Radiotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and physical therapy devices

Tender description

Greater Glasgow Health Board (more commonly known as NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) operates the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre (being the Gartnavel General Hospital and the Lanarkshire Beatson) and has a requirement to replace its treatment Oncology Management System, two treatment planning systems (TPS) and Radiotherapy DICOM Archive under the Scottish Government’s Radiotherapy Capital Equipment Replacement Programme (CERP). This NHS requirement includes the provision for the purchase of the following products: Lot 1: Oncology Management System; Lot 2: Treatment Planning System 1; Lot 3: Treatment Planning System 2; Lot 4: Radiotherapy DICOM Archive. Contractors may tender for any single, or multiple lots, up to and including all four lots. Separate tenders should be submitted for each lot. Contractors may submit more than one tender for any given lot. A single tender for more than one lot combined will not be considered. The Oncology Management System (OMS) must operate as a single entity across the Beatson and be able to accommodate radiotherapy data and images for upwards of 230 000 patients, with over 4 000 000 treatment histories, and have the capacity for increases in radiotherapy workload for the next 5 years. The estimated increase in database growth is 10 GB per annum with accompanying image storage growth of approximately 2 TB per annum. It is envisaged that treatment planning systems 1 and 2 will facilitate different functions in clinical use. Treatment planning system 1 is intended to be the department’s primary pre-treatment planning system for almost all radical and palliative treatments. To this extent the systems requires capacity to host a large number of simultaneous users executing a variety of planning functions such as outlining, optimisation and dose calculation. It is envisaged that treatment planning systems 1 and 2 will facilitate different functions in clinical use. Treatment planning system 2 is intended primarily as a dose verification and quality assurance tool. It will perform multiple roles including secondary dose calculation for independent verification of monitor units, real time and offline verification of on-treatment delivery via logging of key treatment variables and EPID Dosimetry, and logging of the department’s QA activity. It is essential that the DICOM Archive offered provides a high level of integration, at both the software and hardware levels, with the Beatson’s existing imaging facilities and all commonly available Oncology Management Systems and treatment planning systems. The need to duplicate or import and export data and images must be minimised to maximise service efficiency and work.