Portugal’s Listening to the Earth under the Atlantic (LEA) team, which includes the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), and Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), released a detailed document presenting a management concept to facilitate the procurement process for a telecom submarine cable system with the integration of seismic and environmental detection sensors under the principles established by JTF SMART Cables. It presents a general procedure to conciliate both a Request for Tender for a usual telecom submarine cable system and a Request for Tender for CAM, an in-development SMART Cable.

The complete document can be found here.