Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has won the right to reapply for a contract with a proton therapy center in Sweden, after a Swedish court ruled that the contract had been granted wrongly to Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA.
In August, Varian was named to supply an estimated $60 million in products for Skandionkliniken, a new national proton therapy center owned by a consortium of seven of Sweden's counties.
However, IBA filed a complaint with the administrative court of Uppsala, Sweden, asserting violations of the application process, including that offers were wrongly evaluated, according to the Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium-based company.
The contract, which included a five-year service agreement valued at approximately $25 million, called for Varian to supply a superconducting cyclotron, a beam line, and treatment room gantries, along with its Aria information management software and Eclipse treatment planning software.
On December 3, the court ruled there was a basis for IBA's complaint and ordered the cancellation of the contract grant. Subject to an appeal of that decision by the Joint Authority of County Council for Advanced Radiation Therapy, the tendering procedure for a new contract is scheduled to proceed, the company said.
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