The tender book, published in September 2011, valued the contract at RON110.8 million, including VAT (EUR25.5 million). Consortia made up of UTI Systems and Certsign, Indra Sistemas (Spain) and Teamnet International, as well as Ericsson Telecommunications Romania and Software Development&Consulting SRL, also bid on the contract.
The first attempt to award the contract for the electronic health card system was cancelled in July 2011, after a contestation filed by Ericsson Romania.
A health insurance card will store the patient’s personal data (including personal numeric code, insurer code, expiry date, ID and acronym of the issuing health insurance house) and medical information such as blood type and Rh, special treatment, health status (health or chronically ill), as well as their option regarding the removal of their organs, after death, to be used in transplants.
The IT solution for the card system’s management will have to handle 15 million insured patients, 50,000 doctors, including 12,000 family doctors, 15 million visits per year, 22 million treatments per year, 3.5 million vaccinations per year, 20 million lab tests per year, 2.7 million house calls per year and 5.4 million hospital admissions per year.
Hewlett Packard Romania SRL is a member of American group HP, one of the world’s largest IT equipment producers. In 2010, the company posted turnover of RON340.7 million and net profits of RON44.7 million, according to data from the Finance Ministry.
Novensys is a local integrator of IT solutions developed by Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. It is controlled by Cezar Florin Golumbeanu – 22.8%, Andrei Stefan Caunii – 21.75%, Robert Florin Cristea – 22.05% and ICB Investment Limited – 33.4%. This year, the company expects turnover of EUR40 million, from EUR28 million in 2011.