Moscow buys tens of MRT-scanners and angiographs of Philips

At the beginning of February, 2020 Philips announced the conclusion with Moscow of delivery contracts of magnetic and resonant tomographs and the angiographic systems in capital medical institutions. The company not only will provide the equipment, but also will be engaged in its service maintenance for 10 years.

According to the results of open competitions the Philips company and GAU "Gormedtekhnika of the Moscow Department of Healthcare" signed delivery agreements in the Moscow clinics 36 of the Philips Ingenia Ambition MR-scanners and 14 angiographic Azurion 7 systems.

Moscow buys tens of MRT-scanners and angiographs of Philips

Bargains were concluded in a format of the contracts of lifecycle (CL). It means that Philips not only will deliver the equipment, but also will provide its working capacity. The key players of the market making the hi-tech medical equipment, as noted, participated in tenders on signing of the contracts.

It is important that the Government of Moscow designated need of full technical support as the key requirement to the supplier of devices. By our estimates, today the contract of lifecycle is the most economically reasonable model of ownership of the equipment including service maintenance, – the CEO of Philips in Russia and the CIS Maxim Kuznetsov noted.

According to him, such contracts allow to avoid additional paperwork and excess resource-intensive procedures. Besides, a downtime of the equipment at breakdowns is considerably reduced. KZhTs allows personnel not to be distracted by technical condition of the equipment, and to be focused on the main thing — on care of patients. 

The KZhTs format is accepted in many countries of Europe, in the USA and in South Korea. In Russia it was already applied in the transport and logistic sphere and in housing and public utilities, now will take its advantage also in health care, he added.