I_HeERO Newsletter December 2016

MEMBER STATES UPDATE
eCall Implementation in Cyprus
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by Michalis Michael
Ministry of Transports, Communications and Works
The tender documents were completed by the beginning of March 2017 and the tender was published on
10 March, 2016. The final date for the submission of the tenders, through the Cyprus government online
procurement system (www.eprocurement.gov.cy), was 20 May 2016. The evaluation of the tenders was
completed by the beginning of September 2016, and immediately the results were notified to the tenderers.
After the notification of results, two challenges were submitted to the Tender Review Authority, and, as
a result, the contract award procedure was suspended until the challenges are examined. The Tender Review
Authority is expected to finish the examination of the challenges by the beginning of February 2017.
As a consequence, the contract for the PSAP upgrade is expected to take place by the end of March 2017.
The upgrade is expected to finish by June 2017. Conformance and performance tests are expected to be
carried out in July 2017. The tender for the conformance and performance testing is expected to be published
in February 2017, while contract award is expected to be concluded by April 2017.
In regards of Activity 2, access was granted to the PRODROMOS Project Database and currently a study is
conducted on how to use the database in conjunction with eCall Dangerous Goods. The end the result of
the study will be a blueprint for the implementation of eCall DGV in Cyprus.
Concerning Activity 4, a series of site surveys were conducted at the Stage 1 (Police) and Stage 2 (Fire Service,
Ambulance Service) PSAPs in order to determine the existing technological level of each PSAP. Given
the fact that two of the three PSAPs have no IT infrastructure (Police and Fire Service), any implementation
of the proposed data integration protocol between PSAPs is considered premature and only a reference
design proposal shall be made. As part of the Police PSAP upgrade, a connection to the local EUCARIS
database was investigated. The investigation has shown that a new web service needs to be set up on the
EUCARIS side in order to facilitate the automated exchange of information with the eCall PASP. The requirements
for the exchange of information between PSAP and EUCARIS are to be included in the upcoming
EUCARIS upgrade.
As part of the projects’ dissemination activities, a presentation regarding eCall and I_HeERO was made
during the 4th Cyprus Sustainable Mobility and Intelligent Transport Conference. Furthermore an eCall
and “112” workshop took place 27 October 2016, giving the opportunity to raise awareness about eCall
and I_HeERO in Cyprus.
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