Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2022-08-24
Buyer: Irish Aviation Authority
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 2000000 EUR

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
This Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT) is published by Irish Aviation Authority on behalf of itself and the following contracting entities/authorities:
1) Austro Control Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrtmit beschränkter Haftung (ACG), Schnirchgasse 17, 1030 Wien, Austria (AT);
IAA is publishing this VEAT Notice on behalf of the aforementioned contracting entities/authorities for the purpose of entering into a Cooperation Agreement between , ACG, CCL, IAA and Naviair, and LFV for the provision by LFV of internal resources and cost sharing arrangements, to enable the preparation of the COOPANS Common SWIM Solution to the benefit of all parties to the Cooperation Agreement.
This Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT) is published by Irish Aviation Authority on behalf of itself and the following contracting entities/authorities:
1) Austro Control Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrtmit beschränkter Haftung (ACG), Schnirchgasse 17, 1030 Wien, Austria (AT);
IAA is publishing this VEAT Notice on behalf of the aforementioned contracting entities/authorities for the purpose of entering into a Cooperation Agreement between , ACG, CCL, IAA and Naviair, and Luftfartsverket (LFV) for the provision by LFV of internal resources and cost sharing arrangements, to enable the preparation of the COOPANS Common SWIM Solution to the benefit of all parties to the Cooperation Agreement.
The COOPANS Alliance members are parties to the SESAR Deployment Framework Partnership Agreement, Consortium Agreement and Internal Cooperation Agreement and the Specific Grant Agreement for Implementation Project 2017_066_AF5 Implementing harmonised SWIM (Y) solution.
The COOPANS Alliance’s cooperation is unique in the European ATM system management landscape in terms of its duration, scope, participation, ambition, and organisational abilities. Constantly aiming for efficiency gains, the current organisational development of the COOPANS Alliance is replacing the classical “comitology” concept of cooperation where all partners jointly work and decide on all issues by a more integrated (“company-like”) governance and allocation of tasks. Under this progressive concept, an individual COOPANS member takes over tasks and functions on behalf of their fellow COOPANS Members.
The costs of the activity by one COOPANS member is then balanced amongst the other COOPANS members within appropriate financial periods. To this end, COOPANS have gradually implemented and are further developing a common cost sharing model to allow (i) the allocation of major internal efforts as well as external cost to individual partners and (ii) the corresponding COOPANS-internal cost reimbursement for both internal and external cost.
In the overall scope and duration of the COOPANS Alliance, the Common SWIM Project is one of numerous activities the COOPANS members have collaborated on and is a strategically important priority.
As part of the COOPANS Alliance’s forward-looking approach to ensure the highest level of participation, the COOPANS members have allocated the upcoming phase i.e., the further work to generate the COOPANS Common SWIM Solution to LFV. Once the Common Solution has been generated and made available by LFV, each COOPANS member will then locally implement and deploy it at its own premises and at its own cost.
Due to the lack of resources within the COOPANS members, the parts of the project related to SWIM functionality has had limited technical progress. Upon request from other COOPANS members, LFV agreed to take on the task of leading the development of Common SWIM solution that will serve as a basis for local implementations by each Signatory
In respect of the Common SWIM Solution, LFV will perform the necessary tasks with internal resources as well as external support. This Agreement addresses LFV’s internal resources, the cost of which will be shared equally between the COOPANS members. LFV will be compensated by the other COOPANS members according to their respective shares on a strict and transparent cost-only reimbursement basis.
In accordance with the provisions of Article 12 Paragraph 4 of Public Procurement Directive 2014/24EU each of the aforementioned contracting entities/authorities intend to enter into this Cooperation Agreement on the basis of (i) the exclusivity of the services being provided by LFV to the other parties which can only be provided by an air navigation services provider, and (ii) that the Common SWIM Solution is developed and deployed with the aim of ensuring that the public services they have to perform are provided with a view to achieving objectives they have in common.


Winner: Luftfartsverket
Award value: 2000000