Belgium – Blood analysers – Bloedgasanalyses

The clinical laboratory of VITAZ vzw wishes to renew, through this public contract, the current blood gas equipment located on the various campuses, with a view to ensuring fast and accurate blood gas analyses. The subject of this contract includes blood gas analyses consisting of the use of the equipment (including delivery, installation, programming with regard to IT, commissioning with all reagents and consumables required for this, omnium "all-in" service, maintenance and quality control materials during the period that the equipment is in use with the contractor) and the deliveries of the consumables on the basis of a framework agreement with an initial term of 4 years, renewable twice for a period of 2 years each. With regard to the application of the analyses, the laboratory aims for a compact cassette system with reagents. With regard to central management of all devices from the clinical laboratory (remote operation with, among other things, monitoring of device status), the necessary middleware and IT links (bidirectional LIS link (the LIS in Vitaz is GLIMS (clinisys)) and its implementation) are also part of the contract. The middleware makes it possible to manage the various devices centrally from the clinical laboratory (remote operation with, among other things, monitoring of device status, remote control). The reagents of the blood gas devices are offered compactly in a cassette system. With regard to the equipment to be provided, the contractor wishes for a suitable number of devices for performing approximately 40,000 analyses per year, with a minimum of 9 devices. Blood gas analyses must be able to be performed at a minimum on human arterial blood/venous blood (supplied via blood gas syringe to the device) and capillary blood (supplied via capillary to the device). The minimum required parameters on the blood gas devices are: Measured: pH, pCO2, pO2, hemoglobin and COOX (tHb, fractions O2Hb, MetHb, COHb), potassium, sodium, chloride, lactate, ionized Ca2+, chloride, glucose, bicarbonate. Temperature correction of pH, pCO2, pO2 blood gas results should be possible. All devices, reagents and parameters meet the requirements of FAGG and have the CE-IVD label. The collection material (collection syringes and collection capillaries) does not explicitly form part of this contract.