Extended deadline - Market consultation for telemedicine in Intensive Care Units

THALEA has extended the deadline for the open market consultation from January 31 to February 28, 2014. After the open market consultation, the PCP process will start with a call for tenders in Spring 2014.
THALEA enables Intensive Care Units to improve the care for acutely live-threatened patients by telemedicine and telemonitoring. Thalea invites all companies in the EU to fill in an online questionnaire on the THALEA PCP Challenge.

The THALEA project is implemented by pre-commercial procurement (PCP). This innovative process presents an opportunity for suppliers to develop new solutions and to introduce new technologies and products in direct cooperation with the target industry. The PCP process is flexible and allows an early dialogue between potential suppliers and the hospitals in order to optimize the ICU telemedicine system. The PCP process can be very beneficial in a situation where there is no existing system yet in the market.

This Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) aims at developing an interoperable, manufacturer-independent telemedicine-platform for detection of ICU-patients at increased risk. This PCP aims also at enabling regional or national ICU telemedicine centers to improve the care of critically ill patients. The new innovative ICU telemedicine system to be developed in THALEA makes it possible to gather information from different types of patient data management systems, analyze and condense the massed data from all monitored patients into relevant information and to present this information to monitoring physicians at regional telemedicine centers.

With the market consultation, the consortium wants to get insight into the market; the state of the art and future developments of telemonitoring and telemedicine systems in order to prepare an adequate procurement with the right and feasible scope.

After an initial tender, the PCP process can be divided into three phases:
1. In the first phase, the consortium will evaluate the tenders with respect to their technical, economical and organizational viability (budget € 200,000, effort 5 suppliers € 40,000);
2. In the second phase, the suppliers introduce a prototype of the ICU telemedicine systems that have been chosen for further development to prove the functional requirements of the system (€ 600,000, effort 3 suppliers € 200,000);
3. In the third phase, the suppliers develop a pilot system (€ 750,000, effort 2 suppliers € 375,000).