DANTE Announces Tender for TEIN2 Network Management Services

On 29 November 2004, the European Commission approved Phase 2 of the TEIN2 project. The approval follows the EC's acceptance of the report prepared on the feasibility study conducted under the project's first phase.

Phase 2 will provide a high-speed network for research and education within Asia, and will connect that network to the pan-European infrastructure of GÉANT and the European national research and education networks. 

The tender process has now begun, and DANTE is pleased to announce the publication of the contract notice for network management and support services in the Official Journal of the European Commission. Expressions of interest to participate in this tender are invited up to 26 February 2005, and should be sent to DANTE as per the instructions given in Section II.i.6.

Links to the catalogue data, the full entry in the Offical Journal and to a PDF file of the contract notice are available from the See Also box alongside.