WILLEMSTAD - With the opening of the new hospital planned for the end of 2019, Hospital Nobo Otrobanda considers it important to provide information about the acquisition system and the standard tendering procedures that have been followed for the purchase of the entire establishment of the Curacao Medical Center. The tendering procedures are laid down in the Management Agreement as determined by the Country Curaçao in 2011 and agreed with SONA / Berenschot. SONA and later Hospital Nobo Otrobanda Transition and Operation have to adhere to these guidelines regarding the purchase of the inventory for the new hospital.
A general hospital inventory means: 1. Fixed Medical Institution (VMI). 2. Individual Medical Device (LMI), 3. Medical Inventory (INV). 4. Other inventory (other INV), including hospital beds, loose furniture, restaurant and kitchen equipment, cleaning equipment and 5. The IT facilities including the Hospital Information System (HiX), the Electronic Patient File (EPD) and others, such as servers, computers , software to support the primary and secondary process and office automation of the new hospital. The management agreement prescribes a number of requirements: the acquisition system must comply with the applicable European Union procurement guidelines. The relationship between quality and future-proofing in relation to the available financial resources must be taken into account at all times. Furthermore, a number of criteria have been established such as: "proven technology", continuity of care, sustainable operational, deployment of local capacity, "expert driven" and recruitment for the overall design directly at the source to get the most out of the available budget.
Curaçao has no local producers for Fixed and Single Medical Facilities and Medical Inventory. The use of intermediary agents, who would have obtained the required equipment from abroad - not necessarily at the source - would have led to an estimate of between 20% and 40% higher costs. Which means an additional 10 to 20 million dollars on the total pre-available budget of 50.4 million dollars. The procurement process for the purchase of an establishment proceeds as follows in short: 1. Market exploration with potential suppliers. 2. Selection of suppliers. 3. Indicative offer from selected suppliers and 4. "Best and Final Offer" from selected suppliers (BAFO). So far, SONA and HNO have gone through a procurement process in which 19 of the 30 acquisitions have been realized successfully and within the predetermined available investment budget. The 11 remaining interweaves will be completed soon. Local companies have also won BAFO and have been selected for IT, restaurant and kitchen equipment and cleaning equipment. For ICT, there are 10 local companies that have supplied ICT network, hardware, software, peripheral equipment, telephony, data services, wireless network (WiFi), internet, patient infotainment, support for installation of fiber optic network. There is currently a recruitment process for radios. One cleaning company has won BAFO for cleaning equipment and another one for supplying restaurant and kitchen equipment.