Procurement of openEHR-related systems and services
This page is intended for describing and discussing procurement of openEHR-related systems. Seeing other organisations' documents can inspire and help improve future procurements, thus helping both buyers and sellers.
Please note that this page is just an informal community effort attempting to spot interesting things, not a proper legal procurement announcement service. There may be many other ongoing and past procurements RFIs (Request For Information) etc that are not listed here, please list any procurements or details/documents you know of that are missing below.
Resources and links related to procurement and requirements-specifications for openEHR-related systems:
Different parts of the technical specifications, https://specifications.openehr.org/, are usually refered to in procurements etc.
The conformance specification, https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/CNF/latest/index currently being worked on can be of special interest for testing of technical requirements.
Known current, and planned coming procurements, RFIs etc
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| Phase 1 (qualification) closes 2023-10-12 23:59 CET, see procurement portal for details. |
Past procurements, RFIs etc
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ITT to participate in the 100,000 Genome information integration research project | Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children ( NHS trust) on behalf of The North Thames Genomic Medicine Centre (NTGMC) |
| Closing Feb 17, 2017 |
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RFI regarding multi purpose openEHR platform | Region Östergötland, Sweden | https://ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:083200-2018:TEXT:EN:HTML | Opening Feb 21, 2018 | Tieto/Marand system was selected for pilot experiments during 2019. DIPS system was close in evaluation score. |
Innovation friendly home monitoring platform for 10k patients. Initially for patients with heart failure, COPD, Asthma etc in home settings and similar environments. There is a requrement that the solutions can store information using openEHR in a platform provided by the region. | Region Östergötland, Sweden | https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:294294-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0 | Opening Jun 20, 2019 | Awardet to …?… that promised (future?) capabilities to export data in openEHR format |
RFP for Shared Health Record Open Platform (SHROP) Proof of Concept | MOHW Jamaica | EOI’s submitted from: Atomica Informatics, Core Consulting, Ernst & Young Services Limited, Interneuron CIC, Mona School of Business, Quidgest, VAMED Management und Service GmbH,WeUsThem Inc. | Opening April 6, 2021 Closing June 15, 2021 Contract Awarded December 2021 | OpenEHR/FHIR based Platform ~ Fluxmed procured from Core Consulting (Brazil) as Proof of Concept. |
RFI for National EHR pilot | MOHW Jamaica | MOHW Jamaica RFI for national EHR system (Partly related news: https://www3.paho.org/ish/index.php/en/stories?id=118 ) | 2020… Procurement was delayed. Contract awarded November 2022. | Contract awarded to tpp Systmone.
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Procurement of multi purpose openEHR platform (with support for rapid application dvelopment) | Region Östergötland, Sweden | Pre procurement invitation (PDF) attached below, also see Swedish openEHR procurements & RFIs
| Pre procurement invitation opened 24 jan 2020 Procurement was planned to open March 2020, but was postponed due to internal reorganisation etc. | Feedback gained from pre-procurement activities resulted in a requirements document reviewed by vendors and that has been partly reused in procurement by other actors. |
Region of Catalonia |
| 2021 | Link to PDF* with RFI evaluation result - including a list of the 15 companies that responded (PDF also attached below on this page). See also https://discourse.openehr.org/t/final-report-region-of-catalonia-rfi-on-technological-elements-to-build-an-open-platform-using-openehr/3005 | |
Service Contract for the development of an innovative and intelligent system of regional health data network architecture for learning (INFOBANCO) for the Community of Madrid | *) Also attached as as PDF on this wikipage | Bid closing date 03 January 2022 | Winner: NTT DATA Europe & Latam (in partnership with Better) See e.g. https://news.better.care/en/infobanco-innovative-use-of-health-data-for-research-and-analysis | |
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Catalan Health System launches tender for openEHR Clinical Data Repository service (CDR) | Catalan Health System | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jordipiera_activity-6999033781441490945-H7mf/ | Closing 21 Dec 2022 |
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7 Swedish healthcare regions: | RFI responses (the non-confidential ones) are attached to this page: Better, CaboLabs, Dedalus, DIPS, Eweave, MedBlocks
| Closing date May 10th 2023 | Report attached to this page, in both English and Swedish 
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Framework agreement Karolinska/Stockholm procurement of Digital health platform (CDR, tools, services, consultants) | Karolinska University Hospital is coordinating a procurement for several organisations active in Region Stockholm and Region Gotland. Organisations besides Karolinska are: Södersjukhuset AB (SÖS), Södertälje sjukhus AB, Danderyd Sjukhus AB, Tiohundra AB, St Eriks Ögonsjukhus, Ambulanssjukvården i Storstockholm AB (AISAB), Hälso- och sjukvårdsförvaltningen (HSF), Stockholms läns sjukvårdsområde (SLSO), Region Gotland. | The official EU-tender call is/was available at https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:555615-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0 The files prefixed by “Karolinska-DHP2023-” belong to this procurement. | Phase 1 (qualification) closed 2023-10-12 Phase 2 was later out to qualified respondents. | Framework agreement was signed with the following companies in the three procurement areas, alphabetically ordered within each category: 1. openEHR-based Software (CDR+PMI+Form/UI solutions etc.)
2. Software for openEHR content Creation and Transformation (tools, auxillary systems etc).
3. Consulting Services
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First call-off, regarding Tender Area 1 (CDR etc) from the framework Karolinska/Stockholm procurement of Digital health platform (CDR, tools, services, consultants) | Karolinska University Hospital coordinated the call-off for the organisations of the above described framework agreement. | The files prefixed by “Karolinska-2024-A1C1-” belong to this procurement | Winner announcement July 15th, 2024 | Winners in the first call-off from Tender Area 1 were Tietoevry (see their press release). Tietoevry and Better are business partners so the contract includes a combination of CDR, tools etc. from Better and Tietoevry’s Care Desktop and other framework parts (that are used e.g. in Finland). |
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More information wanted, please add/edit bullet points or add entries in the tables above:
The Caribbean Looks to Build Capacity on the OpenEHR Reference Model and Develop Specific Core Archetypes http://www.paho.org/ish/index.php/en/stories?id=118