Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2023-01-09
Buyer: SYKEHUSINNKJØP HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33194210
Estimated value: 3097356 NOK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Blood heaters for massive transfusion for delivery to Stavanger University Hospital, c/o Stavanger Hospital Trust
The current blood heaters for massive transfusion (Level 1 H-1025 from Smiths Medical) in emergency departments and anaesthesia in Stavanger Hospital Trust (HST) have lost their CE certification for infusion sets due to a danger of transferring aluminium to patients. As it is very uncertain as to whether the supplier can guarantee that the problem can be solved, HST must procure new apparatuses.
Market surveys carried out by the contracting authority and the Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust show that in reality there is only one replacement product in the market that can handle the assignment satisfactory: Belmont Rapid Infuser RI-2 delivered by Vingmed AS. We have concluded that we must make a direct procurement of the system.
The procurement contract will comprise 2 blood and fluid heaters. The procurement contract also includes an option for 1 extra blood and fluid heater, necessary training, and service after the guarantee period has expired. A framework agreement will also be entered into for equipment-dependent consumables.
The public procurement regulations, section 13-4 first paragraph letter b) no. 2 state that the contracting authority can make a procurement without a contest if the procurement concerns services that only a specific service provider can deliver as competition is impossible due to technical reasons.
Due to the above, a contest cannot be held for the delivery of the equipment that must be procured, and the terms for making a procurement without a contest, in accordance with the public procurement regulation § 13-4 first paragraph, letter b, no. 2, are therefore fulfilled.
The procurement contract also includes an option for an extra blood and fluid heater, training, and service after the guarantee period has expired.
The current blood heaters for massive transfusion (Level 1 H-1025 from Smiths Medical) in emergency departments and anaesthesia in Stavanger Hospital Trust (HST) have lost their CE certification for infusion sets due to a danger of transferring aluminium to patients. As it is very uncertain as to whether the supplier can guarantee that the problem can be solved, HST must procure new apparatuses.
Market surveys carried out by the contracting authority and the Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust show that in reality there is only one replacement product in the market that can handle the assignment satisfactory: Belmont Rapid Infuser RI-2 delivered by Vingmed AS. We have concluded that we must make a direct procurement of the system.
The procurement contract will comprise 2 blood and fluid heaters. The procurement contract also includes an option for 1 extra blood and fluid heater, necessary training, and service after the guarantee period has expired. A framework agreement will also be entered into for equipment-dependent consumables.
The public procurement regulations, section 13-4 first paragraph letter b) no. 2 state that the contracting authority can make a procurement without a contest if the procurement concerns services that only a specific service provider can deliver as competition is impossible due to technical reasons.
Due to the above, a contest cannot be held for the delivery of the equipment that must be procured, and the terms for making a procurement without a contest, in accordance with the public procurement regulation § 13-4 first paragraph, letter b, no. 2, are therefore fulfilled.
Blood heaters for massive transfusion for delivery to Stavanger University Hospital, c/o Stavanger  Hospital Trust.


Winner: Vingmed AS
Award value: 3097356