Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2022-07-04
Buyer: Health Service Executive (HSE)
Country: IE
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33000000 | 33157400 | 33170000: Anaesthesia and resuscitation
Estimated value: 517062 EUR

Technical requirements: Lääketieteelliset laitteet, farmaseuttiset valmisteet ja henkilökohtaiseen hygieniaan liittyvät tuotteet
This is a VEAT notice to indicate that the HSE intends utilize EU public procurement directive Art 32.3(b) negotiated procedure without prior publication in the following case to purchase Ventilators for Mater Hospital. The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public supply contracts: for additional deliveries by the original supplier which are:
intended either as a partial replacement of supplies or installations or as the extension of existing supplies or installations where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance; the duration of such contracts as well as that of recurrent contracts shall not, as a general rule, exceed three years;
This is a VEAT notice to indicate that the HSE intends utilize EU public procurement directive Art 32.3(b) negotiated procedure without prior publication in the following case to purchase Ventilators for Mater Hospital.
intended either as a partial replacement of supplies or installations or as the extension of existing supplies or installations where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance; the duration of such contracts as well as that of recurrent contracts shall not, as a general rule, exceed three years;
The use of this article is for the provision of Servo U ventilators for Mater Hospital. It is intended to award the contract for the provision of this device to Getinge Ireland.
In 2014 Mater Critical Care Unit relocated to its current location in the Hospital’s Whitty building-it comprises of 36beds all of which are equipped with the facility to perform mechanical ventilation.All bedspaces in this facility contain Maquet/Getinge Servo mechanical ventilators –either Servo I/Servo U devices.We retain several other Maquet/Getingedevices as portable ventilators as standard“portable ventilators”are often unable to provide the level of support required for some of our patients.Mater Critical Care Unit has a long history in providing expertise in management of the most advanced forms of respiratory failure&the optimal use of mechanical ventilation in these patients.This expertise was founded on years of experience in managingwide range of critically ill patients including heart&lung transplant patients.Arising from our position as the leading hospital for managing severe respiratory failure,&to compliment growth of complex lung transplant&other procedures,the Mater formalised this expertise by founding the only adult Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation Centre (ECMO) in Irl.This coincided with the 2009-10 H1N1 Pandemic whereby the Mater was the default centre in Irl for advanced hypoxaemic respiratory failure.While ECMO is an important adjunct in management of these patients the core therapeutic intervention is optimum use of advanced settings on mechanical ventilators.In our case we found that working with the Maquet/Getinge devices helped provide the best care for our patients & over time & institutional familiarity with these devices has been engendered in all our Critical Care staff.In the intervening years between the H1N1 pandemic & Covid-19 the Mater Critical Care Unit has maintained its position as the unit catering for the highest number of ventilated patients per annum .This expertise in advanced ventilator management proved central to the Mater as it reprised its role as the default national referral centre for the sickest Covid-19 patients.Throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic Mater has accepted the highest number of referred critically ill patients from other ICUs nationally.For clarity Mater ICU’s role here is not only the ability to provide ECMO but more importantly provide advanced mechanical ventilation expertise to reduce the potential of needing ECMO care given the high-risk nature of that intervention.Functioning as national referral centre for advanced hypoxaemia management, 48 transfers-in to date COVID-19 to critical care, from 19 different centres, accounting for 21% of COVID-19 admissions MMUH critical care to date (26th September 2021.Other transfers in to MMUH critical care from other centres (eg.Trauma, major national specialty referrals not counted in the above.The Mater is currently in the process of building 16 new Critical Care Beds in its Infectious Diseases Build Project.These beds are regarded as of central importance by the HSE to redress the national ICU bed capacity deficit that was highlighted repeatedly during the recent pandemic.A further 14 Critical Care beds are planned to cater for the development of the Major Trauma Service at the Mater in the very near future.All future Critical Care Beds will be developed to cater for a broad range of patient category & severity of illness (including future Pandemics) & thus all will be fitted with modern ventilator devices.The above narrative should describe the nature of the Mater’s Critical Care Service as having taken the national lead in advanced ventilatory management of severe respiratory failure & having taken the position of the main referral centre for all other ICUs throughout the country.To maintain the current service & to expand significantly, as described above, a high level of consistency with regards to future ventilator provision is of paramount importance.To that end its imperative that the specific ventilator equipment deemed necessary by the ICU Clinical Team at the Mater be considered as a high priority byHSE.



Winner: Getinge Ireland Ltd
Award value: 517062