Market Soundings for refurbishment of (8) Studio Control Room Galleries - Not a call for competition

Description

The Houses of the Oireachtas Broadcasting Unit is considering tendering for replacement of the Control Room infrastructure which is predominantly end of life and would like to consult with the market on the latest technologies, products, and solutions available to meet this business requirement. The Control Rooms contain the robotic controllers, vision mixers, caption generators, monitoring, sound desks and associated infrastructure required to broadcast all public meetings in the Houses of the Oireachtas. As well as suggestions for a “like for like” replacement, this procedure is aiming to identify where improvements, benefits and cost efficiencies can be applied to the existing workflows. Current workflows are primarily manual, with keyboard input by operators required to add text to captions and points of interest logged against video. The manual nature of the processes leads to duplication of effort, potential of inaccurate information being used and inherent delays in the provision of the information on screen.