Emergency accommodation bid for Czech government civil protection

This is a Czech government civil-protection procurement for emergency accommodation units. Tanax Containers submitted its bid for an accommodation package built to the contracting authority's specification. The end use is shelter capacity that civil protection can deploy when regional fire and rescue operations centres declare a state of danger, a state of emergency, or any of the Czech crisis states. The bid is currently in evaluation. This page documents the technical proposal Tanax put on the table, not a completed delivery.

External dimensions follow the contracting authority's 6058 x 2438 x 2800 mm baseline, comparable to the office and living family already in serial production at Bánovce. The frame is hot-rolled steel welded to EXC2 with ISO 1CC corner castings retained so units can be lifted and trucked under standard intermodal kit. Roof and walls are PIR sandwich panels rated EI30. Floor is marine plywood on a hot-rolled cross-member assembly. Doors are EPDM-sealed steel with double cam locks; windows are double-glazed with internal roller shutters where the buyer's drawing requires them.

Welding is MAG 135 to EN ISO 9606. Robotic welding is handled by 2x Daihen FD-V8L on a 14 m track and a Daihen FD-B6L 6-axis. Manual joints are handled by Kemppi MIG / MAG. Plate is prepared on the TRUMPF TruLaser 3040 (3.2 kW, max 20 mm) and the plasma table (3 to 15 mm).

The internal climate package is sized for emergency-accommodation duty rather than long-stay housing: electric convector heating, low-voltage lighting on a residual-current device, single 16 A circuit per cell, an optional 2.6 kW AC unit identical to the one Tanax fits to its staff-accommodation cells. The PIR shell holds the heat that the convector puts in, which is the right physics for a unit that may sit cold for months between activations and then be brought up to temperature inside an hour.

EI30 fire resistance is the load-bearing technical decision in the bid. Civil protection accommodation is typically pitched in dense clusters on hardstanding or in a school playground, and the buyer's specification reflects standard Czech fire and rescue practice of separating cells with a fire interval that the panel itself satisfies, rather than relying on spacing alone. PIR sandwich at the right core thickness clears EI30 without adding a separate gypsum lining, which keeps the internal floor area usable and the fit-out time short.

RAL 5010 was prescribed by the buyer. It reads cleanly under both daylight and the orange lighting masts that rescue units bring to night deployments, and it is the same blue used across a wider fleet of Czech civil-protection assets.

Bid submitted, evaluation ongoing at the time of writing. Award, if it lands, would be a dedicated Czech civil-protection delivery in the Tanax portfolio, alongside the existing Czech accommodation work and the wider Czech export pipeline. The proposal carries the same QA dossier and traceability the line already runs for Slovak government defense work under a multi-year framework, so the buyer's QA review can be served from production records that are already on the shelf.