ASL Taranto is seeking four LEEP electrosurgical systems: applications by October 23

The Local Health Authority of Taranto (Azienda Sanitaria Locale Taranto) has published in the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic, 5th Special Series – Public Contracts n. 119 of October 19, 2026, a notice of preliminary market consultation preparatory to the launch of a tender procedure for the supply of electrosurgical systems intended for LEEP procedures. The notice is identified by the official reference TX26BFK429. The deadline for the submission of applications is set for October 23, 2026, at 12:00 PM.

The Regulatory Framework and the Deciding Body

The initiative falls under Article 77 of Legislative Decree no. 36/2023, the Public Contracts Code, which regulates preliminary market consultations: a tool through which the contracting authority queries operators to better define the object and conditions of the future tender, without this constituting a direct award.

• Contracting Authority: Azienda Sanitaria Locale Taranto, Viale Virgilio 31, 74100 Taranto.
• Competent Department: Asset Management Area, tel. 099-7786622.
• Single Procedure Manager: Dr. Lorenzo Francesco Russo.
• Contacts: PEC areapatrimonio.asl.taranto@pec.rupar.puglia.it and portal www.sanita.puglia.it.

Publication in the special series dedicated to public contracts makes the notice fully accessible to the market, with the indication that the text is subject to the payment regime provided for advertisements.

What is Being Requested

The object of the consultation is the supply of electrosurgical systems for LEEP procedures complete with a dedicated smoke evacuation module. The requested configuration is divided into four total units:

• 3 units in outpatient configuration;
• 1 unit in operating room configuration, with an Argon coagulation module;
• ULPA-15 main filter for each system, within the smoke evacuation module.

This is therefore a mixed supply, combining outpatient needs — predominant in number of pieces — with more complex equipment intended for the operating room, where the Argon coagulation module expands the possibilities for intervention. The technical documentation and the application form for participation are available on the EmPulia (www.empulia.it) and www.sanita.puglia.it websites.

Timing and Participation Methods

The useful window for economic operators is very narrow: the notice was published on October 19, 2026, and applications must arrive by 12:00 PM on October 23, 2026, four days later. Those intending to express interest must therefore immediately obtain the technical specifications and application from the indicated portals and transmit them according to the procedures provided therein.

On the same page of the gazette, ASL Taranto also publishes the outcome of a previous preliminary market consultation regarding an integrated high-end analytical ecosystem for the laboratory: in that case, only one proposal was received, from the economic operator Waters S.r.l., which was deemed compliant by the contracting authority. A precedent that indicates how these consultations, although non-binding, effectively guide the subsequent tender.

Why it matters

For companies in the electromedical device sector, this is a low-barrier entry opportunity: the consultation does not require a financial offer, but allows them to influence the technical specifications that will end up in the call for tenders. For the Apulian health service, the stakes are the modernization of equipment for outpatient and operative gynecological surgery, with explicit attention to the safety of work environments through the aspiration of surgical fumes and ULPA-15 class filters.

Official source: Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, 5th Special Series – Public Contracts, no. 119 of October 19, 2026, notice TX26BFK429, Azienda Sanitaria Locale Taranto.