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Services - 233129-2021
10/05/2021    S90

Spain-Saragossa: Research and experimental development services

2021/S 090-233129

Prior information notice

This notice is for prior information only

Services

Legal Basis:
Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Postal address: C/S. Juan Bosco, 13
Town: Zaragoza
NUTS code: ES243 Zaragoza
Postal code: 50009
Country: Spain
Contact person: José Antonio Navarro
E-mail: contratacion.iacs@aragon.es
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.iacs.es/
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.rosia-pcp.eu
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Servicio Aragonés de Salud
Postal address: Plaza de la Convivencia, 2 50071 Zaragoza
Town: Zaragoza
NUTS code: ES243 Zaragoza
Postal code: 50071
Country: Spain
Contact person: Modesto Sierra
E-mail: innovation.hbrb@salud.aragon.es
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.aragon.es/-/servicio-aragones-de-salud-14
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.rosia-pcp.eu
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: National Rehabilitation Hospital
Postal address: Rochestown Avenue
Town: Dún Laoghaire
NUTS code: IE06 Eastern and Midland
Postal code: A96 E2H2
Country: Ireland
Contact person: Sarah Kearney
E-mail: sarah.kearney@nrh.ie
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.nrh.ie/
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.rosia-pcp.eu
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE
Postal address: Praceta Prof. Mota Pinto
Town: Coimbra
NUTS code: PT16E Região de Coimbra
Postal code: 3004-561
Country: Portugal
Contact person: Sandra de Sousa
E-mail: sandramsousa@chuc.min-saude.pt
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.chuc.min-saude.pt/
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.rosia-pcp.eu
I.2)Information about joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
In the case of joint procurement involving different countries, state applicable national procurement law:

This PCP is carried out by Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, lead procurer acting in the name and on behalf of the buyers group in I.1). The applicable national procurement law is Spanish.

I.3)Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local agency/office
I.5)Main activity
Other activity: Health R&D

Section II: Object

II.1)Scope of the procurement
II.1.1)Title:

Pre-commercial Public Procurement of Comprehensive Services to Patients in Need of Tele-rehabilitation in Isolated Areas, enhanced by Edge Technology, New Care Pathways and Community Support (ROSIA)

II.1.2)Main CPV code
73100000 Research and experimental development services
II.1.3)Type of contract
Services
II.1.4)Short description:

This PIN announces an open market consultation and provides information about a planned pre-commercial procurement (PCP) carried out by the ROSIA PCP project, addressing the rising need of comprehensive services, enhanced by edge technology, to patients in need of tele-rehabilitation in depopulated and distant areas. ROSIA PCP is looking to procure the development of an all in one service supported in an open platform which will integrate ICT enabled services including telerehabilitation and monitoring devices for self-care, implementation of new care pathways fostering community support, and resources for enabling patient activation.

More information about the upcoming open market consultation is provided in section II.2.14).

II.1.5)Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: 3 081 000.00 EUR
II.1.6)Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)Description
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
32441100 Telemetry surveillance system
32441300 Telematics system
33000000 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
33100000 Medical equipments
33190000 Miscellaneous medical devices and products
33195000 Patient-monitoring system
33196000 Medical aids
33197000 Medical computer equipment
33692000 Medical solutions
48000000 Software package and information systems
48180000 Medical software package
48814000 Medical information systems
48814200 Patient-administration system
48814400 Clinical information system
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72212180 Medical software development services
72212190 Educational software development services
72212211 Platform interconnectivity software development services
72212930 Training and entertainment software development services
72212931 Training software development services
75122000 Administrative healthcare services
80320000 Medical education services
80420000 E-learning services
80561000 Health training services
85140000 Miscellaneous health services
85141210 Home medical treatment services
85323000 Community health services
48211000 Platform interconnectivity software package
II.2.3)Place of performance
NUTS code: ES24 Aragón
NUTS code: IE06 Eastern and Midland
NUTS code: PT16E Região de Coimbra
Main site or place of performance:

The contract will be executed at the institution of each member.

II.2.4)Description of the procurement:

The procurement will take the form of a joint pre-commercial procurement (PCP). The objective is to conduct a competitive multiple‐sourcing procedure for procuring research and development services to face a joint technologically demanding mid to long‐term challenge. The competitive process will be executed in three phases where different suppliers will compete to develop their solution in a narrowed down R&D framework of service contracts. The 3 phases are: solution design, prototype development, original development and validation and testing of a limited volume of first products or services. All the solutions in Phase 3 will be tested in the three buyers’ countries (Ireland, Portugal and Spain) to ensure that a comparison can be made of performance, both across sites and across solutions. Each procurer will identify a sample population to implement the proof of concept of the final awarded solutions.

Each selected operator will be awarded a framework agreement that covers three R&D phases. After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to 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. Contracts will include provisions on risk benefit sharing under market conditions, and a clear separation with the subsequent (possible) Public Procurements of Innovative solutions (PPI) focusing on deployment of commercial volumes of end‐products.

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.

This PIN invites all interested operators (regardless of their geographic location, the size or governance structure) to take part in an open market consultation (OMC).

The OMC will consist of:

— online events: one per procurers’ country (Ireland, Portugal and Spain) and another international one will be organized during the OMC. All meetings will be announced on the website (https://ROSIA-pcp.eu/),

— a questionnaire made available at Rosia´s web (https://ROSIA-pcp.eu/). The confidentiality terms applied to the information provided by the respondents during the OMC will be detailed at the questionnaire,

— individual meetings with respondents to the questionnaire. The meetings and phone calls schedule will be set up by the procurers according to interest and availability.

Interested operators can participate in the PCP call for tender even if they did not participate in the OMC. Participation in the OMC will not be a requirement to submit a proposal to the tender, does not lead to any rights or privileges for the participants, and is not part of any pre-qualification or selection process.

This procurement receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement No 101017606 — ROSIA PCP (https://ROSIA-pcp.eu/). The EU has given a grant for this procurement, but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.

II.2.14)Additional information

Estimated total value: EUR 3 900 000 incl. VAT, if applicable.

The procurement is expected to be published in March 2022, to start in September 2022 and to end in May 2025.

OMC will be held from June to August 2021.

All information provided during the OMC will be published, at least, in English.

II.3)Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
31/03/2022

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Description
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3)Additional information:

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). This PIN is published to announce an open market consultation on a future procurement procedure. The PIN is not a commitment to procure.

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
05/05/2021