REQUEST FOR INFORMATION This document is a request for information, not a procurement notice or a request for tender. With this request for information, HUS launches a market consultation to prepare a procurement. The aim of this prior information notice is to find suppliers operating in this field of business, get information of the solutions available in the market, and inform our plans and requirements for the forthcoming procurement. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE OF THE PROCUREMENT The subject of the procurement is equipment that enables continuous irrigation of the brain’s cerebrospinal fluid spaces. The device must also be capable of draining and continuously measuring intracranial pressure. The device is used in the treatment of neurosurgical intensive care patients. An example patient group includes those with intracerebral hemorrhage who also have blood in the cerebral ventricles. The irrigation device is indirectly connected to the patient via irrigation catheters. The device does not need to be integrated into the patient information system (Apotti). The planned location for the device is the S1 Intensive Care Unit, AB module, at Meilahti Hospital in Helsinki, Finland. INFORMATION FOR THE PROCEDURE HUS may specify the subject of the procurement in a subsequent contract notice. The requirements for a subsequent procurement and invitation to tender will be determined on the basis of the needs of the contracting entity, with the aim of taking into account the information obtained in the market survey. The request for information does not oblige the procurement unit to carry out the actual procurement, but the decision to initiate a possible procurement process is made separately. Neither the request for information nor its replies are binding on either party. Responding to a request for information does not affect the position of the tenderer in the forthcoming tender. The costs associated with responding to a request for information are borne by the respondent, and HUS does not pay compensation for responding to a request for information or participating the procurement procedure.