Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-07-23
Buyer: Fundación de Gestión Sanitaria del Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Country: ES
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 32441100 | 32441300 | 33000000 | 48000000 | 71317210
Estimated value: 3498969.25 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: The contract involves Joint Procurement. Additional information about the Joint Procurement can be found in Section VI.3) Additional information.
Pre-Commercial Procurement to Buy R&D (Research and Development) Services to Deliver Quick Responses for Individuals with Advanced Heart Failure and Complex Care Needs Through Integrated Care (TIQUE)
This PIN provides early information about the expected starting date and purchase volume for a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) and about the open market consultation (OMC) that is organised in preparation of this procurement. See sections II.2.4) and II.2.14) for details.
The procurement aims to trigger new solutions to be developed and tested to address the following challenge: improve treatment for patients with advanced heart failure and complex care needs through technology enabled integrated care solutions.
This PCP procurement is a joint procurement by different procurers across Europe that are all facing the same common challenge and are thus looking for similar solutions (so-called ‘buyers group’).
The TIQUE Buyers Group of healthcare providers have identified a common need for the transformation of health and care services for patients with advanced heart failure and co-existing chronic conditions, frail or at risk of becoming frail, specifically solutions to implement integrated care approaches to treatment for those patients.
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 possible to compare competing alternative solutions.
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.
Testing is expected to take place in Barcelona, Region Västerbotten and Avellino. This testing may also serve as a first customer test reference for the contractors. The procurement is expected to start in spring 2022 and end in February 2026.
The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions i.e. beyond the procurement.
Over 15 000 000 people live with Heart failure in Europe, it is the leading cause of hospital income in people over 65 years, has a mortality of 75 % at 5 years of 1st admission and over 50 % of Health expenditure is produced in the last 6 months of life. The market potential for integrated care for these patients with complex needs is considerable.
More information about PCP can be found on the EC website https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/innovation-procurement.
Currently, the TIQUE buyers group with the knowledge partners are conducting a co-creation process to define the challenge to be addressed. Initial findings show a number of challenges to be addressed by TIQUE solutions, as:
(a) fragmentation: difficulty to communicate with other hospital services and departments of the healthcare systems such as municipalities, social services, psychological assistance; etc.
(b) interoperability: even within a given regional healthcare setting IT systems cannot always communicate or share information;


Award value: 3498969.25