TALQ updates free street-lighting tender template to fifth edition

The TALQ Consortium has released an updated fifth edition of its free Tender Template for street lighting, timed ahead of November’s Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. The new version adds technical descriptions for two TALQ Zhaga DALI D4i profiles and is available in seven languages for cities and local governments.

Why it matters: - Cities and local governments often face a one-time, highly technical procurement process when buying or replacing street-lighting systems. - The updated TALQ Tender Template is meant to make that process easier while supporting open, interoperable and future-ready smart lighting deployments. - The free template can also help reduce the risk of vendor lock-in in multi-supplier projects.

What happened: - The TALQ Consortium published the 5th updated version of its TALQ Tender Template for street lighting. - The new edition is available in seven languages. - The release comes ahead of the Smart City Expo World Congress in November in Barcelona. - The document is free to download in editable formats from the consortium’s website.

The details: - The 5th edition adds technical descriptions for two new TALQ Zhaga DALI D4i profiles. - Those profiles are designed to increase interoperability between systems. - The profiles are meant to support lossless communication across the public lighting network. - The template is based on experience from real street-lighting procurement and deployments in major cities worldwide. - The document is built to help cities, municipalities, utilities, operators and consultants prepare tenders with less effort and greater confidence that key requirements are covered. - The template incorporates definitions and know-how developed with the DALI Alliance and the Zhaga Consortium. - The goal is to standardize data flows across street-lighting systems. - The template is also intended to help lighting manufacturers participate in tenders across multiple countries more easily. - The 5th edition groups technical requirements and functional use cases into five main profiles: Lighting Profile, Cabinet Control Profile, Asset Management Profile, DALI D4i Luminaire TALQ Zhaga Profile, and DALI D4i Sensors TALQ Zhaga Profile. - The document includes sample wording to support a complete tender specification that can be used internationally. - The template is currently available in English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch and Romanian. - A Chinese version is expected soon.

Between the lines: - TALQ is positioning the template as a practical shortcut for procurement teams that may only write this type of tender once in their careers. - The focus on open standards reflects a broader smart-city push toward systems that can work across suppliers and remain usable over time. - The update also reinforces TALQ’s role as a standards body trying to shape how cities specify smart lighting projects before purchasing decisions are locked in.

What's next: - TALQ plans to publish an updated Chinese-language version soon. - The consortium will also use the Barcelona smart-city conference as a near-term showcase for the updated template. - Cities and procurement teams can download and use the revised document now for upcoming street-lighting tenders.

The bottom line: - TALQ’s fifth-edition tender template gives cities a free, multilingual procurement tool aimed at making smart street-lighting contracts simpler, more interoperable and easier to specify.