Accutrace (Zen) & EU Tender ValueZen: Thanks for clearing up the technical aspect.
You are mentioning in your post that Ireland is using 49 GC-MS equipped vehicles to run the program.
I wonder if we can use this number to extrapolate the potential value of the EU tender ... ???
Ireland’s population: ~4.6 Mil
U.K. population: 64.4 Mil
EU population: 508 Mil.
Excluding U.K. & Ireland: 439 Mil
Let's use $75,000 operating cost per vehicle per year based on one employee per vehicle. Reasonable?
This would put the Irish
monitoring portion cost of the Irish program at $3,675,000.
With Ireland representing roughly 1% of the EU population (excluding the U.K.), this would put the EU contract value into the $350 Mil range
excluding injection cost (labour + equipment) and the actual cost of the marker.
Using this number, the program would cost around 10% of the roughly $4 Bil in annual tax losses due to fuel adulteration / smuggling.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-26/fuel-smugglers-costing-europe-more-than-4-billion-in-lost-taxes Reasonable estimate?