RT\u00c9 has issued a tender with an estimated value of \u20ac30 million for the provision of technical support services for the RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n
The contract will run for a seven-year period from 2028 onwards.<\/p>\n
The tender states that RT\u00c9 is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified suppliers to provide technology solutions and services to support the continued operation, evolution, and support of RT\u00c9’s video streaming products.<\/p>\n
“This tender is a repeat tender and these services and\/or products have been purchased previously under other contracts,” the document states.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for RT\u00c9 said its investment in the RT\u00c9 Player has seen it go from strength-to-strength in recent years.<\/p>\n
“RT\u00c9 has a contract with Fincons Group until the end of 2027 for the vital provision and support of the core video backend systems for RT\u00c9 Player, as well as the creation, maintenance, and evolution the RT\u00c9 Player applications,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“These services have enabled continuous product improvements and major performance gains.<\/p>\n
“RT\u00c9 is now seeking to move forward with a procurement process for equivalent services from January 2028 onwards, for a seven-year term.<\/p>\n
“This process is part of RT\u00c9’s roadmap for the continuous development of RT\u00c9 Player. Under this tender we will work with the successful vendor to deliver important enhancements and new functionality,” he added.<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 said last year was another record year for the RT\u00c9 Player which recorded a new all-time high of 155 million streams, representing year-on-year growth of 9%.<\/p>\n
“As outlined in RT\u00c9\u2019s New Direction strategy, consistent with evolving audience needs, our ambition is that RT\u00c9 Player will continue its evolution to be a locally relevant, world-class, streaming experience that is fast, increasingly personalised, and uniquely Irish – combining live broadcast reliability with deep on-demand discovery and curation, offering audiences more than 7000+ hours of content,” RT\u00c9 said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 has issued a tender with an estimated value of \u20ac30 million for the provision of technical support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-328877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}