Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-04-02
Buyer: Bærum kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 30231320 | 32570000 | 32581000 | 33195000 | 33196000

Technical requirements: Procurement ‘Fremtidens velferdsteknologi innenfor velferds- og omsorgssektoren’ (Future Welfare Technology within the Welfare and Care Sector)
Bærum kommune (BK) (Bærum Municipality) hereby invites the market to participate in a dialogue in connection with a coming procurement of comprehensive and future-oriented services with the welfare and care sector.
The purpose of the dialogue meeting is to get input from the market about how the service model and contract strategy should be adapted so that Bærum Municipality can achieve their goals in the area. The intention at this point in time is to enter into a contract where several of the current contract areas are combined to a more comprehensive service portfolio that among other things include welfare technology platform, strategic cooperation, security-creating technology, patient signalling system, response centre and other relevant technology for use by employees, relatives, volunteers, persons living at home and residents at institutions.
Bærum Municipality is facing great challenges with covering the future welfare and care needs of the next 10-20 years. Demographic changes with a sharp increase in the number of elderly people and a limited number of workers in the care sector will present challenges in terms of prioritisation between measures that can be realised within the municipality's financial framework. The proportion of people living longer is expected to increase and to solve these challenges with scarcer resources, good innovative solutions are needed.
Bærum Municipality currently has separate contracts and solutions that cover large parts of the need for safety-creating services, warning (hereunder patient signalling system), GPS etc. for those living at home, institution residents and employees. These contracts offer good solutions to the municipality individually, but we can see a need to arrange the contract portfolio within welfare technology in a more comprehensive manner for the future.
Based on the above, we want to see the possibility of standardising and facilitating a more standardised portfolio of services and associated technology that can support the health services we offer our inhabitants.
Since the contract for the purchase of patient signalling systems for nursing homes expires in February 2022, we are considering the possibility of combing the three current largest contract areas in a large contract. In this context we are considering entering into a contract with a strategic cooperation partner, where platforms and purchasing of comprehensive services are also included. We emphasis that the municipality is only in a mapping stage and that future organisation of the area is only under consideration.
For this dialogue we envisage suppliers/participants who can provide good input to BK's tender documentation preparation of a new contract, where the following criteria are significant:
— the contract will ensure a comprehensive range of services, but it will be possible for suppliers to collaborate, provided that the municipality has a contracting party;
— it is preferable to have dialogue with suppliers who can contribute as strategic advisers in the municipality's service innovation work;
— the supplier must have competence and resources to allocated to the project; early phase, engineering design, implementation, delivery and handover/commissioning.