Notice Information
Notice Title
KMPT Portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging System (2025)
Notice Description
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (the "Trust") is expressing its intention to award a contract via a negotiated procedure without prior publication for the provision of a portable low-field (0.064 Tesla) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The contract will also include associated peripherals, training, support and maintenance services for a period of five (5) years.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (the "Trust") is expressing its intention to award a contract via a negotiated procedure without prior publication for the provision of a portable low-field (0.064 Tesla) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The contract will also include associated peripherals, training, support and maintenance services for a period of five (5) years.
The MRI scanner will be used for the purpose of accelerating and developing local place-based neuroimaging research into the process of assessment and diagnosis of dementia, in which timely access to neuroimaging is frequently a rate-limiting step. The scanner will also be available for researchers addressing other mental health disorders, such as research aligned to the new Kent Complex Psychosis Service and investigation of non-dementia mental illness in older and younger adults.
A key focus will be to aid the development of new AI algorithms in the assessment of structural change in dementia and cognitive decline - to decrease the need for high field MRI brain assessment in specialist centres and avoid the associated restrictive environment.
In order to support the Trust's research objectives, the Trust's requires a system which fulfils the following requirements:
* Approved for commercial sale in the UK (UKCA marked);
* Small and highly portable design in order to fit through doorways and elevators, and to provide ease of manoeuvrability;
* Magnetic configuration to enable researchers to work safely with participants during testing;
* Ability to be powered through standard electrical outlets;
* Low power consumption to reduce running costs;
* Open design to reduce participant anxiety; and
* Controlled through portable user-friendly wireless device (e.g. tablet). Additional information: The Trust considers that the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice to be permitted by Part 2 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
The Trust is publishing this voluntary transparency notice to express its intention to enter into the contract.
The Trust shall not enter into the contract before the end of a period of at least 10 days beginning with the day after the date on which this notice was published. The date in section V.2.1 'Date of conclusion of the contract' is therefore not correct. The Trust anticipates that it will enter into a Contract with the Supplier in December 2024.
The Trust expressly reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of the publication of this notice.
Procurement Information
It is considered that the award of the contract following a negotiated procedure without prior publication is lawful in accordance with regulation(s) 32(5)(a) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, whereby the portable low-field MRI system will be "manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experimentation, study or development, and shall not include quantity production to establish commercial viability or to recover research and development costs".<br/><br/>The portable low-field MRI scanner will be used for the purpose of accelerating and developing local place-based neuroimaging research into the process of assessment and diagnosis of dementia, in which timely access to neuroimaging is frequently a rate-limiting step. The scanner will also be available for researchers addressing other mental health disorders, such as research aligned to the new Kent Complex Psychosis Service and investigation of non-dementia mental illness in older and younger adults.<br/><br/>A key focus will be to aid the development of new AI algorithms in the assessment of structural change in dementia and cognitive decline - to decrease the need for high field MRI brain assessment in specialist centres and avoid the associated restrictive environment. The portable low field scanner will therefore be used in clinical research in alignment with current NHS England priorities, including reducing time to diagnosis and increasing dementia diagnosis rates, and to the priorities of clinical services both nationwide and internationally.<br/><br/>The portable low field MRI scanner has previously been used for Clinical Research in the NHS, gaining Health Research Authority (HRA) and UK Ethics approvals:<br/><br/>* 12/LO/1247 - West London & GTAC Research Ethics Committee,<br/>* 19/LO/1384 - City & East Research Ethics Committee.<br/><br/>It is also considered that the award of the contract following a negotiated procedure without prior publication is lawful in accordance with regulation(s) 32(2)(a)(ii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, whereby "competition is absent for technical reasons".<br/><br/>Following market research, the Trust is confident the required product and associated services are only capable of being provided by a single supplier. The Trust's guiding principles being the requirement for a portable low field MRI system most suitable for the acceleration and development of local place-based neuroimaging clinical research. This includes:<br/><br/>* Approved for commercial sale in the UK (UKCA marked);<br/>* Small and highly portable design in order to fit through doorways and elevators, and to provide ease of manoeuvrability;<br/>* Magnetic configuration to enable researchers to work safely with participants during testing;<br/>* Ability to be powered through standard electrical outlets;<br/>* Low power consumption to reduce running costs;<br/>* Open design to reduce participant anxiety; and<br/>* Controlled through portable user-friendly wireless device (e.g. tablet).<br/><br/>It is the Trust's belief that Xiel Ltd is the exclusive UK distributer of the Hyperfine(r) Portable MR Imaging(r) System, and is therefore the only economic operator capable of supplying an existing product which fulfils the above requirements in order to support the Trust's objectives for undertaking local place-based neuroimaging clinical research, and which can be delivered within the Trust's required timescales.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04bd0b
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037433-2024
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
33 - Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
-
- CPV Codes
33113000 - Magnetic resonance imaging equipment
33113100 - Magnetic resonance scanners
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £353,919 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 19 Nov 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 19 Nov 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- KENT AND MEDWAY NHS AND SOCIAL CARE PARTNERSHIP TRUST
- Contact Name
- Jake Fisher
- Contact Email
- kmpt.procurement@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- +44 1622926732
Buyer Location
- Locality
- AYLESFORD
- Postcode
- ME20 6WT
- Post Town
- Rochester
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ4 Kent
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ46 West Kent
- Delivery Location
- TLJ4 Kent
-
- Local Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Electoral Ward
- Larkfield
- Westminster Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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