Telematics system

Tender description

Irish Water requires the turnkey provision of an Enterprise National Telemetry (Master Station) System. This tender is for: (1)A Supply Contract covering the design, build, implementation, testing (including testing with third party telemetry field devices), data and display migration, configuration, migration and provision of an initial number of telemetry field devices and optionally a data historian, and (2)A Support and Maintenance Contract for the system for a duration of 5 years with a possible extension or extensions for any period or periods up to a further 5 years. Core requirement is the supply of a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Telemetry (Master Station) System that has a proven track record in other water utilities. The system will be a modern telemetry system designed to be a real-time, high resilience, high availability, high security system, capable of supporting approximately 10 000 sites, providing for the collection and dissemination of data for use throughout Irish Water's business, for whole of ROI. Irish Water requires the turnkey provision of an Enterprise National Telemetry (Master Station) System. This tender is for: (1) A Supply Contract covering the design, build, implementation, testing (including testing with third party telemetry field devices), data and display migration, configuration, migration and provision of an initial number of telemetry field devices and optionally a data historian and (2) A Support and Maintenance Contract for the system for a duration of five years with a possible extension or extensions for any period or periods up to a further five years. Tenderer's offers will be evaluated on the basis of both contracts and both contracts will be awarded to a single supplier. The core requirement is the supply of a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Telemetry (Master Station) System that has a proven track record in other water utilities. The system will be a modern telemetry system designed to be a real-time, high resilience, high availability, high security system, capable of supporting approximately 10 000 sites, providing for the collection and dissemination of data for use throughout Irish Water's business, covering the whole of the Republic of Ireland. The scope of the Supply Contract will include the design, build, testing, database and displays configuration, commissioning of the system and the migration of an initial number of approximately 1 500 sites which are currently monitored by legacy telemetry or SCADA systems. It will also include the configuration and support for the migration of another approximately 2 000 sites onto the system. The Supplier will be required to provide the new Telemetry System as a complete Master Station system including the hardware, software and communications equipment. The system must be a true telemetry system designed for water industry use, rather than a SCADA system. The basic use of the telemetry system will be to monitor the remote sites, provide a means of remote intervention, and alarm mana...