Third bidder ‘cautiously optimistic’ on Mater Dei tender

The new managing director for Technoline Ltd, Simon Cusens on Monday said that he was "cautiously optimistic" the Medea Consortium had a good chance of winning the tender for the supply of medical equipment for the new hospital at Tal-Qroqq after the contracts appeals board reversed the original decision.
Mr Cusens was speaking at a reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of Technoline’s operations. The company, which provides medical and scientific equipment as well as servicing, forms part of the Medea consortium that represented the Dutch company Simed International in the bid for the Mater Dei contract.

Mr Cussens spoke at length on the Mater Dei contract saying that he had been working on it since 1992. spoke at length on the Mater Dei contract saying that he had been working on it since 1992. He also described the contract as an important step for the company.
Given the size of the Mater Dei contract Technoline have had to join forces with two other rival Maltese companies to form the Medea Consortium. The consortium represented the Dutch medical supplier Simed International in the tender bid.
The decision by the contracts appeals board to reverse the original decision to award the tender to Italian consortium Inso and the subsequent decision to disqualify German consortium Hospitalia International has left the third bidder, Simed International, high and dry with the possibility of clinching the tender bid.