A fully managed Automated External Defibrillator (AED) registry service to provide high quality AED location and availability data to the National Ambulance Service (NAS)

(CAD) system. The HSE intends to award this contract under the provisions of Article 32.2(b) of the EU Procurement Directive (2014), as the services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for the following reasons: (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons (iii) the protection

of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights. The procurement of this service is essential to ensure continual quality assurance of AED location data that is provided by ambulance call takers to the public in the event of a