Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-06-24
Buyer: Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca Dipartimento per la Formazione Superiore e per la Ricerca Direzione generale per il coordinamento, la promozione e la valorizzazione della ricerca — Ufficio IV
Country: IT
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 73100000
Estimated value:  EUR

Technical requirements: Intelligent systems for the elderly patient monitoring. This Prior Information Notice announces an open marketconsultation and provides information at an early stage on the expected starting date and purchase volume for apre-commercial procurement (PCP).
The scope of this tender is to procure a research and development service aimed at developing a homogeneous computer tool to share specific datasets between hospitals in order to:
1) Make available therapeutic information during outpatient check-ups and / or during subsequent hospitalizations, supporting adherence to prescriptions and pharmacological reconciliation;
2) Evaluate personal and environmental risk factors for each patient, supporting the implementation of targeted prevention and at the same time reducing the risk of falling;
3) Identify and monitor the social-care needs, the prevention of fragility, and health education of elderly people, sharing information on functional status, multimarbidity, physical and mental deficits and psycho-social conditions.
— Interoperability with the IT infrastructure of the companies involved (Master Data, Analysis Laboratory, Radiology, Order Entry, Pharmacy, CUP, Emergency Response, etc.) and with regional data flow platforms;
The results of R&D are not reserved for the exclusive use of the Contracting Authority (Ministry of Education,University and Research and the above listed administrations); the rights on R&D results will be the
subjectof prior negotiation between the contracting authority, the beneficiary administrations, the suppliers and other public authorities.
According to Article 158, paragraph 2, of the Code of Public Contracts (Legislative Decree n. 50 of 18.4.2016), pre-commercial tenders are excluded from the scope of application of the Code, with the exception
The procurement will take the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it
After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract
for the next phase. The pre-commercial procurement procedure is typically divided into the following three phases:
Phase 3, ‘Original development and validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services’.
The R&D activity is conducted up to the production of a limited quantity of products / services, with the exclusionof large-scale production.
The last phase is awarded to at least two suppliers. The phases will be ruled by a Framework Agreement between the contracting authority and each of the suppliers awarded in Phase 1; for each phase, the