Basic Information

Reference Number

0000247666

Issuing Organization

NL Provincial Health Shared Services Supply Chain

Owner Organization

NL Health Services

Solicitation Type

RFSQ - Request for Supplier Qualifications - Prequalifications (Formal)

Solicitation Number

2023-3480

Title

RFSQ - Innovation Partners

Source ID

PV.MN.NL..1083209.C108312

Agreement Type

Atlantic Procurement Agreement

Details

Location

Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador

Delivery Point

Newfoundland and Labrador

Description

In the 2022 budget, the Provincial Government announced its intention to create a single Provincial Health Authority for Newfoundland and Labrador. Re-imagining our health system was recommended by Health Accord NL to help improve health and health outcomes. Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services became effective April 1, 2023. The previous four (4) regional health authorities Eastern Health, Central Health, Western Health, Labrador Grenfell Health, and Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information (NLCHI) restructured into one Provincial Health Authority.

NLHS is seeking proposals on Innovation Partnerships as listed in accordance with the description and specifications as set out in Schedule “A”. This will establish a new list of vendors of record that was created by Eastern Health in 2018/2019 and refreshed in April 2021. Contracts in place with existing vendors of record for medical device design and implementation or application and software development and implementation will not be impacted should existing vendors of record decide not to respond to this request for qualifications.

Dates

Publication

2023/05/17 01:50:25 PM NDT

Bid Intent

Not Available

Question Acceptance DeadlineA - Latest Amendment

2023/08/23 10:35:00 PM NDT

Questions are submitted online

Yes

Closing DateA - Latest Amendment

2023/08/31 02:00:00 PM NDT

Contact Information

Denise O’Grady

open.calls@centralhealth.nl.ca

Required Acknowledgement

General Terms and Conditions

Bidder must Acknowledge that they have read, understood and agree to the attached Terms and Conditions

Bid Submission Process

Bid Submission Type

Electronic Bid Submission

Pricing

No Pricing

Bid Questions

Question Name	Question Description	Mandatory
Acknowlege/agree	You will be required to respond to one or more health care challenges issued by NLHS.	Yes
Acknowlege/agree	You will be required to provide a minimum of three seminars and or education sessions to our acceleration program participants and or NLHS employees to help promote a culture of innovation among our staff.	Yes
Acknowlege/agree	You will be required to pay a non-refundable $500.00 administrative fee for use of the HIAC building facilities.	Yes
Acknowlege/agree	NLHS owns the intellectual property rights to information issued in the healthcare challenge and discussed during the initiation phase.	Yes
Acknowlege/agree	Should the process move to the design and prototyping of a product or service, and procurement, intellectual property rights will be shared between NLHS and the vendor(s) and will be based on efforts, resource commitment and risk to each party.	Yes
Acknowlege/agree	Should the opportunity present for resale of the intellectual property developed, designed or prototyped as part of the health care challenge, revenue streams will be based on efforts, resource commitment and risk to each party.	Yes
Acknowlege/agree	You may be asked to enter into royalty arrangements/partnerships	Yes
Acknowlege/agree	There is no commitment for implementation of developed innovations by NLHS at the end of the process.	Yes
Schedule D - Privacy and Confidentiality Agreement	Will Schedule D - Privacy and Confidentiality Agreement be completed in its entirety and submitted upon award if you are the preferred bidder?	Yes
Acknowledgement of Addendums	I have read, understood and am in agreement with each of the addendums posted to the web site relative to this tender	Yes
Acknowledgement of Terms & Conditions	I have read, understood and am in agreement with all of the terms & conditions and requirements associated with this tender	Yes

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Bid Documents List

Item Name	Description	Mandatory	Limited to 1 file
Bid Documents	Documents defining the proposal (Limit of 25 pages)	Yes	Yes
Appendices	Limited to 10 pages.	No	Yes
Schedule C	Bidder information form	Yes	Yes
Schedule D	Required from Preferred Bidder upon award	No	Yes
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Additional Bidding Instructions

This RFSQ will pre-qualify respondents (the first part of the process) to participate in subsequent Request for Proposals (the second part of the process) outlining a healthcare challenge(s) to solve. Multiple vendors will be selected to establish a vendor of record list to receive limited call Request for Proposals (the second part of the process) outlining a healthcare challenge(s) to solve. Selection will be determined through a scoring process outlined in the RFSQ. Responses to this RFSQ should be 25 pages excluding appendices. Appendices are permitted however, should be limited to one (1) and a maximum of 10 pages.

Selected respondents will be invited to enter into an agreement through a subsequent limited call Request for Proposal process, which will govern the potential subsequent provision of the Deliverables pursuant to invitational second-stage competitive processes. The term of the Agreement will be determined through the limited call Request for Proposal process.

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