Turkish

Pre-commercial Procurement of innovative ICT-enabled monitoring to improve health status and optimise hypertension care

Via contract notice 2020/S 162-395132 a consortium of procurers led by Ministry of Health Turkey (MOH) launched an open tender procedure to purchase R&D services from a number of R&D providers in parallel. The aim was to compare competing alternative solution approaches to address the HSMonitor challenge. The procurement was announced to be in the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) with a phased approach, i.e. a framework agreement covering 3 R&D phases: I) solution design, II) prototype development, and III) original development of limited volume of first test products/services. This notice announces the tenderers which offered the best value-for-money and which were selected to proceed to phase III following a call-off. Two tenderers were offered a specific contract for phase III of the PCP.

Testing in phase III is expected to take place in Istanbul (Turkey); Naples (Italy); Jämtland Härjedalen (Sweden); Zagreb (Croatia); Milan (Italy).

The procurement takes the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts are awarded to R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This makes it possible to compare competing alternative solutions. Each selected operator is awarded a framework agreement that covers three R&D phases. For each phase, a specific contract is concluded with the selected operators. The three phases are: solution design, prototype development, original development and validation and testing of a limited volume of first products or services. After each phase, intermediate evaluations are carried out to select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best value-for-money solutions are offered a specific contract for the next phase. The selected operators retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and are able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions.

This procurement receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement No 856698 - HSMonitor (https://hsmonitor-pcp.eu/). The EU has given a grant for this procurement, but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.

HSMonitor carried out a series of open market consultation (OMC) events in the period 25 March - 15 June 2020 to inform the specifications of the tender. All materials and recordings are available at https://hsmonitor-pcp.eu/. Participation in the OMC events is not a prerequisite for submitting a tender for this call.

HSmartBPM (consortium)

HyperHealth (consortium)

The PCP procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them (because it concerns the procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs).