EU project TIQUE announces the launch of its Open Market Consultation designed to reach potential market players from all parts of the supply chain and invite them to join the planned activities by:

• Attending the virtual national and international events to listen directly from the buyers.
• Completing the Market Questionnaire and help inform the tender specification.
•  Participating in supplier matchmaking to find potential partners.
• Joining the Q&A sessions.

Barcelona, 29 September, 2021.- Before launching TIQUE’s call for tenders next year (June 21), TIQUE is embarking on an Open Market Consultation, starting October 2021. Successful pre-commercial procurement requires involving potential researchers, technology companies and service providers at the earliest possible stage. The Open Market Consultation (OMC) aims both to communicate and to explore:

• To communicate TIQUE’s plans to organisations out there developing ideas that can contribute to realising the vision.
• To explore compatible technologies, to mould TIQUE’s vision to reflect and harness the actual technological power offered by the market.

The OMC consists in an in-depth dialogue with the industry to clarify the objectives of the procurement, the Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) process and the main clauses to be included in the contracts.

TIQUE invites all interested companies to join the OMC activities to learn about the healthcare challenge being faced directly from its three procurers by attending any of the scheduled OMC Events.

The market response will inform the tender specification and enable the buyers to develop a co-creation model for the delivery of solutions that meet the buyers needs and have the flexibility to be adapted to different healthcare systems and situations.

The planned activities for the TIQUE OMC are:

• Four online events: three local events to be held in each of the buyers’ locations and an international event.
• A market questionnaire will be available on the project website, to gather information from the market on potential solutions to address the TIQUE challenge.
• A matchmaking tool to assist the development of collaborative partnerships between potential suppliers.

All events will be held online. Registration is open at: https://www.tiquepcp.eu/ca/web/tique/open-market-consultation

Further information will be available on TIQUE’s website: 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 (PCP) process, innovaTIve and integrated care services that deliver QUick rEsponses to complex patients suffering from advanced heart failure.

As there is no solution currently available to meet the buyers' needs, the Buyers Group wish to procure the research and development of a technology-enabled all-in-one solution to implement integrated care solutions to Advanced Heart Failure patients, flexible enough to adapt to a variety of European healthcare systems. The solution will include a Virtual Care Centre to facilitate the provision of the right care, at the right moment, in the right place.

TIQUE is directing a total of € 4.40 million, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme.

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