Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases listed below
- The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason
- absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation
The Contracting Authority has developed a large professional environment with high competence in the use of Azimap technology, and it has a number of self-developed GIS systems based on Azimap technology. A decision has therefore been made to continue with this technology in Kildare County Council.
Azimap technology is embedded in different council departments and supports a myriad of council functions. Several of these systems are closely integrated with the County Council’s other ICT infrastructure. For example:
— self-developed systems for the technical planning department, fully integrated with the Iplan system.
— applications to support housing.
— full management system for unauthorised developments and planning applications, from data capture, to decisions, letter generation and analysis,
— GIS application generator, essential for the delivery of environmental, infrastructural, and development management integrated applications.
— a number of automated systems for, amongst other things, map delivery, data acquisition, mobile GIS, GIS analysis, report generation and administrative systems.
The above-mentioned systems are currently in use in Kildare County Council.
Mallon Technology is the only supplier of Azimap software and, subsequently, the only supplier who can satisfy Kildare County Council’s need and requirements in this area. The objective of this ex ante voluntary notice is to inform the market of the intention to enter into a contract with Mallon Technology. This is pursuant to the public procurement regulations Article 32 2(b)(ii)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement
: yes