Invitation to Tender : Development of the technical components of the INSPIRE geo-portal at European Union level

The European Commission has launched a call to tender for the development of the technical  components of the INSPIRE Geo-portal at European Union level. Whilst INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures of the Member States, the INSPIRE Directive also requires that "The Commission shall establish and operate an INSPIRE geo-portal at Community level"  (Article 15(1)). In addition Article 15(2) of the Directive requires "Member States shall provide access to the services referred to in Article 11(1) through the INSPIRE geo-portal referred to in paragraph 1. Member States may also provide to those services through their own access points."

This Community level geo-portal is the subject of this invitation to tender.

 The geo-portal shall provide the means to search for spatial data sets and spatial data services, and subject to access restrictions, view and download spatial data sets from the EU Member States.

The objective of this procurement is the development of the operational version of the INSPIRE geo-portal and in particular:

1. Design and implement a Web-based geo-portal:

• providing a specific entry point to and offering client access functionality to Inspire network services from the EU Member States with a focus on discovery and view services,
• that goes beyond the traditional SDI (spatial data infrastructure) portal concept (as e.g. implemented in the current geo-portal prototype) and provides users with a user-friendly interface for an enhanced experience allowing them to easily find and access spatial data and services,
• that is modular, scalable and based on open standards and taking into account the benefits of an open source solution,
• that interfaces through open standards with additional services such as registries and thesauri needed for its operation or for enhancing its operation,
• that relies on the relevant institutional and scientific background, is compliant with the technical requirements given in the Inspire Directive and implementing rules (IR) and technical guidance documents and complies with all the system requirements outlined in this tender,
• define the processes for updating (in particular to deploy new network services) and maintaining of the geo-portal, once the contract is finished

2. The implementation of GEMET thesaurus and INSPIRE registries. Examples of these services are registries (e.g. code list registries, coordinate reference system registries), thesauri (GEMET), gazetteers. Target users of the geo-portal cover a wide range of profiles including public authorities, European CIB (Commission, institutions and bodies), citizens and the scientific community. The added value of the INSPIRE geo-portal shall be to provide users with an easy, harmonised and multilingual access to up-to-date and cross-border spatial data sets and services

Both the contract notice for this invitation to tender and the full specifications are publically available. 

The deadline for submission of proposals is 15/10/2010.

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