Under section 17 of the Act, the Contracting Authority is obliged to publish and place on sale copies of Irish Standards. In addition, through its membership of international and European standardisation organisations, the Contracting Authority is entitled to sell standards according to the rules of those organisations. Since 2009, the Contracting Authority has outsourced the largest part of its sales function to an external provider. The Contracting Authority wishes to put these services out to tender once more and therefore hereby invites experienced operators to submit tenders in respect of the provision of the Services specified in the draft Contract in accordance with this Request for Tenders (RFT).