Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2023-03-24
Buyer: Sykehuset Innlandet HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 38000000
Estimated value: 10000000 NOK

Technical requirements: Automatic casting machine with accompanying instrument-dependent consumables for delivery to Innlandet Hospital Trust
Innlandet Hospital Trust intends to enter into an agreement with Sakura Finetek Norway AS (Sakura) for the purchase of an automatic casting machine of the model Tissue-Tek AutoTEC® a120. The instrument must fulfil certain criteria as mentioned in section IV point 1.1. The contracting authority is only aware of the instrument from Sakura being able to fulfil the need. Innlandet Hospital intends to enter into an MTU purchase agreement, a framework agreement for the purchase of instrument-dependent consumables and a post-warranty service and maintenance agreement. The duration of the framework agreement and the service and maintenance agreement will be for as long as the equipment is in use.
Innlandet Hospital Trust intends to enter into an MTU purchase agreement with Sakura Finetek Norway AS (Sakura) for the delivery of an automatic casting machine of the model Tissue-Tek AutoTEC® a120. A framework agreement will also be signed for the purchase of instrument-dependent consumables and a post-warranty service and maintenance agreement.
The contract has not been signed, and tenderers who have objections to the signing of the contract are requested to submit their appeals to Innlandet Hospital Trust, c/o Procurement Manager Thomas Aaseth (thomas.aaseth@sykehuset-innlandet.no) by Friday 31.3.2023 at 12:00.
In the opinion of the contracting authority, the fully automated Tissue-Tek AutoTEC® a120 casting machine supplied by Sakura Finetek is the only system on the market that meets the needs of the contracting authority. Mandatory minimum requirements for this type of equipment are that the instrument can
retrieve samples directly from the feeding process and place them in the casting instrument to carry out the complete casting process. Furthermore, the machine must fulfill the requirement that the equipment/products are assessed for conformity and CE marked as medical devices for use in hospitals in accordance with the directives and/or regulations that are applicable to the products and their intended use. The machine must provide standardised casting in regard to the orientation of the tissue pieces along the x and y planes. The machine must be able to cast at least 100 cassettes per hour. The machine must produce clean cassettes, with minimal residues of paraffin wax on the outer edges of the cassettes. The machine must also be user-friendly and have good ergonomics in relation to
daily use and maintenance. The machine must be able to identify which cassettes to cast using a barcode reader, and the instrument/barcode reader must be able to read 2D/Datamatrix type barcodes.
The contracting authority is not aware of any systems other than Tissue-Tek AutoTEC® a120 that meet these requirements. Terms for a procurement without a contest, cf. the Public Procurement Regulations (Norwegian abbreviation: FOA) § 13-4 letter b are therefore considered justified.
The contract has not been signed, and tenderers who have objections to the signing of the contract are requested to submit their appeals to Innlandet Hospital Trust, c/o Procurement Manager Thomas Aaseth (thomas.aaseth@sykehuset-innlandet.no) by Friday 31.3.2023 at 12:00.


Winner: Sakura Finetek Norway AS
Award value: 10000000