Feature|Articles|August 25, 2026

Why Integrated GMP Operating Models Are Reshaping Outsourced Manufacturing

Author(s)Adam Bartley

Cleanroom hosting with integrated GMP operating models is giving emerging biopharma companies a new middle path between building and full outsourcing.

For decades, biopharma companies evaluating outsourced manufacturing faced a binary choice. They could lease facility space and build the surrounding operations themselves, or they could outsource the entire effort to a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO). Both options worked, but neither was particularly well-suited to the realities of how emerging biopharma companies actually develop and manufacture today.

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