on the platform. Weighted risk scores give your procurement team clear LOW, MEDIUM, or HIGH signals — not guesswork.
Our story
Procurement built on trust and compliance
ProKeyo exists to give NHS trusts a governed, transparent path to manufacturer-direct medical device procurement — cutting UK distribution intermediaries without sacrificing a single regulatory requirement.
Our mission
Remove the middleman, not the safeguards
NHS trusts are among the most compliance-conscious buyers in the world — and rightly so. Our mission is to make manufacturer-direct procurement possible within that governance framework, not around it. Every supplier on ProKeyo is pre-vetted against MHRA, UKCA, and ISO 13485 criteria before a single NHS buyer ever sees them.
Typical distributor markups on Sialkot-made surgical instruments range from 25 to 40 percent. ProKeyo's platform collapses that premium while retaining full audit trails, six-year order retention, and role-based approval workflows that satisfy NHS procurement policy.
Our vision
A fully transparent global supply chain for the NHS
We believe every NHS trust, regardless of size, should have access to the same manufacturer relationships that large distributors have spent decades building. ProKeyo democratises that access — scoring suppliers continuously, surfacing savings data in real time, and giving procurement leads the evidence they need to justify direct-source decisions to their boards.
Long-term, ProKeyo will expand beyond Sialkot to cover other globally recognised medical manufacturing centres — always with the same compliance-first, NHS-built standards that define the platform today.
What we stand for
Our values
Radical transparency
Distributor benchmarks and unit prices are always shown side-by-side. Savings are calculated server-side and displayed in full — no hidden markups, no rounding surprises.
Built for NHS governance
Multi-tenant by trust, EU-hosted data, six-year soft-delete audit trails, and separation-of-duties controls mean ProKeyo fits inside your existing IG and procurement governance frameworks.
Long-term partnerships
We vet manufacturers in Sialkot for the long term — not just to close a deal. Suppliers are continuously monitored; any SUSPENDED status hides them immediately from NHS buyers.
Leadership
Meet the team behind ProKeyo
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Malik Asad Mehmood
A Sialkot native with deep roots in South Asian medical manufacturing, Malik spent over a decade observing the gap between what NHS trusts paid for surgical instruments and what those same instruments cost at the factory gate. ProKeyo is his answer to that gap — a platform designed to make direct procurement safe, compliant, and accessible to every NHS organisation, from large acute trusts to community health providers.
Malik brings hands-on knowledge of Sialkot's manufacturing ecosystem — including its MHRA registration processes, ISO 13485 certification pathways, and export documentation standards — directly into how ProKeyo vets and scores every supplier on the platform.
Sialkot, Pakistan → United Kingdom
Our journey
How ProKeyo came to be
- Year:
2023
The problem identified
Malik Asad Mehmood, a Sialkot native and supply-chain professional, observed NHS trusts paying 25–40% above manufacturer price for surgical instruments that Sialkot factories export globally — except directly to the UK public sector.
- Year:
2024
ProKeyo founded
ProKeyo was incorporated with a clear mandate: build a platform that makes manufacturer-direct procurement safe, compliant, and auditable for NHS trusts — without asking trusts to change their governance frameworks.
- Year:
2025
Platform in development
The compliance scoring engine, multi-tenant order management, and supplier vetting pipeline were built. Early NHS trust pilot conversations began, validating that 25–35% savings are achievable at scale on surgical instruments, orthopaedics, and diagnostics.
- Year:
2026
Public launch
ProKeyo opens trust registration, with a pre-vetted directory of Sialkot manufacturers covering surgical instruments, orthopaedic implants, and diagnostic equipment — all scored, documented, and ready to procure from.
- Data residency
- UK (Liverpool)
- UK GDPR compliant · Supabase eu-west-2
- Supplier vetting
- 5-point compliance score
- MHRA · UKCA · ISO 13485 · Docs · Audit
- Typical savings
- 25–35%
- vs UK distributor pricing
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