Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2020-07-24
Buyer: Icelandic Health Insurance (IHI)
Country: IS
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121200: Specialist medical services | 85121210: Cardiology services | 85121231 | 85121240: Oncology services
Estimated value: 35000000000 ISK
Submission deadline: 2020-08-31

Technical requirements: Icelandic Health Insurance (IHI) requests for negotiations with legal entities performing the services of specialist physicians. SÍ intends to award contracts with legal entities performing services of specialist physicians outside the national hospitals in the following specialised fields of medicine as defined by CPV codes
Iceland's Health Insurance (IHI) is seeking negotiations with legal entities that provide specialist physician services with the aim of awarding contracts for services outside national hospitals in the specialty sectors that are paid by state health insurance. IHI will negotiate with interested participants who will be divided into groups based on the specialty sector or sectors that the participant is interested to service.
If then umber of interested participants is more than IHI's demand, IHI reserves the right to reduce the number of participants in stages according to selection criteria that the participants will be sent before the negotiations start. The selection criteria will be based on professional assessment of the participants' skills and experience.
Interested participants for each speciality sector will get further description of the procurement procedure before the negotiations start. The award of contracts will be based on IHI's assessment of the special characteristics of the service, the necessary quality of the service, efficiency and the special needs of different categories of users of the service and the empowerment of the users. The contracting authority is also free to select a service provider on the basis of the tender which offers the best ratio between price and quality taking into account the quality and the sustainability criteria for social services according to article 94 of the Public Procurement Act No 120/2016 as will be described in the tender documents. When deciding the award of contracts IHI will also take into consideration the need for the following services in all health districts of Iceland:
The contract period will be 4 years. IHI reserves the right to prolong the duration of each contract for at least 4 more years if contract performance is satisfactory as regards terms of the contract and provisions of laws and regulations.
The contracts will only be awarded to legal entities, economic operators or institutions where the owners perform at least 80 % of the services. The employees' ownership ratio should be at least 80 %.
A condition for participation is that healthcare providers have specialist licenses under Art. Act No 34/2012 on health care professionals and the legal entity requirements for operating licenses in I
Iceland's Health Insurance (IHI) is seeking negotiations with legal entities that provide specialist physician services with the aim of awarding contracts for services outside national hospitals in the specialty sectors that are paid by state health insurance. IHI will negotiate with interested participants who will be divided into groups based on the specialty sector or sectors that the participant is interested to service.
If then umber of interested participants is more than IHI's demand, IHI reserves the right to reduce the number of participants in stages according to selection criteria that the participants will be sent before the negotiations start. The selection criteria will be based on professional assessment of the participants' skills and experience.
Interested participants for each speciality sector will get further description of the procurement procedure before the negotiations start. The award of contracts will be based on IHI's assessment of the special characteristics of the service, the necessary quality of the service, efficiency and the special needs of different categories of users of the service and the empowerment of the users. The contracting authority is also free to select a service provider on the basis of the tender which offers the best ratio between price and quality taking into account the quality and the sustainability criteria for social services according to article 94 of the Public Procurement Act No 120/2016 as will be described in the tender documents. When deciding the award of contracts IHI will also take into consideration the need for the following services in all health districts of Iceland:
The contract period will be 4 years. IHI reserves the right to prolong the duration of each contract for at least 4 more years if contract performance is satisfactory as regards terms of the contract and provisions of laws and regulations.
The contracts will only be awarded to legal entities, economic operators or institutions where the owners perform at least 80 % of the services. The employees' ownership ratio should be at least 80 %.
A condition for participation is that healthcare providers have specialist licenses under Art. Act No 34/2012 on health care professionals and the legal entity requirements for operating licenses in I
Iceland's Health Insurance (IHI) is seeking negotiations with legal entities that provide specialist physician services with the aim of awarding contracts for services outside national hospitals in the specialty sectors that are paid by state health insurance. IHI will negotiate with interested participants who will be divided into groups based on the specialty sector or sectors that the participant is interested to service.
If then umber of interested participants is more than IHI's demand, IHI reserves the right to reduce the number of participants in stages according to selection criteria that the participants will be sent before the negotiations start. The selection criteria will be based on professional assessment of the participants' skills and experience.


Award value: 35000000000