Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2022-10-07
Buyer: Sykehusapotekene HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 33100000 | 42921320 | 48180000 | 48814500 | 85149000

Technical requirements: The hospital pharmacies have started a project that will procure, adapt, test, and introduce new middleware for patient-specific one-dose at our department in Skien. The current software (called ATC Host) has reached its end-of-life and will no longer be maintained by Baxter. Our expectations for a new application/middleware are that it will
- give increased patient safety, meet information security and personal protection requirements, ensure stable operation and access to relevant competence for the maintenance and development of the system.
- support an improved and more automated work process, as well as contribute to efficiency and quality control of medicine deliveries in the form of one-doses labelled for patients in the hospital.
This is an invitation to a market dialogue in order to clarify what relevant systems exist in the market. Register your interest via the tender management tool or by sending an email to our project manager Edvard Nærum, edvard.naerum@sykehusapotekene.no by 14.10.2022
Sykehusapotekene HF would like to procure a system for labelling one-doses with patient names that is modern, flexible, and future-orientated, based on a modern technological platform. We would like quality improvements, an efficient use of resources, simplification of work processes, as well as efficient operation and management of the system in close cooperation with a supplier. There is also an aim that the new application/middleware can be used in other hospital pharmacies in Helse Sør-Øst (HSØ), and that is can also be used with other packing machines than those from Baxter.
The system must fulfil statutory requirements for personal protection and information security. The functionality in the system must be flexible and contribute to making the hospital pharmacies' work processes more efficient. The system must always be in accordance with the current laws and rules, and it must be easy to configure for adjustments in work processes. It is easy to extract registered data, with good structures for data acquisition, so that further processing and analysis can be undertaken.
We would like the middleware to communicate with the basket system that is in use in HSØ. This is IMDsoft Metavision. The basket system prescribes medicines to patients on an active ingredient level, not a product level. Furthermore the middleware must be able to communicate with different production machines in order to start production of patient-specific one-doses. These are the two most important integrations. We would like access control through single-sign-on, based on the role the person has. We use basic data connected to medicines from the FEST database, but we can also look are reusing master data here from other sources that already use FEST. We envisage stock status updates being visible in the middleware. We envisage obtaining this directly from the stock management systems.
We would like internal functionality in the middleware for converting prescriptions (that are for active ingredients) to one-dose products. There must be tracking of the process before production. Evaluations and approvals must be made by the right person and production must only be commenced by an approved person.
See the attached document that has further details on this invitation to the market dialogue. Questions can be directed to Edvard Nærum, tel +47 950 66 854