ICT Equipment

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

The Irish Air Navigation Service ran this procurement for “ICT Equipment” as an operational contract requiring implementation and sustained service execution. The extracted pack showed qualification-stage material with references to later ITT technical depth; practical activity therefore centred on building, integrating, and operating the specified service stack with compliant reporting and handover obligations where stated. Constituent activities and named work elements in the supplied extracts:

• Buyer: The Irish Air Navigation Service
• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• Tenderers must provide details of conformance to the ISO 9000 series or any other equivalent standard or system
• le monitor, AirNAV has actually been supplying generic 7-in-1 units for staff requiring “travel dock” funct
• 4.0.1. The AirNAV Ireland (AirNAV) has a requirement for the supply and configuration of laptops to be delivered to two of the AirNAV’s sites:
• 4.0.5. AirNAV intends to purchase commercial “off-the-shelf” systems that most closely meet our requirements.
• 1. AirNAV is not planning to replace all existing laptops immediately :- the intention would be to continue the current practice of replacing each laptop after 3 years of operation, when it is no longer under active vendor support.
• 1. Replacing laptops when they are three years old (and no longer under active support) makes great sense given the complexity of laptops, and the greater risk of running unsupported laptops,
• 2. State the model of docking station they are proposing to supply, whether:
• 4.1.8. If Candidates are proposing laptops with new docking stations that are in any way incompatible with the existing AirNAV docking stations, the Candidates should provide a very detailed description of the operational / deployment recommendations they would propose to overcome the potential support and operations issues that AirNAV has discussed in sections 4.1.1 – 4.1.6 above.
• [AirNAV Laptops RFT - Section 4 - Requirements and Specifications - Final (ver 1.0 - 12.05.2025).docx] operational / deployment recommendations they would propose to overcome the potential support and operations issues that AirNAV has discussed in sections 4.1.1 – 4.1.6 above.
• • Only comprehensive answers which give detailed reasons for how such support and operational issues might be avoided will be awarded any marks at all, Non-binding monetary references in the source were treated as context only and were not used as qualification thresholds.

3. Background & buyer context

The buyer context reflected a formal Irish public-procurement route, with pre-qualification used to control entry into the tender stage.

• 4.0. Introduction and Background
• 4.1 Interoperation with Existing Laptops
• 4.1 Interoperation with Existing Laptops and Existing Docking Stations
• Candidates are encouraged to bid laptops from their portfolio (from whatever vendor(s) they represent), targetted to be logical replacements for the existing AirNAV laptops.

4. Eligibility & selection criteria

• Turnover requirement — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• Insurance — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.; l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) Product Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) ; Professional indemnity €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) 2
• Certifications — l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) Product Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand)
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — not specified for this tender
• Geographic / facility constraints — not specified for this tender Additional binding lines surfaced in the deterministic extract:
• — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) Product Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand)
• Professional indemnity €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) 2

5. Award criteria & scoring

6. Submission requirements

• Method statement / response document (template/page limits) — not specified in extract.
• CVs (page count, named roles) — not specified in extract.
• Pricing schedule (format/template) — expected at ITT stage.
• Case studies (number/value range) — client references/comparable project evidence was referenced.
• Declarations (ESPD/Bona Fides/Tax/COI) — not specified in extract.
• Mandatory site visit — not specified in extract.
• Submission portal and formatting — not specified in extract. Submission-related source lines:
• 4.0.3. Candidates may submit proposals to address either:
• 1. Advise AirNAV that they do not wish to submit sample units,

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 12 months. Payment cycle, SLA/KPI schedule, and penalty regime were not fully disclosed in the snippets unless listed below.

• VERIFIED PHRASES (deterministic regex extract from the documents — treat as authoritative for numerical claims)
• l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) Product Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand)
• 2. Lot 2: Ancillary equipment to be provided for new desk positions (Section 4.3)
• 4.0.4. The Candidate should note that the minimum specifications for required equipment have been specified in the relevant sections (as per Section 4.0.2) and that Sections 4.4 onward deals with the ‘common’ requirements for each lot.
• 3. It would not be practical to deploy both new and old docking stations at all desks, and expect users to disconnect and re-connect monitor / peripheral cables to/from the relevant docking stations.
• 4. AirNAV’s committment to sustainability means that it has a preference to continue to use its existing peripheral devices (including monitors, keyboards, mice and docking stations) for so long as they are working reliably. In particular:
• 2. In contrast, replacing peripherals (including docking stations) which are working well just because they are three years old is less justifiable ... so long as the new laptops are fully compatible with the existing docking stations.
• 4.1.3. Based on the background information presented in section 4.1.2 above, while AirNAV does not wish to be proscriptive as to what brand / model laptop it is willing to entertain in bids from Candidates, there is a strong preference to selecting laptops which can be

9. Risks, red flags & unusuals

• Qualification gate: the deterministic extract included a turnover threshold line (— use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.), which can materially narrow bidder pool composition.
• The two-step process (PQQ then ITT) shifted effort to compliance evidence early, with competitive scoring detail potentially deferred.
• Technical and contractual granularity appeared ITT-dependent, increasing ambiguity at qualification stage for non-incumbent bidders.

10. SME fit assessment

This competition looked most accessible to firms with established public-sector tender capability, documented financial capacity, and direct operational experience in the relevant service category.

• Credible bidder profile — mid-sized to large specialist with formal QA/compliance process.
• Consortium / sub-contracting — not clearly specified in extract.
• Indicative bid-prep effort — 6 to 12 working days for evidence collation, form completion, and review cycles at PQQ level.
• Pwin signal — strongest for bidders with reusable qualification artefacts, comparable references, and low-friction mobilisation capability.

11. Where to dig deeper

• Source RFT/PQQ filenames: AirNAV Laptops RFT - Section 4 - Requirements and Specifications - Final (ver 1.0 - 12.05.2025).docx, RFT - Section 4 - Requirements and Specifications - Final (ver 1.0 - 12.05.2025).do, scheduled to occur within two days of the delivery of the sample units..
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Appendix/Schedule documents referenced in the source pack.