Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-12-15
Buyer: Sykehusinnkjøp HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48180000 | 48814000: Medical information systems | 48814500 | 72000000
Estimated value: 20000000 NOK

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Helse Sør-Øst RHF (HSØ) intends to procure copyrighted somatic tests and forms from the company CheckWare AS. This is in addition to the current contract on continual service procurements of an electronic system for copyrighted psychometric tests and forms. The contract is for somatics and research, including habilitation, with the possibility for call-offs for all health trusts (HF) within HSØ.
The purpose of the contract is to ensure compliance with the at any time applicable regulations for copyrighted forms, licensed forms and data security, as well as to get digitised copyrighted psychometric and somatic tests and forms that will be used to collect and systemise data about the patient treatment process. The contract is for somatic tests and forms that are used in reviewing and treatment of patients. Furthermore, the contract also covers systems for the integration of self-defined forms and any new relevant copyrighted tests and forms within the somatic field.
The contract will be managed by Sykehuspartner HF (SP) on behalf of HSØ. As such, Sykehuspartner HF is the contracting party.
The plan is that electronic systems for copyrighted tests and forms will be introduced in phases in the respective health trusts during the lifetime of the contract.
The duration of the contract is 2 years with automatic extension for one year at a time. The contract is meant to be a temporary system until the initiative for 'Digital Home Follow-Up, Process and Automation Platform and API Platform' has a general system in place for distance follow-up.
Based on our market knowledge, CheckWare AS is the only supplier at the current time that can deliver a comprehensive system that safeguards the requirements for managing and making copyrighted psychometric tests and forms available (including licenced tests and forms), information security, other regional technical requirements and interoperability.
One-to-one meetings were held with 11 relevant suppliers for the contest 'Electronic tool for the acquisition of patient reported data for Vestre Viken Helseforetak'. One-to-one meetings were held with 13 relevant suppliers for the contest 'Innovation partnership for virtual home hospital and distance follow-up of patients at Vestfold Hospital'. Thus we got a good overview of the market. The requirements in the procurement covered by this voluntary ex-ante transparency notice are specifically aimed at copyrights tests and CheckWare was the only one of the interviewed suppliers in these two procurements that can meet the requirements.
After the market survey that was carried out by Sykehusinnkjøp, divisjon sør-øst, both Helse Nord RHF and Helse Midt-Norge RHF published a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice for equivalent procurements to that which HSØ now intends to make, in the autumn/winter of 2019 and August 2020 respectively. No objections were received in these voluntary ex-ante transparency notices.
The contracting authority can make a procurement without a contest if the procurement concerns services that only one specific supplier can provide because:
The market dialogue has shown that there is only one tenderer that can deliver a system or have the rights to deliver a system for access to immaterial rights, and the terms in both points 2 and 3 are therefore met.


Winner: CheckWare AS
Award value: 20000000