View source for Bella-Tender-004 - BELLA-T Optical Equipment

=== '''The BELLA-T Project''' ===
<p style="text-align: justify">BELLA-T is a project funded by the European Commission under Contract LA/2016/376-534 aiming at achieving&nbsp;a&nbsp;long-term&nbsp;and&nbsp;significant&nbsp;improvement&nbsp;of&nbsp;the academic South&nbsp;American&nbsp;network, enabling the Latin American Research and Education Regional Network, RedCLARA&nbsp;to&nbsp;guarantee&nbsp;full&nbsp;and&nbsp;equal&nbsp;access&nbsp;by&nbsp;LA&nbsp;NRENs&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;capacity of the direct&nbsp;Europe-Latin&nbsp;America&nbsp;submarine&nbsp;cable which is being procured through the BELLA-S Project, both part of the BELLA Programme.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify">This&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;realised&nbsp;by&nbsp;upgrading&nbsp;RedCLARA's&nbsp;optical&nbsp;infrastructure&nbsp;in&nbsp;South&nbsp;America,&nbsp;which&nbsp;will&nbsp;allow&nbsp;the&nbsp;deployment&nbsp;of&nbsp;an&nbsp;optical&nbsp;network, generating&nbsp;synergies&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;NRENs&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;region,&nbsp;through&nbsp;increased&nbsp;capillarity&nbsp;and&nbsp;effectiveness.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The result will be a secure resilient&nbsp;optical&nbsp;backbone&nbsp;ready&nbsp;to&nbsp;support&nbsp;100&nbsp;Gbps&nbsp;wavelengths&nbsp;in&nbsp;South&nbsp;America&nbsp;which&nbsp;will&nbsp;become&nbsp;RedCLARA’s main&nbsp;regional&nbsp;infrastructure&nbsp;for&nbsp;research, education,&nbsp;innovation&nbsp;and&nbsp;public&nbsp;service&nbsp;in&nbsp;Latin&nbsp;America.</p>
=== <span class="mw-headline" id="About_this_Tender">'''About this Tender'''</span> ===

The acquisition of A DWDM solution to light spectrum of the lots listed below:

Lot1. South

a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Buenos Aires (Argentina) to Santiago 1 (Chile)

b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Santiago 1 (Chile) –Santiago 2 (Chile)

c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortaleza 1 (Brazil) – Fortaleza 2 (Brazil),

d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortaleza 2 (Brazil) – Fortaleza 3 (Brazil)



Lot 2.&nbsp; North

a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tulcán (Ecuador) to Ipiales (Colombia).

b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortaleza 2 (Brazil) – Barranquilla 1 (Colombia).

c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Barranquilla 2 (Brazil) – Barranquilla 1 (Colombia).

The Tender will be conducted using a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation according to EU Directive&nbsp;on public&nbsp;procurement&nbsp;and&nbsp;repealing&nbsp;Directive&nbsp;2004/24/EC:

[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32014L0024 <u>http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32014L0024</u>]

In consideration to several requests from different companies and the current situation with COVID-19, the committee has decided to extend the submission date for the proposal&nbsp; to May&nbsp; 5<sup>th</sup>, 2020

Publication Date:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mar 11th ,&nbsp; 2020

Closing Date:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; May&nbsp; 5th , 2020&nbsp; at 23:00 UTC (GMT)

Contracting Authorities:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RedCLARA:&nbsp; Cooperacion Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas, [http://www.redclara.net [1]]

=== <span class="mw-headline" id="How_to_participate">'''How to participate'''</span> ===

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Participation is open to any company providing telecommunications infrastructure, be this its primary business or not.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To participate, please register by sending an e-mail to:&nbsp;[mailto:bella.tender@redclara.net bella.tender@redclara.net]

<span style="font-size:larger">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Once you are registered you will be able to download the documents and follow the negotiation procedure through the</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;[https://bella-tender.redclara.net/wiki/bellat004tenderofopticalequipment/index.php/BELLA-T-004_Tender_Process_Webpage BELLA-T-004 Tender Process Webpage]</span>



== '''<span style="font-size:larger">Award Notice for lot 1: [https://bella-tender.redclara.net/wiki/bellat004tenderofopticalequipment/public/Award_Optical_Equipment.pdf pdf document&nbsp;]</span>''' ==

'''<span style="font-size:larger">Lot 2 were declared void</span>'''