Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

This exemption is for preventative maintenance agreement for the hemodialysis water purification system. The hemodialysis water purification system assists the Dialysis department in meeting and maintaining the pure water requirements mandated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), needed in the delivery of hemodialysis treatments to patients at both the hospital and the outpatient dialysis unit.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes of the Procurement Code because the procurement expenditure is for medical supplies or medical services necessary for the delivery of care and treatment at medical, dental, or veterinary teaching facilities utilized by SIU or U of I (30 ILCS 500 / 1-13(b-5)) Dialysis requires hemodialysis water purification equipment and supplies to provide approximately 15,000 hemodialysis treatments to patients of the University of Illinois Hospital and Outpatient Dialysis Unit annually. In order to meet and maintain pure water requirements mandated by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and AAMI, it is imperative that this service continue.