LPS Northern Ireland INSPIRE portal

Tender description

Land & Property Services (LPS) on behalf of Northern Ireland Assembly requires the capability to meet the demands of the EU INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) Directive (2007/2/EC). The solution also aims to provide a means of accessing and sharing spatial data in Northern Ireland not just those datasets that fall within INSPIRE. This will involve the design and implementation of a web-based geo-portal for spatial data. The portal must provide INSPIRE compliant discovery, view and download services enabling an integrated means of accessing Northern Ireland’s spatial datasets and services. The portal must enable larger more capable data providers to link their data to the portal via web services. The portal must also meet the needs of data providers with no web services, with the facility to have their data stored and published. The portal must meet all the demands of the INSPIRE technical specification and guidance documents and must as a minimum comply with the performance criteria specified in the INSPIRE network regulation. The portal will also need to interface with the UK INSPIRE portal registry system to allow Northern Ireland data to be discovered and viewed through this interface.