Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-02-15
Buyer: Universitätsklinikum Aachen AöR
Country: DE
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 30200000 | 33100000 | 33195000 | 33197000 | 48000000
Estimated value: 2800000 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: THALEA II — Public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) to buy a complete system, offering necessary hardware and software for a highly-interoperable and -integrated Tele Intensive Care Cockpit
All interested operators are invited to take part in an open market consultation (regardless of their geographic location, the size or governance structure of their organisation).
The open market consultation will be organised in the form of an online questionnaire that will be held:
You can participate in the PPI call for tender even if you did not participate in the open market consultation.
This PPI procurement was preceded by a pre-commercial procurement (PCP). For more information about this PCP, see www.thalea-pcp.eu
Offers will be accepted in English. All communication (before, during and after the procurement) will be carried out in English.
All information provided during the open market consultation and other background information will be published online in English on the project website (www.thalea-pcp.eu).
This PIN provides early information about the expected starting date and purchase volume for a public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI). The procurement aims to purchase 4 units of innovative solutions corresponding to a purchase volume of approximately 2 800 000 EUR that address the following challenge: The procurers of THALEA II are planning to purchase a complete system, offering necessary hardware and software for a highly-interoperable and -integrated Tele Intensive Care Unit (ICU)-Cockpit system that assists intensive care specialists in academic telemedical command centres. First line purpose of such an application will be real-time or near-to-real-time data extraction, aggregation, and presentation enabling an intensive care specialist in a telemedical ICU to oversee large patient populations indifferent ICUs — continued in section VI.3.
Different lots/specifications are useful because tasks and duties as well as organizational concepts in intensive care differ around Europe.
Furthermore, potentially increased number of Systems avoids vendor lock in situation and monopolism. Thus, a PPI that would end with three different types/lots of systems in Europe increases the visibility and market impact of PCP/PPI combinations as well as of additional implementation of the Tele-ICU concept.
As part of the tender evaluation procedure, it will be evaluated before contract award if the tenderers can meet the requirements and have obtained proof of certification of their solution from the appropriate designated bodies.
Contract implementation will consist of a deployment phase (which is expected to be completed 1 month after contract award) and an operational validation phase of 9 months — during which the solutions will be evaluated in real-life operational conditions. Evaluation will be done by the procurers.
The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate in the PPI and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of their innovative solutions i.e. beyond this procurement.
This procurement receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement No 689041 – THALEA II (see www.thalea-pcp.eu).
The EU has given a grant for this procurement, but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.


Award value: 2800000