Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-06-04
Buyer: Sykehusinnkjøp HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33121000: Ambulatory monitoring system
Estimated value: 171591 NOK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Procurement of 1 Body Composition Monitor for the Dialysis Department at Voss Hospital, Helse Bergen HF:
It is important for the Contracting Authority to maintain continual operations in the department, which treats a compound patient group; the equipment is currently hired from another hospital, which results in disturbances to its operation and patient logistics at dialysis units. It ought to be pointed out that the Contracting Authority already has established software and licences that are dedicated to dialysis treatment, but lacks an apparatus that gives quantitative data for adjusting the parameters for a professional assessment of individual treatment.
A market survey has shown that there is only one supplier that can deliver body composition monitors that can be used on very ill patients with limited mobility (cannot get out of bed). The Contracting Authority would, thus, like to make a direct procurement of 1 apparatus with the intention of having continual operation at the regional hospital.
The contract will be signed without a prior contest notice, as there is only one supplier of such equipment. Despite the fact that the product that comprises the main element of the contract, and which is described in this voluntary ex-ante notice, is covered by the public procurement regulations Part I, attention is drawn to the following provision in the public procurement regulations, Part II §8-18, with justification, cf. §5-2 first section letter a.
Objections to the intention to sign a contract for a Body Composition Monitor with VINGMED AS must be sent to Sykehusinnkjøp, c/o Ina Hvidsten by 4.6.2019.
Notice is hereby given that Sykehusinnkjøp, on behalf of Bergen HF in Helse Vest, intends to enter into a purchase contract with VINGMED AS for the procurement of 1 body composition monitor for supporting dialysis treatment. The equipment will be used in the Dialysis Department, Voss Hospital, Helse Bergen HF.
2) monitoring patients after treatment. The system measures several somatical parameters, and is one of the central tools for adjusting treatment parameters. The equipment can be used on bedridden patients (very limited mobility).
It is important for the contracting authority to maintain continual operations in the department, which treats a compound patient group; the equipment is currently hired from another hospital, which results in disturbances to its operation and patient logistics at dialysis units. It ought to be pointed out that the Contracting Authority already has established software and licences that are dedicated to dialysis treatment, but lacks an apparatus that gives quantitative data for adjusting the parameters for a professional assessment of individual treatment.
A market survey has shown that there is only one supplier that can deliver body composition monitors that can be used on very ill patients with limited mobility (cannot get out of bed). The Contracting Authority would, thus, like to make a direct procurement of 1 apparatus with the intention of having continual operation at the regional hospital.
The contract will be signed without a prior contest notice, as there is only one supplier of such equipment. Despite the fact that the product that comprises the main element of the contract, and which is described in this voluntary ex-ante notice, is covered by the public procurement regulations part I, attention is drawn to the following provision in the public procurement regulations, Part II §8-18, with justification, cf. §5-2 first section letter a.
Objections to the intention to sign a contract for a Body Composition Monitor with VINGMED AS must be sent to Sykehusinnkjøp, c/o Ina Hvidsten by 4.6.2019.


Winner: Vingmed AS
Award value: 171591