Jails in Laois to get supply of new sports and exercise equipment
The Irish Prison Service has budgeted to spend an estimated €600,000 on exercise machines and sports equipment.
Three locations in Laois are among the IPS facilities where the new equipment is needed. These are the Irish Prison Service College, the Midlands Prison and Portlaoise Prison.
A tender outlines an extensive list that ranges from footballs and boxing gloves to rowing machines and leg press machines. The prison service also requires pool tables.
The list of sport orientated equipment includes:
- Basketball balls, posts and nets
- Volleyball posts/nets and balls
- Badminton posts/nets and shuttles and rackets
- Soccer posts/nets and balls
- Tennis nets,rackets and balls
- Yoga mats
- Heavy duty boxing punch bag
- Boxing mitts focus pads
- Skipping Ropes
- Table Tennis bats and nets
- Medicine balls
- Bibs (coloured tops for team sports)
- Instructional Charts
- Pool Table with cues, chalk balls, tips
- Handball one wall handball, GAA or equivalent.
- Playing cards
- Draughts sets
- Chess sets
The service says in a tender document that exercise equipment must be capable of very heavy-duty intensive training and be of a very robust design offering a long life span.
Items included in the contract invite include:
- Bicycle Ergometer
- Rowing Ergometer
- Treadmill
- Step Machine
- Elliptical Trainer
- Leg Press Machine
- Chest Press
- Lateral Pull Down Machine
- Leg Curl Machine
- Leg Extension Machine
- Low Row Machine
- Pec Deck Machine
- Seated Arm Curl Machine
- Shoulder Press Machine
- Spin Bike Machine
The initial contract which will be delivered in two lots will be for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further
term of 12 months, bringing the total timeframe for the initial contract to 4 years.