Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-07-20
Buyer: Region Skåne
Country: SE
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 33195000 | 33196000 | 33196100 | 33197000 | 48180000
Estimated value: 4200000 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: This PCP is carried out by Region Skåne, lead procurer acting on behalf of of the buyers group listed in I.1 It will be implemented under Swedish law on public procurement.
CareMatrix — Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to buy R&D (research and development) services to develop integrated care tools and services for people with multimorbidity.
This PIN provides early information about the expected starting date and purchase volume for a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) in the sector of Integrated Health Care, and about the open market consultation that is organised in preparation of this procurement.
The procurement aims to trigger testing and development of new solutions to anticipate and address the needs of people suffering from multimorbititiy, by ensuring timely service access, co-managed care journeys and transitions between specialties and sectors. It will address the white spaces between silo-based single-diagnosis treatment tracks, and the white spaces occurring in caregiver transitions.
Some of the main technical challenges to be addressed are: 20 % reduction in time spent for visits to care facilities and increased patient safety by 50 % fewer inter-organisational patient data-related incidents.
All interested suppliers are invited to take part in the OMC (regardless of their geographic location, the size or governance structure of their organization).
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.
— original development and validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services. (expected to award contracts up to EUR 1 050 000 per awarded supplier*).
After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively to 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 is expected to take place in Basque country(ES), Oslo-Viken (NO) and Skåne (SE). This testing may also serve as a first customer test reference for the contractors. The procurement is expected to start in 2022-07 and end in 2024-10.
The selected operators 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. The market potential is estimated at EUR 75 000 000 000 (across Europe).
This PCP is a joint procurement by different procurers (Buyers group) across Europe that are facing a common challenge and are thus looking for similar solutions.
This procurement receives funding under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 964370-Carematrix PCP. The EU is however not participating as a contracting authority in this procurement.
The open market consultation will provide you with an overview on the procurement objectives, the PCP process and the main clauses of the contract. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions. It will be held in English, Swedish, Spanish, and Norwegian.
The open market consultation will be organised in the form of a Request for Information, questionnaire, webinars, that will be held:


Award value: 4200000