Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

Concepts

• tomography devices
• clydebank
• golden jubilee national hospital
• oct
• intravascular optical coherence tomography
• only oct catheters
• available invasive oct systems
• optical probe
• abbott oct.
• abbott medical uk

Location

NHS Golden Jubilee

Description

Golden Jubilee National Hospital intend to purchase 1 x OPTIS Integrated Next Imaging System and 1 x Mobile Next Imaging System. These are medical imaging methodology using a specially designed catheter with a miniaturized optical probe attached to the distal end of the catheter. The proximal end of the catheter is attached to computerized equipment.

Total Quantity or Scope

The National Waiting Times Centre Board intends to enter into a contract with Abbott Medical UK Limited being the only option meeting our requirement. Abbott (Dragonfly) catheters are also the only OCT catheters to appear on the NHS Scotland procurement framework and these are exclusively used with the Abbott OCT. In accordance with our interpretation of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 the services can only be provided by the particular provider for technical reasons and competition is therefore absent for technical reasons due to the unique essential requirements of the equipment required, namely Abbott Medical UK Limited is currently the only manufacturer of commercially available Invasive OCT systems featuring automatic morphology detection.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 33115000 - Tomography devices

Legal Justification

The National Waiting Times Centre Board intends to enter into a contract with Abbott Medical UK Limited being the only option meeting our requirement. Abbott (Dragonfly) catheters are also the only OCT catheters to appear on the NHS Scotland procurement framework and these are exclusively used with the Abbott OCT. In accordance with our interpretation of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 the services can only be provided by the particular provider for technical reasons and competition is therefore absent for technical reasons due to the unique essential requirements of the equipment required, namely Abbott Medical UK Limited is currently the only manufacturer of commercially available Invasive OCT systems featuring automatic morphology detection.

Other Information

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