Request for Tender for the Incorporation of Biometrics in the Irish Passport. The purpose of this procurement is to select a contractor to analyse requirements, design, implement and support, as appropriate, the incorporation of Biometrics in the Irish Passport for the Department of Foreign Affairs. The contractor will be required to take responsibility for all aspects of the implementation, including the specification and supply of the microchip; the specification, supply, installation and configuration of the relevant software and any required hardware necessary to run the system with the exception of client/desktop PCs. It is a requirement of the contract that production of biometrics on passports would commence before mid-October 2005. The Department of Foreign Affairs has decided to issue biometric passports in accordance with the technical standards adopted by the ICAO of May 2003. In practice, this should ensure that our passports comply with the requirements of the US Visa Waiver Programme. Standardised, digitally-stored facial images will be used as the biometric identifier. The technology must be globally interoperable in the use of machine-assisted identity verification. The system should be capable of: Using a contactless IC chip (specifications as per the ICAO Biometrics Deployment Technical Report) on a polycarbonate page (currently used in Irish passports); Generating a biometric image for insertion in the chip from photographs supplied by passport applicants; Copying the data onto the chip; Protecting and Authenticating the data on the chip; Reading the biometrics from the chip. All of the above should comply with the ICAO Biometrics Deployment Technical Report which provides guidelines for the introduction and deployment of biometrics with respect to Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTD), see: http://www.icao.int/mrtd/download/documents/ Biometrics%20deployment%20of%20Machine%20Readable%20Travel%20 Documents%202004.pdf. The contract should be completed as quickly as possible. It will be a condition of the contract that the successful bidder carry out a proof of concept, to ensure that the photographs supplied by applicants will generate biometric images of sufficient quality, before proceeding to the production stage and that at least a pilot production of biometric passports be implemented by mid-October 2005. The initial phase of this restricted procedure is to establish a list of between 3 and 5 suitable candidates to whom the full Request for Tender document will then issue. This contract notice does not constitute a detailed or final specification of requirements for the project. The information contained in this notice is supplied so as to provide interested parties with sufficient information to prepare their response document for the pre-qualification stage. The information contained herein will be superseded by the detailed requirements of the Request for Tender referred to above which will be issued in due course to the candidates selected from the pre-qualification stage. Please note that no further documentation or further information will issue to candidates entering the first pre-qualification round of this restricted tendering procedure. Candidates should frame their responses in the pre-qualification round on the information requested in this contract notice.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2005-01-28.
The procurement was published on 2004-12-21.
Contract notice (2004-12-16) Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Computer and related services
Full text:
Request for Tender for the Incorporation of Biometrics in the Irish Passport. The purpose of this procurement is to select a contractor to analyse requirements, design, implement and support, as appropriate, the incorporation of Biometrics in the Irish Passport for the Department of Foreign Affairs. The contractor will be required to take responsibility for all aspects of the implementation, including the specification and supply of the microchip; the specification, supply, installation and configuration of the relevant software and any required hardware necessary to run the system with the exception of client/desktop PCs. It is a requirement of the contract that production of biometrics on passports would commence before mid-October 2005. The Department of Foreign Affairs has decided to issue biometric passports in accordance with the technical standards adopted by the ICAO of May 2003. In practice, this should ensure that our passports comply with the requirements of the US Visa Waiver Programme. Standardised, digitally-stored facial images will be used as the biometric identifier. The technology must be globally interoperable in the use of machine-assisted identity verification. The system should be capable of: Using a contactless IC chip (specifications as per the ICAO Biometrics Deployment Technical Report) on a polycarbonate page (currently used in Irish passports); Generating a biometric image for insertion in the chip from photographs supplied by passport applicants; Copying the data onto the chip; Protecting and Authenticating the data on the chip; Reading the biometrics from the chip. All of the above should comply with the ICAO Biometrics Deployment Technical Report which provides guidelines for the introduction and deployment of biometrics with respect to Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTD), see: http://www.icao.int/mrtd/download/documents/ Biometrics%20deployment%20of%20Machine%20Readable%20Travel%20 Documents%202004.pdf. The contract should be completed as quickly as possible. It will be a condition of the contract that the successful bidder carry out a proof of concept, to ensure that the photographs supplied by applicants will generate biometric images of sufficient quality, before proceeding to the production stage and that at least a pilot production of biometric passports be implemented by mid-October 2005. The initial phase of this restricted procedure is to establish a list of between 3 and 5 suitable candidates to whom the full Request for Tender document will then issue. This contract notice does not constitute a detailed or final specification of requirements for the project. The information contained in this notice is supplied so as to provide interested parties with sufficient information to prepare their response document for the pre-qualification stage. The information contained herein will be superseded by the detailed requirements of the Request for Tender referred to above which will be issued in due course to the candidates selected from the pre-qualification stage. Please note that no further documentation or further information will issue to candidates entering the first pre-qualification round of this restricted tendering procedure. Candidates should frame their responses in the pre-qualification round on the information requested in this contract notice.
Request for Tender for the Incorporation of Biometrics in the Irish Passport. The purpose of this procurement is to select a contractor to analyse requirements, design, implement and support, as appropriate, the incorporation of Biometrics in the Irish Passport for the Department of Foreign Affairs. The contractor will be required to take responsibility for all aspects of the implementation, including the specification and supply of the microchip; the specification, supply, installation and configuration of the relevant software and any required hardware necessary to run the system with the exception of client/desktop PCs. It is a requirement of the contract that production of biometrics on passports would commence before mid-October 2005. The Department of Foreign Affairs has decided to issue biometric passports in accordance with the technical standards adopted by the ICAO of May 2003. In practice, this should ensure that our passports comply with the requirements of the US Visa Waiver Programme. Standardised, digitally-stored facial images will be used as the biometric identifier. The technology must be globally interoperable in the use of machine-assisted identity verification. The system should be capable of: Using a contactless IC chip (specifications as per the ICAO Biometrics Deployment Technical Report) on a polycarbonate page (currently used in Irish passports); Generating a biometric image for insertion in the chip from photographs supplied by passport applicants; Copying the data onto the chip; Protecting and Authenticating the data on the chip; Reading the biometrics from the chip. All of the above should comply with the ICAO Biometrics Deployment Technical Report which provides guidelines for the introduction and deployment of biometrics with respect to Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTD), see: http://www.icao.int/mrtd/download/documents/ Biometrics%20deployment%20of%20Machine%20Readable%20Travel%20 Documents%202004.pdf. The contract should be completed as quickly as possible. It will be a condition of the contract that the successful bidder carry out a proof of concept, to ensure that the photographs supplied by applicants will generate biometric images of sufficient quality, before proceeding to the production stage and that at least a pilot production of biometric passports be implemented by mid-October 2005. The initial phase of this restricted procedure is to establish a list of between 3 and 5 suitable candidates to whom the full Request for Tender document will then issue. This contract notice does not constitute a detailed or final specification of requirements for the project. The information contained in this notice is supplied so as to provide interested parties with sufficient information to prepare their response document for the pre-qualification stage. The information contained herein will be superseded by the detailed requirements of the Request for Tender referred to above which will be issued in due course to the candidates selected from the pre-qualification stage. Please note that no further documentation or further information will issue to candidates entering the first pre-qualification round of this restricted tendering procedure. Candidates should frame their responses in the pre-qualification round on the information requested in this contract notice.
Place of performance Dublin
🏙️ Notice metadata
Document type: Invitation to tender
Nature of contract: Service contract
Regulation: European Communities, with participation by GATT countries
Original language: English 🗣️
Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Award criteria
The most economic tender
Type of bid: Global tender
Awarding authority type: Central government
Contracting authority Identity
Awarding authority name: Department of Foreign Affairs
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Reference Dates
Publication date: 2004-12-21 📅
Date received: 2004-12-16 📅
Date dispatched: 2004-12-16 📅
Submission deadline: 2005-01-28 📅
Identifiers
Notice number (legacy): 214033-2004
OJ-S issue: 248/2004