Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2022-02-16
Buyer: Region Västerbotten
Country: SE
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 32441100 | 32441300 | 33000000 | 48000000 | 71317210
Estimated value: 3720000 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: The applicable national procurement law is Swedish law  Additional information about the Joint Procurement can be found in Section VI.3) Additional information.
Pre-Commercial Procurement of R&D (Research and Development) Services to develop and ICT enabled comprehensive treatment of chronic patients in rural areas (CRANE)
This PIN provides early information about the expected starting date and purchase volume for a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) and about the open market consultation that is organised in preparation of this procurement. See sections II.2.4) and II.2.14) for details.
This procurement aims to trigger the development of new solutions to address the following challenge: facilitate effective, efficient, and user-friendly data driven services to enable self-care of chronic conditions for European rural population.
The main technical challenges to be addressed are: striking the right balance between privacy and data protection, and the use of data for data driven services, getting most that IoMT, AI, sensors and other technologies could bring to self-care. GDPR is the cornerstone in CRANE using trust enabling and privacy-preserving technologies.
CRANE will provide services to patients, clinicians, and carers, such as monitoring, follow-up, motivation, education, training, communication.
All interested operators are invited to take part in this OMC (regardless of their geographic location, their size or governance structure). Information about testing location is included under II.2.4
The procurement will take the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to several R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative solutions.
The 3 phases are: solution design, prototyping, and original development, validation and testing of a limited set 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 is expected to take place in Sweden, within the municipalities Storuman and Vilhelmina in Västerbotten county. In Spain, within the municipalities of Jarandilla de la Vera and Villanueva de la Vera in Cáceres. In Norway, municipalities in Agder region are Lindesnes, Arendal, Grimstad and Kristiansand. The procurement is expected to start in July 2022 and end in March 2026.
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. 70% to 80% of all healthcare costs in the EU - an estimated €700 billion - are currently spent on chronic diseases. All interested operators are invited to take part in an open market consultation (regardless of their geographic location, the size or governance structure of their organisation).
The open market consultation will provide interested parties with an overview on the procurement objectives, the PCP process, and the main clauses of the contract. Interested parties will be invited to ask questions.
The open market consultation will formally open on the 20th of April 2022, and close on the 19th of June 2022.
•	Online events: one per procurers’ country (Sweden, Spain and Norway) and another international one. All meetings will be announced on the website (https://crane-pcp.eu/). Preliminary dates are: April 27, Västerbotten (English). May 4, Kristiansand (English). May 11, Extremadura (Spanish and English). INTERNATIONAL event: May 18, in English.


Award value: 3720000