Overview
Use this MRI RFQ Template as a structured starting point for hospital biomedical engineering and procurement teams. The final RFQ should be adapted to local clinical workload, site conditions, budget controls, and procurement policy.
The template is vendor-neutral. It asks vendors to itemize scope, provide evidence for technical compliance, disclose exclusions, and separate capital price from accessories, consumables, software, installation, training, and service.
WHO medical-device procurement guidance is treated as the baseline: the RFQ should show health service need, transparent requirements, value-for-money lifecycle review, and a plan for safe installation, operation, maintenance, documentation, and eventual replacement or decommissioning.
The WHO technical-specification format is also used as a structure check: device name/type, intended use, level of care, technical characteristics, utilities, accessories, consumables, spare parts, environmental conditions, training, warranty, maintenance, documentation, safety, standards, regulatory evidence, and decommissioning cautions should be addressed where relevant.
Required Specifications
- Field strength, bore size, table capacity, gradient amplitude/slew rate, RF chain, console, and workstation configuration.
- Required coil package by anatomy and clinical workload, with each coil priced and warrantied separately.
- MRI safety requirements including zoning, signage, emergency stop, quench planning, access control, and screening workflow support.
- Site planning for delivery path, fringe field, RF cage, HVAC, power, cooling, equipment room, and quench pipe where applicable.
RFQ wording examples
Use these examples to convert vague tender wording into measurable vendor responses. Adapt final clauses to the exact model, hospital workload, and local procurement rules.
Mandatory compliance
Weak wording
Equipment should be high quality and latest model.
Stronger RFQ clause
Bidder shall provide a clause-by-clause compliance matrix with comply, partially comply, not comply, or optional; each response shall include documentary evidence and cost impact.
Vendor evidence: Official datasheet, user manual extract, compliance matrix, itemized offer, and deviation list.
Evaluation note: Score measurable compliance and evidence. Do not score unsupported claims, brochure adjectives, or brand preference.
Lifecycle cost
Weak wording
Vendor should provide good service after warranty.
Stronger RFQ clause
Bidder shall submit five-year lifecycle cost including PM kits, consumables, major spare parts, batteries/sensors/probes where applicable, labor/travel, software support, and post-warranty rates.
Vendor evidence: Lifecycle price schedule, PM checklist, spare-parts list, service report sample, and escalation contacts.
Evaluation note: Compare total ownership cost and downtime risk, not purchase price alone.
Optional Specifications
- Advanced neuro, cardiac, breast, vascular, spectroscopy, motion correction, or accelerated imaging packages.
- Additional coils, post-processing workstations, injector compatibility, or advanced reporting/export tools.
- Extended coil warranty, uptime package, remote monitoring, or upgrade credits.
Accessories
- Coils, patient pads, positioning aids, MRI-compatible monitoring interface if required, injector interface, signage, and storage.
- Workstations, licenses, emergency accessories, and room communication accessories.
Compliance Requirements
- The bidder shall provide a clause-by-clause compliance matrix with documentary evidence for each mandatory and scored requirement.
- The bidder shall submit an itemized scope of supply, including main equipment, accessories, consumables, software/licenses, installation, commissioning, training, warranty, PM, spare parts, and exclusions.
- The bidder shall provide lifecycle cost information for at least five years, including consumables, PM kits, major spare parts, software support, labor/travel, post-warranty rates, and expected replacement items.
- The bidder shall provide an acceptance and handover plan covering configuration verification, safety/performance inspection, user training, biomedical handover, inventory data, manuals, warranty certificate, PM schedule, and service contacts.
- The bidder shall identify the generic device name, specific type or variation, intended level of use, clinical department, and functional purpose so the committee can confirm the offered device matches the actual service need.
- The bidder shall list utility requirements, environmental operating/storage limits, accessories, consumables, spare parts, packaging/labelling requirements, applicable standards, regulatory approval/certification, and decommissioning/disposal cautions.
- Name, category, and coding: generic name, specific type or variation, local naming/coding where available, and keywords linked to service area.
- Purpose of use: clinical or operational purpose, level of care, clinical department/ward, user group, and overview of functional requirements.
- Technical characteristics: critical measured or delivered parameters, ranges, displayed parameters, user-adjustable settings, alarms, compatibility, and interoperability.
- Physical and utility requirements: dimensions/mobility, electrical supply, battery, water, gas, drain, network, environmental operating/storage limits, humidity, dust, and transport/storage conditions.
- Accessories, consumables, and spare parts: required accessories, sterilization/reprocessing needs, consumables/reagents, first-year spare parts, post-warranty parts, and complementary equipment.
- Training, installation, and utilization: pre-installation work, commissioning checks, acceptance tests, user training, maintenance training, user care, cleaning, and basic troubleshooting.
- Warranty and maintenance: warranty start date, duration, exclusions/inclusions, maintenance support during warranty, PM tasks, corrective maintenance path, service contract type, upgrades, and local support.
- Documentation, standards, and decommissioning: operating/service manuals, calibration procedures, disposal hazards, expected life span, risk classification, regulatory approval/certification, international/local standards, and field safety communication path.
- Vendor must provide documentary evidence for each claimed technical compliance item.
- Equipment must be supplied with user manuals, technical documentation allowed under the service agreement, and installation/commissioning records.
- Electrical safety, cybersecurity, data integration, and infection control requirements must be reviewed against local hospital policy.
- Vendor must disclose all exclusions, third-party dependencies, site requirements, and recurring license or consumable obligations.
Warranty Requirements
- State magnet, gradients, coils, table, console, RF cage, chiller/cooling, workstation, and software warranty separately.
- Clarify helium, quench, coil damage, RF cage, chiller, and utility-related exclusions.
- State warranty duration and start date trigger: delivery, installation, commissioning, or acceptance.
- Separate coverage for main unit, accessories, batteries, probes, sensors, software, and third-party components.
- Clarify exclusions for consumables, user damage, utility problems, software upgrades, travel, labor, and preventive maintenance.
- Provide post-warranty service pricing and spare parts availability commitment.
Training Requirements
- Provide MRI safety orientation for relevant users and site staff.
- Provide application training by clinical protocol set and coil package.
- Provide end-user training before clinical handover.
- Provide biomedical engineering training covering routine checks, first-line troubleshooting, PM expectations, and escalation.
- Provide attendance records, training materials, and competency checklist where applicable.
Service Requirements
- Provide emergency response process for magnet, cooling, coil, table, software, and image quality failures.
- State PM frequency, image quality checks, coil testing method, remote diagnostics, and critical spare parts strategy.
- Disclose support boundaries for RF cage, chiller, HVAC, power, and third-party accessories.
- Acceptance shall create the inventory baseline: asset identification, serial numbers, software version, accessories, warranty dates, location, risk/criticality, PM interval, and service contact path.
- Maintenance planning shall distinguish performance inspection, safety inspection, preventive maintenance, and corrective maintenance rather than treating all service activity as one generic visit.
- The vendor shall provide PM procedures, required test equipment, spare-parts recommendations, service report format, escalation process, and training needed for hospital first-line checks.
- Service records shall be usable for audit and first-year review: fault history, parts used, measured values where applicable, open risks, corrective action, and next due date.
- Maintenance documentation shall state user-care tasks, cleaning/disinfection method, calibration or testing equipment, advanced maintenance tasks, software/hardware upgrade path, and post-warranty spare-parts availability.
- Vendor must state PM frequency, required test equipment, service response time, restoration escalation, reporting format, and spare-parts pathway.