Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-01-31
Buyer: Istituto per Servizi di Ricovero e Assistenza agli Anziani (I.S.R.A.A.)
Country: IT
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 32441100 | 32441300 | 33190000 | 48000000 | 48180000
Estimated value: 3350000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-04-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Pre–commercial procurement to buy R&D services in the form of tools for modelling and dynamic assessment of integrated health and care pathways enhancing response capabilities
The procurement is open on equal terms to all types of operators that are established in EU Member States and Horizon Europe associated countries and that fulfil the requirements set out in section 3 of the Call for Tenders.
The procurement aims to procure R&D services in the form of an integrated tool that supports the modelling and dynamic assessment of integrated health and care pathways enhancing response capacity of health systems. The tool should effectively support service planning in times of crisis by enabling:
2. an ex-ante impact assessment of alternative service pathways according to relevant, definable parameters
This PCP is a joint procurement by different procurers across Europe that are all facing the same common challenge and are thus looking for similar solutions (‘Buyers Group’).
Testing is expected to take place in the following procurers’ sites: Treviso (Italy), Olsztyński (Poland), Barcelona (Spain), Amadora (Portugal), West Wales (UK).
This PCP procurement is a joint procurement by different procurers across Europe that are all facing the same common challenge and are thus looking for a similar solution (so-called ‘Buyers Group’).
The common challenge to be solved by R&D providers by designing, developing, and testing an integrated tool that supports the modelling and dynamic assessment of integrated health and care pathways enhancing response capacity of health systems. The tool should effectively support service planning in times of crisis by enabling: 1. the dynamic adaptation of service delivery processes to shocks and structural changes; 2. an ex-ante impact assessment of alternative service pathways according to relevant, definable parameters; 3. task planning and skills matching in times of crises.
The procurement will take the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative solutions from different suppliers.
Each selected R&D provider will be awarded a framework agreement that covers the following R&D phases and a specific contract per phase: 1) Solution design, 2) Prototype development, 3) Original development and validation and testing of a limited volume of first products or services.
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.
Testing in Phase 3 is expected to take place in Treviso (Italy), Olsztyński (Poland), Barcelona (Spain), Amadora (Portugal), West Wales (UK). This testing may also serve as a first customer test reference for the contractors. Phase 3 is expected to start in August 2025 and end in January 2026.
The selected R&D providers will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions, i.e. beyond the procurement.
This procurement is funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 101095516 — DYNAMO PCP (https://dynamo-pcp.eu). The EU has awarded a grant for this procurement but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.
This procurement is exempted from the WTO 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 is not to be understood as a waiver of this exemption.


Award value: 3350000