Ireland – Hospital and related services – The Provision of a Treatment Pathway for Low Complexity Spinal Patients

Description

The Contracting Authority intends to establish a framework agreement with suitably-qualified and experienced medical service providers to deliver end-to-end outpatient assessment, diagnostic and surgical treatment pathways for a cohort of approximately 1,200 patients. A low-complexity spine patient is defined as an individual with a straightforward, one or two level or localised spinal condition that requires standard surgical or medical management with minimal technical difficulty and lower physiological risk. Under the framework agreement, the successful tenderers will assume responsibility for patients from the first specialist outpatient assessment, through surgical intervention (if clinically indicated) until discharge. The successful framework operators shall assume clinical responsibility for the entire patient-care pathway, from initial specialist assessment through all clinically-indicated diagnostic, conservative, interventional and surgical management measures and associated specialist review. The service must be delivered by appropriately-qualified and accredited spinal surgical, medical, nursing, physiotherapy, radiology and allied health professionals, with access to anaesthetic / pain expertise where required.

Key facts

Procedure

open

Framework agreement

Yes — a framework or dynamic purchasing system, not a single contract

Submit via

https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=9293608

Contact

tendering@beaumont.ie

Framework ceiling

€2.0m

Bids opened

4 Nov 2026, 11:30 GMT

Regime

publicSector

Category

services

Ground given for limiting competition

The buyer’s own stated reason for awarding without open competition, as published. Their assertion, not a finding.

Urgency: The subject matter of this framework agreement comprises ‘Hospital Services’ for the purposes of the procurement regulations. Consequently, this competition is governed solely by Title III of Directive 2014/24/EU. On this basis, the Contracting Authority is availing of shortened timescales in order to establish this framework agreement. Moreover, the Contracting Authority reserves the right, at its discretion, to negotiate the terms of submitted tenders and to negotiate the award of contracts under this framework agreement with the successful framework members.