EU’s Official Journal publishes a Prior Information Notice (PIN) for TIQUE, a European project to develop technologies and health services for the preventive monitoring of heart failure conditions

• EC co-founds more than €4.40 million to be invested in the project.
• TIQUE will channel the investment through a Pre-Commercial Procurement instrument to be launched June 2022
• An Open Market Consultation is scheduled to start October 2021

Barcelona, 23 July, 2021.- The Prior Information Notice (PIN) of European project TIQUE has been published in TED (Tenders Electronic Daily - Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU). The official publication offers preliminary information on TIQUE’s PCP and on the Open Market Consultation Events that will take place from October 2021 on.

TIQUE is directing a total of € 4.40 million, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, towards the development of innovative technologies and health services to monitor and respond faster to patients suffering from advanced heart failure in Europe. The investment will be channelled through a Pre-Commercial Procurement instrument, a type of tendering process, to be launched next spring.

An integrated care model

Research shows that, when dealing with chronic diseases, a strict patient follow-up prevents costly deteriorations. The current ICT includes tools that can be used to monitor patients in real time, and artificial intelligence to assess and interpret data to help anticipate the care needs of a patient at risk. The technology, applied in an integrated care model, where the patient is treated comprehensively, and where the treatment combines medical procedures with digitally informed community support, can spare patients unnecessary suffering and substantially relieve healthcare budgets.

To meet these challenges, TIQUE is working on tools to help the various interested organisations design their tender proposals. To this end, they will be able to access information on the requirements of the tender, share their projects with TIQUE, and obtain guidance in the search for potential partners, during the Open Market Consultation launched October 2021 and from then until January 2022. 

Further information will be available on TIQUE’s website: https://www.tiquepcp.eu/

ABOUT TIQUE

The three public procurers that form TIQUE’s buyers’ group are Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Catalonia), Azienda Sanitaria Locale Avellino (Italy), and Region Västerbotten (Sweden). Together they plan to acquire, through a Pre-Commercial Procurement instrument (PCP), innovaTIve and integrated care services that deliver QUick rEsponses to complex patients suffering from advanced heart failure.

Research shows that integrated care is a crucial step in tackling these problems. Patients' wellbeing and engagement can be maximized through shared decision-making, education and by supporting their self-management. Yet solutions for integrated care have so far only been implemented locally, and the market does not offer valid and comprehensive alternatives.

As systemic constraints do not allow public procurers to offer tenders towards this end, TIQUE has recognised that Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) tools offer a valid alternative. By stimulating the market to advance solutions through a PCP, TIQUE will help bring integrated care solutions that implement a predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory model of healthcare services for patients suffering from heart failure.

TIQUE is a project funded by the European research and development programme Horizon2020 under GA 965356.