This RFP is for an Internet (or Web-based) system that maintains and provides various levels of access by beacon owners who wish to register their beacons, Administrations who wish to make registration data available to international SAR services, and SAR services that need to access beacon registration data to efficiently process distress alerts.
The responsibilities of the IBRD include maintenance of the database, providing the means to view, enter, modify and query records in the database, ensuring that these records are available, providing automated monitoring of the registration process and generating various reports as required to manage the database. The RFP specifies the functional requirements to support these responsibilities.
An offline or "local" version of the IBRD shall be made available to Administrations who wish to record beacon entries locally and easily upload the data to the IBRD.