Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-01-06
Buyer: Fundación de Gestión Sanitaria del Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Country: ES
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33182000 | 33182210 | 33195000 | 48180000
Estimated value: 20000000 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Public procurement of innovative solutions to buy an innovative service, enhanced by digital technologies, for a comprehensive and integrated management of patients using or in need of a pacemaker
This notice announces an open market consultation and provides information in an early stage about the expected starting date and purchase amount of the public procurement procedure of RITMOCORE.
The members of RITMOCORE’s buyer's group agree to jointly launch a call for tender to acquire an innovative service for a comprehensive and integrated care management of patients using or/and in need of a pacemaker. RITMOCORE aims to shift from a device-provision model to an innovative services provision including:
The model will be based on a risk-sharing approach, which will establish a new cooperation scheme between health institutions and service providers to maximise the value for the patient.
RITMOCORE aims to shift from a device-provision model to an innovative services provision, which shall include the following main items addressing institutions and patients to the purposes below:
1. Implantation of multi-brand pacemaker use and availability of broad product portfolio, in order to provide institutions with:
2. Integration of implanted devices’ monitoring with patient’s vital signs in order to promote patient’s activation to prevent complications and improve lifestyle through an ICT platform.
3. Design and implantation of a patients’ empowerment programme, aiming at developing applications and contents, which will allow patients to self-monitoring and self-controlling their implant.
4. Design and implantation of an application allowing the real-time communication, whose purpose is to guarantee the transmission of patient’s relevant information to all involved professionals in the process of care.
The service provision model will be based on a risk-sharing approach, which will establish a new cooperation scheme between health institutions and the service provider to maximise the value for the patient and, by extension, for the healthcare system. The model will also include an outcome-based payment system.
In order to guarantee an efficient execution of the contract’s object, and considering its main features including the risk sharing and the payment for outcomes, the object of the call for tender will be a comprehensive service. This service will be delivered individually to each buyer group member, who will have a lot allocated.
This joint procurement is launched by the buyer's group composed by procurers from different countries involved in the H2020 EU project “RITMOCORE - Arrhythmias monitoring and comprehensive care”. As of the date of the publication of this PIN, the members of RITMOCORE buyers’ group are:
— FundacióPrivada de GestióSanitària de l'Hospital de la Santa CreuiSant Pau (Spain; NUTS: ES511) – acting as lead procurer;
This procurement receives funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No. 727796. The EU is, however, not participating as a contracting authority in this procurement.
In preparation for this PPI, all interested operators are invited to take part in an Open Market Consultation (OMC), regardless of their geographic location, and the size or governance structure of their organisation.


Award value: 20000000