Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2022-06-15
Buyer: Jämtlands Läns Landsting
Country: SE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 32441100 | 32441300 | 33000000 | 33100000 | 33190000
Estimated value: 646811 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: This PCP is carried out by Jämtlands Läns Landsting, lead procurer acting in the name and on behalf of the buyers group listed in I.1. The applicable national procurement law is Swedish law.
Pre-commercial Procurement of innovative ICT-enabled integrated care solutions to advance multidisciplinary health and care for patients with chronic heart failure
Via contract notice 2021/S 246-650597 a consortium of procurers led by Region Jämtland Härjedalen (RJH) launched an open tender procedure to purchase R&D services from a number of R&D providers in parallel. The aim was to compare competing alternative solution approaches to address the INCAREHEART challenge. The procurement was announced to be in the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) with a phased approach, i.e. a framework agreement covering 3 R&D phases: solution design, prototyping, original development and validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services. This notice announces the tenderers which offered the best value-for-money solutions and which were offered a specific contract for phase 1 of the PCP.
Testing is expected to take place at the procurers' sites – in Regions Jämtland Härjedalen and Västerbotten (Sweden), Thessaloniki (Greece), Naples (Italy), Amadora (Portugal) and Istanbul (Turkey)
Procurement will take the form of pre-commercial procurement (PCP), where R&D service contracts will be awarded in parallel to different R&D providers in a phased approach. This will allow alternative, competing solutions to be compared. Each selected operator will receive a framework contract covering three R&D phases. The three phases are: Solution design, prototype development, original development and validation and testing of a limited volume of the first products or services. After each phase, interim evaluations are conducted to select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best value for money will be offered a specific contract for the next phase. The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the solutions developed.
This procurement is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 965134 - INCAREHEART (https://incareheart.eu/). The EU has awarded a grant for this procurement but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.
INCAREHEART carried out a series of open market consultation (OMC) events in the period 10 June - 27 September 2021  to inform the specifications of the tender. All materials and recordings are available at https://incareheart.eu/#OMC. Participation in the OMC events is not a prerequisite for submitting a tender for this call.
The PCP procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them (because it concerns the procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs).


Winner: Hytton Technologies AB
Award value: 646811
Number of bids: 15