Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-12-23
Buyer: Luchtverkeersleiding Nederland
Country: NL
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 34962220 | 34966100 | 38111000 | 72212121

Technical requirements: Market Consultation for the Procurement of Radio Direction Finders and associated Processing Equipment
Air Traffic Control — The Netherlands (ATC-NL) wishes to replace the radio direction finder (processing) system that is currently deployed by ATC-NL. This VDF Environment consists of multiple VDF Facilities that are equipped with radio direction finders and located throughout the Netherlands. The VDF Environment also includes central processing equipment at the air traffic control centres.
The purpose, process and further details regarding this market survey are explained in the market survey consultation that can be downloaded free of charge from the Negometrix tender platform. Please note that this prior information notice is not part of a tender procedure and is used for market consultation purposes only. ATC-NL aims for the start of a tender procedure in 2018.
ATC-NL is a Dutch independent administrative organisation that is responsible for providing air traffic services to civil air traffic in the Dutch airspace in a safe, efficient and environmentally sensible way. In the Dutch Aviation Act, this and all other tasks of ATC-NL have been laid down. Besides the provision of air traffic services, these tasks consist of the provision of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) services (including the modernisation and management of these technical systems), giving aeronautical information, catering for air traffic control training and providing aviation charts and publications. In short, ATC-NL is responsible for the control of air traffic in the Dutch civil airspace as well as parts of the North Sea area and everything related thereto. ATC-NL became operational in 1923 and since 1993 as a so called "Independent Administrative Body (ZBO)".
Air Traffic Control — The Netherlands (ATC-NL) wishes to replace the radio direction finder (processing) system that is currently deployed by ATC-NL. This VDF Environment consists of multiple VDF Facilities that are equipped with radio direction finders and located throughout the Netherlands. The VDF Environment also includes central processing equipment at the air traffic control centres.
ATC-NL requests information in a non-competitive market consultation. This means that the spread/bandwidth in the answers coming from the market will be used amongst other to determine the definitive scope for a tender procedure. The information that ATC-NL requests, concerns mostly the commercially of-the-shelf (COTS) availability for equipment that can fulfil ATC-NL's requirements for the replacement of the VDF Environment.
The purpose, process and further details regarding this market survey are explained in the market survey consultation that can be downloaded free of charge from the Negometrix tender platform. The market consultation questionnaire contains specific questions for to which ATC-NL seeks your advice.
Please note that this prior information notice is not part of a tender procedure and is used for market consultation purposes only. ATC-NL aims for the start of a tender procedure in 2018.