Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-08-21
Buyer: Trondheim kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 33100000

Technical requirements: Trondheim kommune [Trondheim municipality] invites suppliers of technical medical equipment to participate in a market dialogue.
Registration: send a message via the communications module along with the name of participants and email addresses. The email addresses will be used to send the link to the digital meeting after the registration deadline. Trondheim municipality uses Google Meet.
During the autumn of 2020, a tender competition will be held for entry into a contract for the delivery of technical medical equipment to Trondheim municipality. The largest users of this contract are the municipality's health and welfare centre, medical centre, home care service, accident and emergency unit, respite housing, health stations and other units in health and care.
The purpose of the market dialogue is to gather input from potential suppliers concerning the questions below and or other input to the contract and tender competition. We currently do not have an applicable framework agreement for technical medical equipment.
Trondheim municipality has a goal that the contracts to be signed will be balanced and good for both the contracting authority and supplier. They will also contribute to the employees gaining access to what they need of equipment and work tools to provide the town's residents with good services. See the attached dialogue minutes for the list above The list is under construction.
We would like written input after the dialogue conference. It will also be possible to register for one-to-one meetings afterwards if desires.
Participants from Trondheim municipality will be responsible for the contract from the procurement service and members of the committee for the control of unfair competition.
1) Refer to the list with equipment — can all equipment be supplied by one and the same supplier, or are there specialised suppliers who have only parts of the equipment?
2) Environmental requirements concerning vehicles and transport from the supplier to the orderer — is it possible to reduce the number of kilometres driven?
3) How long is the life expectancy of this type of equipment, and will there be a difference in life expectancy between the different types?
4) Integration with patient record system. At the end of October 2021, Trondheim municipality will begin using Helseplattformen [the Health Platform], and we want as many of the measuring devices we use as possible to integrate with Helseplattformen [the Health Platform]. The integration interfaces are clearly defined, but for what type of equipment can we set requirements for integrability at the time we begin using the Health Platform?
Some of the analgesia pumps we currently have must be sent to Germany once a year in order to receive the required servicing. It takes time and has a not insignificant cost. Are there suppliers that can carry out the servicing themselves, or do you have sub-suppliers who do it? Can it be carried out in Trondheim or Norway?
A number of equipment types also have requirements concerning annual control and calibration. The contracting authority wants input regarding how we should put together requirements for the tenderers, equipment, servicing and maintenance that give us good enough equipment quality at the same time as having long durability and good maintenance.
For example, is it possible to imagine a model where the contracting authority borrows equipment from suppliers and we buy all of the test cassettes from the supplier?
And what are the advantages and disadvantages of a more traditional model where we purchase equipment and own it ourselves?