Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-12-22
Buyer: Sykehusinnkjøp HF
Country: NO
Region: NORGE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48100000 | 51600000 | 51610000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 100000000 NOK

Technical requirements: The regional health trusts intend to enter into agreement for the delivery of a system for speech recognition for use in the specialist health services over the entire country. The procurement concerns a speech recognition system specialised for use in the Norwegian Specialist Health Service, where the language is Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), and where the system converts the spoken text while the user dictates. The agreement will cover all disciplines in the specialist health service with the exception of radiology, see further information below. The agreement comprises delivery of the solution with associated services, hereunder training, support, maintenance and new versions. The procurement contains the necessary software with front-end speech recognition for different categories of health personnel and disciplines, integration modules and integration work, special modules i.a. for speech recognition to large scale operation reporting and statistics, training of the voice recognition profile etc., agreement on support, maintenance and upgrading of the system, as well as courses, training and other services connected with the above. The agreement comprises all modules/integrations/words for speech recognition, current and future, that the Tenderer has made available in the Norwegian market for use in the health sector, with the exception of use in radiology systems.
Max Manus is the only supplier in the Norwegian market when it comes to speech recognition in Norwegian (bokmål and nynorsk) for the specialist health service with the exception of the radiology discipline. The Max Manus group has sole rights to their system. As a result there are no others who can supply the solution. Terms in the public procurement regulations § 14-4 letter c) are therefore met. Different modules of the solution are currently in use by a number of the country's health authorities. The new agreement will give all of the health authorities the right to use the system for all disciplines except radiology. The agreement will be in force from signing of the contract until it is terminated by one of the parties. The contract's total duration and eventual termination will be assessed based on what is at any given time justifiable from a business perspective and in accordance with the any given legal procurement rules and legal practice for time unlimited contracts.
Max Manus is the only supplier in the Norwegian market when it comes to speech recognition in Norwegian for the specialist health service with the exception of the radiology discipline. The Max Manus group has sole rights to their system. As a result there are no others who can supply the solution. Terms in the public procurement regulations § 14-4 letter c) are therefore met.
Different modules of the solution are currently in use by a number of the country's health authorities. The new agreement will give all of the health authorities the right to use the system for all disciplines except radiology.
The agreement will be in force from signing of the contract until it is terminated by one of the parties. The contract's total duration and eventual termination will be assessed based on what is at any given time justifiable from a business perspective and in accordance with the any given legal procurement rules and legal practice for time unlimited contracts.


Number of bids: 1