a) Supply of IT equipment:
The “Task I — Hardware” of the Specific technical clauses covers a whole range of hardware and IT components, which the successful tenderer will be required to supply in the frame of new projects’ implementation, maintenance stocks or to replace defective, damaged or obsolete hardware.
Example: Touch screens, TV monitors, speakers, IT components and cabling (power switches, connectors, KVM extenders…), projectors, network devices, servers, computers, media players, RFID equipment (tags, readers, antennas), portable handsets.
b) Supply of IT consumables:
The smooth operation and preventive maintenance of the Parlamentarium and Europa Experience spaces require consequent provision of consumables, which are installed either by the IT team of the Parlamentarium or by maintenance contractors. The “Task II — Consumables” of the Specific technical clauses detail the type of products required for the daily running of the Visitors services.
Example: Projector lamps and filters, mobile handsets batteries, custom-made casing, lanyards, protection foils and earphones.
c) Services:
Upon request from Parliament, the Contractor will be required to provide specific IT services, from onsite installation of equipment to the conception, design and implementation of a new exhibition interactive station.
Based on the specifications provided by Parliament or the concept and feasibility study developed by the architect and media planner, the Contractor shall have the capacities to deliver complex integrated hardware solution, by establishing in particular:
— a price list for the required hardware, software, consumable and maintenance stock,
— a service cost breakdown covering the man/days required for project management, design, engineering, workshop pre-installation of embedded hardware, on-site installation and commissioning and the expert services a project may require (e.g. Watchout configuration, Crestron programming, capacitive touch foil installation…),
— a phased schedule with the milestones and delivery times for the project’s elements within the Contractor’s remit, to be aligned with the overall project schedule,
— the detailed technical planning of a project, e.g. principle schematics, technical input to the fit-out contractor-coordinator’s media station design, user manuals and as-built files.