Hurriyet Daily News: Ankara collecting offers to outsource pipeline security

Turkey’s defense procurement office, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), has officially opened a bidding process to procure integrated security systems for all oil and natural gas pipelines in the country.

The SSM has invited “Requests for Information (RfIs)” for the bidding. The planned security systems will be for all existing pipelines, others that will be built and management facilities and units on these pipelines, according to the RfI document.

The integrated security systems will protect pipeline facilities from threats like sabotage and theft, the document states.

The bidders should respond to the RfI document no later than Sept. 3, with a dossier that should include a letter of intention, their capabilities in pipeline security, past experiences and a product catalogue.
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