The Netherlands Ministry of Defence (NLMOD) is considering to purchase a Maritime Data Environment for the Royal Netherlands Navy, but to do that effeciently, needs more information first and thus invites potential suppliers to respond to this Request for Information (RFI) The MDE is a facility, composed of hardware, software and measures, that makes all data that are relevant to the maritime domain, available, accessible, reliable and trustworthy for all actors who could benefit from them and who are authorized to use them, under all circumstances. These circumstances determine the capabilities of the actors, and are a consequence of the characteristics of the specific mission, the required autonomy, environmental factors, the availability of equipment as determined by size-weight-power-restrictions, etc. Please find the RFI document below.

The Netherlands Ministry of Defence (NLMOD) is considering to purchase a Maritime Data Environment for the Royal Netherlands Navy, but to do that effeciently, needs more information first and thus invites potential suppliers to respond to this Request for Information (RFI) The MDE is a facility, composed of hardware, software and measures, that makes all data that are relevant to the maritime domain, available, accessible, reliable and trustworthy for all actors who could benefit from them and who are authorized to use them, under all circumstances. These circumstances determine the capabilities of the actors, and are a consequence of the characteristics of the specific mission, the required autonomy, environmental factors, the availability of equipment as determined by size-weight-power-restrictions, etc. Please find the RFI document below.