KESKEYTYSILMOITUS: Machine washable medium-risk pressure relief mattresses with reinforced side walls and evacuation handles

The procurement object is the delivery of machine washable medium-risk pressure relief mattresses with reinforced side walls and evacuation handles to HUS Bridge Hospital, which will open in 2023. As mattress washing at Bridge Hospital will be performed in an automatic bed and mattress washing machine, the washable mattresses must be designed to withstand washing and mechanical chemical disinfection.

The procurement object is the delivery of machine washable medium-risk pressure relief mattresses with reinforced side walls and evacuation handles to HUS Bridge Hospital, which will open in 2023. As mattress washing at Bridge Hospital will be performed in an automatic bed and mattress washing machine, the washable mattresses must be designed to withstand washing and mechanical chemical disinfection. The Client will procure to the HUS Bridge Hospital approximately two hundred and fifty (250) machine washable medium-risk pressure relief mattresses with reinforced side walls and evacuation handles. The first order, concerning approximately two hundred and fifty (250) mattresses to HUS Bridge Hospital, must be delivered to the Client according to the delivery terms. The procurement includes an option for purchasing similar mattresses for the Client’s other hospitals, because the Client is planning to buy an equivalent automatic bed and mattress washing machine for Meilahti Tower Hospital, the future Laakso Multi-Hospital, and Jorvi Hospital during the contract period. As an option the Client is planning to procure approximately 900-1500 machine washable medium-risk pressure relief mattressess with reinforced side walls and evacuation handles. The quantities given in the call for tenders are based on preliminary assessments made by the Client and are not binding to the Client. The procurement does not include any obligation to purchase a certain quantity or provide the supplier with the sole right to supply the Client with the mattresses that are the procurement object. The washing program used to wash the mattresses and beds was described in more detail in Annex 2 of the call for tenders “Washing program information and description”. Also, as an additional information, a video of the washing process has been made and it is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GZBOVSRRJc The contracting entity is not responsible for the video or its content, since the video is only meant to be additional information for tenderers to describe the washing process, not a part of the call for tenders or e.g. its requirements. In other words, the video was not part of the procurement documents. The procurement object was described in more detail in the “Criteria related to the procurement object” section of the call for tenders, as well as in the annexes of the call for tenders.

According to Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts subsection 1 of section 125 a procurement procedure may only be suspended for a real and legitimate reason. According to the legislative proposal for Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (HE 108/2016 vp, p. 223) the section 125 will remain as it is in the section 73a in the former Act on Public Procurement (348/2007). According to the legislative proposal for the former Act on Public Procurement (HE 182/2010 vp, p. 22) the contracting entity must draw attention, while evaluating the reason for suspension of the procurement procedure if the suspension is based on a real and legitimate reason and if the decision to suspend will have a discriminatory effect to the candidates or tenderers. In the case law, for example, an acceptable ground for suspension has been that no suitable tenders have been received at all. In the procurement of machine washable medium-risk pressure relief mattresses with reinforced side walls and evacuation handles, there was the only tenderer to submit a tender. After excluding this tenderer from the competitive tendering there are no suitable tenderers, who submitted a suitable tender, left in the competitive tendering that could be selected as a winner. Therefore, the contracting entity states that there is a real and legitimate reason to suspend the procurement and that the decision to suspend the procurement won’t have a discriminatory effect on the tenderers. For these grounds, the contracting entity decides to suspend the procurement of machine washable medium-risk pressure relief mattresses with reinforced side walls and evacuation handles.