Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-05-13
Buyer: Sykehuspartner HF
Country: NO
Region: NORGE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 9200000 NOK

Technical requirements: Temporary extension of a contract for the infrastructure platform for piloting service innovation (Medicloud).
The notice is for additional orders on a contract for the infrastructure platform for piloting service innovation. The addition involves an expansion of deliveries that have already been received. The contract will be valid for 1 year with an option for a 1 year extension.
Sykehuspartner procured a cloud based platform service last summer for piloting ‘Medicloud’ as a potential new service from Sykehuspartner to the hospitals in Helse Sør-Øst. The aim of the procurement was to test and gain experience, which shall form the basis for a future management model, business model and deployment. Sykehuspartner has not come far enough in the piloting work to be able to make a decision on the establishment of Medicloud as a permanent service from Sykehuspartner to the hospitals. There is a need to continue this temporary piloting work with the addition of some new types of services in order to establish a proper basis for any permanent establishment of an innovation arena such as Medicloud managed by Sykehuspartner. The new services are help and support to the hospitals in the piloting work (‘garage teams’) and a service for the establishment of APIs with the existing (‘legacy’) IT infrastructure in the hospitals. In practice such a system will help us to complete the pilots and give us the necessary experience and decision basis around an innovation arena such as Medicloud. A continuation of the Medicloud project with testing cloud systems in Medicloud as a possible permanent form of delivery from Sykehuspartner to the hospitals must be time limited within a period of 12-24 months before the final decision. Going to the market with a new enquiry with such a time perspective will incur high replacement costs and adaptations to knowledge and technology will be lost. The basis for continuing with Medicloud will, thus, be absent. If the project cannot be continued by the procurement of further licences, approx. 1 years work will have been in vain. It would then not be possible to conclude whether this type of service will be of value for the hospitals. The work with testing and possibly the later procurement of new technology will then be significantly delayed and more expensive. In practice the project would be delayed by 1 and a half years. It is adduced that the terms in the FOA § 14-4 f. are fulfilled, as the procurement of a new system will be ‘technically incompatible with the existing equipment’ and, in addition, ‘create disproportionate major technical difficulties for the operation and maintenance’. The project can be seen as an extended market survey in which we are acquiring knowledge on new technology before a possible major procurement. Any advantage that the tenderer would gain as a result of the delivery would be offset in a later procurement through, amongst other things, deadlines, detailed tender documentation and possible information meetings. When Sykehuspartner has had the answers it needs, a decision will be taken as to whether we shall procure a separate cloud system for innovation for all of Helse Sør-Øst.
Temporary extension of the contract for the infrastructure platform for piloting service innovation (Medicloud)