Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-02-19
Buyer: Sykehusinnkjøp HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 48180000 | 48810000: Information systems | 48814400 | 48814500

Technical requirements: Medical Distance Monitoring or Epilepsy Patients at the nevrologisk avdeling, Vestre Viken HF/HSØ [Neurological Department, Vestre Viken Health Trust/South Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority]
Vestre Viken Helseforetak (VV HF), c/o Drammen Clinic, will procure a technical solution for digital monitoring of patients outside of the hospital. In this connection, the Contracting Authority wants to invite potential tenderers to register their interest, in order for the Contracting Authority to gain an overview of the market and what functionality is available to solve the assignment. Notice of the tender contest will be published at a later date.
This is a pilot project for epilepsy patients at Vestre Viken, but if the solution is found suitable, the contracting authority envisions expansion to other patients groups in both Somatics and Psychiatrics in the South Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.
Sykehusinnkjøp HF will assist Vestre Viken Hospital Trust with the implementation of the procurement.
The number of chronically ill patients is increasing and the health authority wants to test new ways of working that involve monitoring of patients but does not require them to be physically present at the hospital. The contracting authority also wants tender offers that as far as possible are governed by the patient's needs, where the service offered can be adapted to increase accessibility and flexibility of the monitoring. The requested solution will broaden the basis for medical distance monitoring, and where the need now primarily is functionality for communication with and reporting from patients outside the hospital.
In order to realise this measure, the health Authority is depending on a solution that facilitates digital communication between patients and clinics and that can improve the work processes with clinical decision support. The solution must be able to establish, send out, receive and interpret electronic tasks/forms and manage sensitive personal data with secure log on and storage. It must also be able to handle regulated monitoring initiated by the system or health personnel, and the patient must be able to initiate contact when the need arises. The system must be able to generate reports that show status and development/trends, both per patient and for groups of patients.
The health Authority wants to support the ambition that the resident should have one entry point to the health service, and it is therefore necessary that the solution can be integrated with the have one entrance to the health service, and it is therefore necessary that the solution can be integrated with the resident portal, Helsenorge.no
It must also be able to function as a stand-alone system without integration with the resident portal or other professional systems.
The procurement is part of a minor innovation project where the objective is to test solutions for digital monitoring of patients and gain experience with new ways of working, which in turn will be used to broaden comparable solutions to other parts of the company's somatic activities. The pilot project will be implemented in its entirety in 2019 and the need must therefore be entirely covered by the existing solutions (there is not time for technological development as part of the project).
Depending on how many service providers register their interest, one-to-one meetings are planned to be held with the service providers. The meeting are planned to be held at Drammen Hospital, Thursday 7 and Monday 11.3.2019.
Relevant service providers are asked to register their interest by sending a brief description of their solution,starting with the needs outlined above. The document must be sent via the communication module in Mercell by 27.2.2019, 10:00.
The solution must be presented in the meeting and the service provider must demonstrate how it solves the assignment described above. The Contracting Authority also wants a description of how it is intended to establish the solution in the health Authority's IT infrastructure, including dependencies and compatibility to OS versions, etc., and the possibility of API for integration with professional systems such as EPJ. In summation, the service provider should provide information about how quickly the solution can be delivered, what plans are in place for further development, and provide references from customers who are currently using the presented solution.