Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-07-31
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: 20031200.32 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Spanish / British Tender procedure (applicable: law: Spanish). Especific contracts derived from the Framework agreement (aplicable law: Spanish and British)
Public procurement of innovative solutions to procure innovative services, enhanced by digital technologies, for a comprehensive and integrated management of patients using pacemakers (RITMOCORE).
On 6.1.2018, an early information was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ/ S S4 5024-2018-EN) to provide all potential interested economic operators with relevant information of the public procurement of innovative solutions mentioned in the header, to purchase innovative services and ICT solutions to address the following challenge: the transformation of current pacemaker patients care services to a patient centered model.
This PIN provides updated information about the expected starting date and purchase volume of RITMOCORE PPI and about the Open Market Consultation (OMC) that is organized in preparation of this procurement (more information provided in section II.2.4).
This procedure is a public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI). 'Public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI)' means procurement where contracting authorities act as a launch customer of innovative goods or services which are not yet available on a large-scale commercial basis, and may include conformance testing. PPI does not include R&D services. (Reference: “Annex E. Specific requirements for innovation procurement (PCP/PPI) supported by Horizon 2020 grants”, within HORIZON 2020 – Work Programme 2016-2017).
The procurement will be divided into lots for each procurer in order to manage the local refinements of the characteristics of the innovative ICT services and solutions to be procured for a comprehensive and integrated care management of patients using a pacemaker. The members of RITMOCORE’s buyers group agree to jointly launch a call for tender to acquire such services and solutions that outperform existing services and solutions that are available on the market.
More precisely, RITMOCORE aims to transform the pacemaker patients care services from a pacemaker implanting hospital centred care service model to a patient centred model and is looking for ICT services and solutions enabling the:
b) Personalized pacemaker therapy (e.g.: provision of adequate devices (pace makers and loop recorders) depending on the patient health conditions (device portfolio availability, stock management, training)
a) Remote monitoring (e.g.: detection of device malfunctions, change in health conditions (as asymptomatic atrial fibrillation) and alert system triggering)
b) Patient activation (e.g.: education messages and coaching platform for patients and informal carers)
The service provision model will be based in 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. The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate in the PPI and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of their innovative solutions i.e. beyond this procurement
The OMC makes part market analysis the contracting authorities are performing. Its main objectives are:
— to inform about the tender process, in order to achieve the widest participation of interested parties,
— to allow interested parties to provide comments and suggestions considered useful for the contracting authority in preparation of the tender.
All interested operators are invited to take part in OMC (regardless of their geographic location, the size or governance structure)


Award value: 20031200.32