Organ Blood Flow Monitoring Equipment and Associated Consumables, Maintenance and Support at St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH)

St. Vincent's University Hospital

Instructions: Tenderers must make their submission in a single .ZIP file, so as to avoid corruption of individual filenames of the files uploaded. SVUH welcomes requests for clarification/additional information during the relevant deadline. Summary of scope: SVUH carries out up to 66 Liver Transplants a year and up to 8 Pancreas Transplants a year, with clear planning to increase these volumes. We also operate on hundreds of complex cancer cases a year that require post-operative High Dependency Unit (HDU) level care. SVUH requires a clinically recommended piece of equipment to be used during surgery to check a patient’s blood flow measurements through the major vessels that have been operated on prior to closing up surgically, ensuring improved patient outcomes and increased safety levels. SVUH is seeking a solution for surgeons to measure transit flow time in the hepatic arteries and portal veins intraoperatively especially in Liver Transplants and other Hepatobiliary surgery. Required at a minimum: user-friendly interface with all updates, integrated printer, reusable consumables for the duration of the resulting contract, post-warranty aftersales customer support and comprehensive maintenance. Specifically, in summary, the Goods (primary) and Services (secondary) comprise of: Provision of a complete solution for Organ Blood Flow Monitoring; which will include with itemised costing, all auxiliary supplies and services that may be required i.e., equipment, delivery, installation and commissioning, training as needed, manuals and instructions, reusable consumables, (including third party equipment or consumables when original equipment or consumables do not meet the acceptable performance standards), warranty, ongoing preventative and reactive maintenance after the initial warranty period, customer support, wash solutions, filters, controls, peripherals, printers, cables, interfacing, all available firmware and software updates, necessary firmware and software upgrades, battery or batteries, spare parts parts (non-exhaustive list, with the maximum possible lifespan of any equipment in mind). Any contract that may result from this Competition (the “Goods Contract”) will be issued for a term of 24 months (“the Term”). The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to twelve (12) months with a maximum of eight (8) such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-06-13. The procurement was published on 2025-05-09.

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Procurement history
Date Document
2025-05-09 Contract notice
Contract notice (2025-05-09)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Organ Blood Flow Monitoring Equipment and Associated Consumables, Maintenance and Support at St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH)
Short description:
Instructions: Tenderers must make their submission in a single .ZIP file, so as to avoid corruption of individual filenames of the files uploaded. SVUH welcomes requests for clarification/additional information during the relevant deadline. Summary of scope: SVUH carries out up to 66 Liver Transplants a year and up to 8 Pancreas Transplants a year, with clear planning to increase these volumes. We also operate on hundreds of complex cancer cases a year that require post-operative High Dependency Unit (HDU) level care. SVUH requires a clinically recommended piece of equipment to be used during surgery to check a patient’s blood flow measurements through the major vessels that have been operated on prior to closing up surgically, ensuring improved patient outcomes and increased safety levels. SVUH is seeking a solution for surgeons to measure transit flow time in the hepatic arteries and portal veins intraoperatively especially in Liver Transplants and other Hepatobiliary surgery. Required at a minimum: user-friendly interface with all updates, integrated printer, reusable consumables for the duration of the resulting contract, post-warranty aftersales customer support and comprehensive maintenance. Specifically, in summary, the Goods (primary) and Services (secondary) comprise of: Provision of a complete solution for Organ Blood Flow Monitoring; which will include with itemised costing, all auxiliary supplies and services that may be required i.e., equipment, delivery, installation and commissioning, training as needed, manuals and instructions, reusable consumables, (including third party equipment or consumables when original equipment or consumables do not meet the acceptable performance standards), warranty, ongoing preventative and reactive maintenance after the initial warranty period, customer support, wash solutions, filters, controls, peripherals, printers, cables, interfacing, all available firmware and software updates, necessary firmware and software upgrades, battery or batteries, spare parts parts (non-exhaustive list, with the maximum possible lifespan of any equipment in mind). Any contract that may result from this Competition (the “Goods Contract”) will be issued for a term of 24 months (“the Term”). The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to twelve (12) months with a maximum of eight (8) such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
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Type of contract: Supplies
Products/services: Surgical instruments 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 300 000 EUR 💰
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere in the given country
Description
Internal identifier: SVUH-24015
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Description of the procurement:
Summary of scope: SVUH carries out up to 66 Liver Transplants a year and up to 8 Pancreas Transplants a year, with clear planning to increase these volumes. We also operate on hundreds of complex cancer cases a year that require post-operative High Dependency Unit (HDU) level care. SVUH requires a clinically recommended piece of equipment to be used during surgery to check a patient’s blood flow measurements through the major vessels that have been operated on prior to closing up surgically, ensuring improved patient outcomes and increased safety levels. SVUH is seeking a solution for surgeons to measure transit flow time in the hepatic arteries and portal veins intraoperatively especially in Liver Transplants and other Hepatobiliary surgery. Required at a minimum: user-friendly interface with all updates, integrated printer, reusable consumables for the duration of the resulting contract, post-warranty aftersales customer support and comprehensive maintenance. Specifically, in summary, the Goods (primary) and Services (secondary) comprise of: Provision of a complete solution for Organ Blood Flow Monitoring; which will include with itemised costing, all auxiliary supplies and services that may be required i.e., equipment, delivery, installation and commissioning, training as needed, manuals and instructions, reusable consumables, (including third party equipment or consumables when original equipment or consumables do not meet the acceptable performance standards), warranty, ongoing preventative and reactive maintenance after the initial warranty period, customer support, wash solutions, filters, controls, peripherals, printers, cables, interfacing, all available firmware and software updates, necessary firmware and software upgrades, battery or batteries, spare parts parts (non-exhaustive list, with the maximum possible lifespan of any equipment in mind). Any contract that may result from this Competition (the “Goods Contract”) will be issued for a term of 24 months (“the Term”). The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to twelve (12) months with a maximum of eight (8) such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
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Additional products/services: Aim of strategic procurement: Reduction of environmental impacts
Please refer to the Request for Tenders, section 3.3. Award Criteria.
Approach to reducing environmental impacts: The transition to a circular economy
Green Procurement Criteria: Other Green Public Procurement criteria
Additional nature of the contract: Services
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Duration
Start date: 2025-09-01 📅
End date: 2027-09-01 📅
Description
Maximum renewals: 8
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-06-13 12:00:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2025-06-13 12:30:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5640643
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 6 months
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Opening date: 2025-06-13 12:30:00 📅
Place: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5640643
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic payment will be used
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2025-05-22 12:00:00 📅

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: St. Vincent's University Hospital
National registration number: 338585
Postal address: Elm Park
Postal code: D04 T6F4
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: procurementhelpdesk@svhg.ie 📧
Phone: 012214000 📞
URL: https://www.stvincents.ie/ 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.stvincents.ie/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Health
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=5640643 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=5640643 🌏
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
Please refer to the European Communities (Public Authorities’ Contracts) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (SI 130/2010) as amended (the Public Contracts Remedies Regulations).
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 091-307829 (2025-05-09)