Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-03-04
Buyer: Business Services Organisation, PaLS
Country: UK
Region: ITALIA
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73100000
Estimated value: 3632800 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Pre–commercial procurement (PCP) to buy R&D (research and development) services for ‘MAGIC’ — Mobile Assistance for Groups and Individuals within the Community — Stroke Re-habilitation.
On 14.10.2016 a contract notice was published as part of the EU project MAGIC to purchase R&D services from a number of R&D providers in parallel. The aim was to compare competing alternative solution approaches to address the following challenge: Mobile Assistance for Groups and Individuals within the Community — Stroke Rehabilitation. The procurement was announced to be in the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) with a phased approach, i.e. a framework agreement covering three R&D phases:
After each phase, intermediate evaluations are carried out to progressively select the best competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.
The procurement is carried out jointly by the following organisations: Business Services Organisation (BSO), Public Health Agency (PHA), Health and Social Care Board (HSCB), Azienda Sanitaria Locale TO3 (ASL), Ancona University Hospital (AUH), Università degli Studi ‘Gabriele D'Annunzio’ di Chieti-Pescara (U'dA), see http://magic-pcp.eu. BSO was appointed as lead procurer and will coordinate and lead the joint procurement in the name and on behalf of the other organisations.
BSO has signed contracts with 8 R&D providers that were awarded a framework agreement (and specific contract for phase 1). The abstracts of the winning tenders are available on http://magic-pcp.eu. The PCP is expected to start 1.2.2017 and end 31.12.2019.
The EU has given a grant for this procurement but is not participating as a contracting authority in it.
The procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them. This is because it concerns the procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs. Publication of this notice in the EU Official Journal is not to be understood as a waiver of this exemption. It is made on a voluntary basis and the procurement will not follow the procedures under the EU public procurement directives, but rather the procedure described in the tender documentation.
The open procedure was chosen in Section IV.1.1 ‘Procedure’ for formal reasons only. This is because it is not possible to publish a contract award notice without selecting one of the listed procedures.
The procurement is exempted from the EU public procurement directives (including the EU procurement remedies Directive 2007/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council  and 92/13/EEC  of 25 February 1992 coordinating the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the application of Community rules on the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors
 
— see above) and the national laws that implement them. Publication of this notice in the Official Journal is not to be understood as a waiver of this exemption by the contracting authority.


Winner: Camlin Technologies Limited
Award value: 3632800
Number of bids: 48