Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2023-06-02
Buyer: SYKEHUSINNKJØP HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48490000 | 72000000 | 72268000: Software supply services | 72300000

Technical requirements: The Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust is conducting a market survey with the aim of gaining an overview of the supplier and product market. For more information about the need and the market survey, see the attached market survey with associated questions.
The Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust [Sykehusinnkjøp HF] is one of the country's largest procurement organisations with approximately 316 employees. The Norwegian Health Trust provides a specialised and professional procurement service for the specialist health service in Norway (mainly hospitals) and focuses on ensuring that public procurements are carried out in an efficient, correct and socially responsible manner. Innovation is encouraged and arrangements must be made for the use of new innovative methods and solutions in the specialist healthcare service.
The health trust makes over 1,000 procurements per year with strong involvement of clinical staff from the health trusts or hospitals and others throughout Norway. We organise ourselves as a procurement team and use digital tools for this. In addition we manage approx. 7,000 contracts wherein the procurements and contracts are divided into 14 procurement categories. The contests we organise and the contracts we manage can be national, regional or local depending on the chosen approach. The combined annual value of the procurement portfolio is approx. NOK 37.5 million. Our employees are spread across 27 office locations and, as mentioned in the introduction, their primary task is to support the health regions and health trusts in the execution of public procurements and the management of their procurement contracts. The Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust therefore needs robust and future-oriented technological procurement solutions that support us in the execution of these tasks.
The Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust is now in the concept phase of modernising our platform. In the concept phase, we aim to define the future architecture for our own procurement tools or ecosystem. In this context, we would like to hold a dialogue with the supplier market about the design of such an ecosystem, how your procurement solutions can fit into such a setting and what you can offer in terms of standard functionality and integrations. We also have a strong focus on providing all our users with a good user experience (UX) and we have a general goal of increasing digitalisation and automation.
The contracting authority is therefore conducting a market survey with the aim of gaining an overview of the supplier and product market. For more information about the need and the market survey, see the attached market survey with associated questions.
Following this RFI process, the Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust plans to decide on the design of the ecosystem and determine the phases and content of the project. Based on these decisions, we will hold one or more contests to procure the new procurement solutions. The contests are tentatively scheduled to be held in Q1-Q2 2024.