Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2022-02-15
Buyer: SYKEHUSINNKJØP HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33120000: Physiological monitoring systems
Estimated value: 3300000 NOK

Technical requirements: St. Olavs Hospital Trust (Norwegian abbreviation STO), the Clinical Pharmacology Department (Norwegian abbreviation: AKF) currently has two LC-QTOF-MS systems from Agilent. They are mainly used for screening known and unknown connections in urine, serum, and blood samples, but also in non-biological samples.
AKF develops all its chromatographical/mass spectroscopic analysis methods itself. A lot of work is carried out in the development, testing, and validation of the various analysis methods. This takes place over several months to uncover any weaknesses in the methods and ensure the analytical quality.
In order to maintain and further develop the analysis activity within the field, AKF would like to procure a more recent model, LC-QTOF-MS from Agilent. For the new instrument to be in operation within a short time, it is important that this model has similar specifications, and the same configuration and software as the current LC-QTOF-MS. An instrument from different supplier would lead to new methods having to be developed, and running them at the same time as the existing methods will significantly delay the implementation of a new system.
In order to maintain and further develop the analysis activity within the field, AKF would like to procure a more recent model, LC-QTOF-MS from Agilent. For the new instrument to be in operation within a short time, it is important that this model has similar specifications, and the same configuration and software as the current LC-QTOF-MS.
Screening with LC-QTOF-MS uses databases/library with several hundred connections. These databases are connected to the software for the instrument. A considerable amount of work has been carried out on databases at AKF for our instrument from Agilent.
There would be a comprehensive process to transfer the database to another instrument with different software. Ensure that the connections are detected with equal security on both instruments. So that this can be fulfilled, it must be possible to have the same type of data acquisition in both instruments. It must be possible to set up an identical mass spectrometric method on the new instrument in order to be able to use the instruments at the same time. Validation of our self-developed analysis methods on a new instrument. Competence development within instrument troubleshooting. This is competence that is necessary for both method development and routine analyses. It takes a long time to build up the required knowledge and experience to carry out efficient troubleshooting. The interpretation of data from QTOF is demanding and based on experience, and the procurement of a new instrument would mean that this experience must be acquired before both systems could be used in parallel in routine operations. We would like to continue with the operation of individual modules on the existing instrument.
An estimate of the use of resources if we had to procure an instrument from another supplier and carry out the above-mentioned measures, shows that it would equate between a half and one  full-time position.
This procurement is critical in order maintain a secure and stable operational situation. AKF will then still have a uniform platform for the LC-QTOF-MS systems.
In order to maintain and further develop the analysis activity within the field, AKF would like to procure a more recent model, LC-QTOF-MS from Agilent. For the new instrument to be in operation within a short time, it is important that this model has similar specifications, and the same configuration and software as the current LC-QTOF-MS.
Screening with LC-QTOF-MS uses databases/library with several hundred connections. These databases are connected to the software for the instrument. A considerable amount of work has been carried out on databases at AKF for our instrument from Agilent.
There would be a comprehensive process to transfer the database to another instrument with different software. Ensure that the connections are detected with equal security on both instruments. So that this can be fulfilled, it must be possible to have the same type of data acquisition in both instruments. It must be possible to set up an identical mass spectrometric method on the new instrument in order to be able to use the instruments at the same time. Validation of our self-developed analysis methods on a new instrument. Competence development within instrument troubleshooting. This is competence that is necessary for both method development and routine analyses. It takes a long time to build up the required knowledge and experience to carry out efficient troubleshooting. The interpretation of data from QTOF is demanding and based on experience, and the procurement of a new instrument would mean that this experience must be acquired before both systems could be used in parallel in routine operations. We would like to continue with the operation of individual modules on the existing instrument.
An estimate of the use of resources if we had to procure an instrument from another supplier and carry out the above-mentioned measures, shows that it would equate between a half and one  full-time position.
This procurement is critical in order maintain a secure and stable operational situation. AKF will then still have a uniform platform for the LC-QTOF-MS systems.


Winner: Matriks AS
Award value: 3300000