Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2023-02-28
Buyer: Aarhus Universitet
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33000000
Estimated value: 342310 EUR

Technical requirements: Lääketieteelliset laitteet, farmaseuttiset valmisteet ja henkilökohtaiseen hygieniaan liittyvät tuotteet
3 instruments for real-time detection of bioaerosols detecting both pollen and spores in an outside atmosphere
Aarhus University wishes to buy 3 instruments for real-time detection of bioaerosols for use in a Novo Nordisk project focusing on allergenic pollen and spores, in particular Alternaria.
Aarhus University wishes to buy 3 instruments for real-time detection of bioaerosols for use in a Novo Nordisk project focusing on allergenic pollen and spores, in particular Alternaria. The instruments should operate and integrate into a Nordic network of similar instruments currently under development (e.g. Sweden, Denmark, Finland). It is a requirement that results from the specific instrument is documented in peer reviewed journals. Consequently it is also required that one or several peer reviewed articles documents capability of detecting and identifying several pollen types (e.g. birch, oak and grass) as well as the spore type, explored in the Novo Nordisk Project (hence Alternaria). The instruments are placed in outdoor environments so documentation must refer to outdoor environments. Additionally, it is also a requirement that the instrument has been participating in intercomparisions and provided good results in these intercomparisons. As the Novo Nordisk project builds an operational real-time network in Denmark for bioaerosols over the period 2022-2029, then it is a requirement that an instrument is considered mature for continuous real-time monitoring.
Bioaerosols are important for climate change, human health and agriculture. The Nordic countries are building an international network of real-time detectors for bioaerosols. Instruments have been under development for a number of years and new results documents that “certain automatic systems (instrument plus identification algorithm) are already well suited for continuous realtime pollen monitoring” (Maya-Manzano et al, 2023). Recently it was shown, that it is possible to extend real-time detection to the spore Alternaria (Erb et al, 2023). Several instruments have shown capability to detect spores in a laboratory environment, sometimes delivered as part of their marketing material. However, taking instruments from clean laboratory setting to the outside atmosphere is not straightforward.
Currently, Swisens is the only commercial supplier on the market that can deliver a documented (peer reviewed) standalone solution can detect both pollen and spores in the outside atmosphere and where the quality has been documented through peer review. It is also the only provider that provides access to the computer source code that analyses the bioaerosols, which is a vital part of the documentation
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Winner: Swisens AG
Award value: 342310