Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-10-13
Buyer: Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya (lead Procurer, awarding the contracts on behalf of the buyers group)
Country: ES
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 33000000 | 38000000 | 48180000 | 72000000 | 73100000
Estimated value: 3300000 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Pre–commercial procurement to buy R&D services for the development of early- and continuous-detection systems of microorganisms that may lead to hospital-acquired infections.
This prior information notice announces an open market consultation and provides information at an early stage on the expected starting date and purchase volume for the ANTI-SUPERBUGS PCP pre-commercial procurement.
The ANTI-SUPERBUGS pre-commercial procurement aims to improve the quality of care processes in hospital and the reduction of both the costs and the collateral effects provoked by Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs, otherwise known as Superbugs) and other Health Associated Infections (HAIs) pathogens, through the development and testing of prototypes of devices and ICT services that can:
(2) provide continuous information and remote alerts to health professionals on environmental contamination by MDROs — and other pathogens — on high contact surfaces, applicable to existing healthcare environments.
Main site or place of performance: R&D services to be developed will be integrated with resources in centres operated by buyers group.
This procurement receives funding from the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (H2020-EU.2.1.1.- Industrial Leadership — Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies — Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)) Grant Agreement No. 688878. The EU is however not participating as a contracting authority in this procurement.
The procurement will be carried out jointly by the organisations of the buyers' group, and the Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya (AQuAS) will act as lead procurer and will award the contracts on behalf of the buyers group.
As of the date of the publication of this information notice ANTI-SUPERBUGS PCP buyers' group members are:
The Anti-superbugs PCP buyers' group may be subject to variations as it is currently accessioning new contracting authorities.
The aim of this procurement is to trigger new solutions to be developed and tested to address the described common challenge faced by all buyers' group organizations. ANTI-SUPERBUGS PCP challenges the market to develop solutions that when in contact with resistant microorganisms can detect their presence and give real-time feedback to the user, and at the same time share the information with the healthcare provider ICT systems, linking the infection with the place of the detection.
The procurement will take the form of an open PCP under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers, in parallel, in a three-phase approach.
3 Original development and validation & testing of a limited set of prototype devices or prototype services within the contracting authorities.
After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.
Open Market Consultation: In preparation for this PCP, all interested operators are invited to take part in an open market consultation. The open market consultation will provide an overview on the procurement objectives, the PCP process and the main clauses of the contract. It will be also an opportunity to pose questions to the procuring authorities.
The market consultation involves the proactive analysis of technology offerings and provides pre-information to the market in order to give adequate time for the preparation of fit-for-purpose proposals. The market consultation will provide crucial input to the procurement plan. The market consultation aims to:


Award value: 3300000