Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-05-12
Buyer: Malta Information Technology Agency MITA
Country: MT
Region: MALTA
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 48000000
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to announce that the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) will be publishing a Call for Tender (CfT) for the procurement of an on-premises private cloud enabling infrastructure and software in Q3 2017. The procurement is partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF; covering the capital costs and implementation services) with an estimated total value of EUR 9,5 million excluding VAT (the cost model will be based on the purchase of assets, hardware and software, and not pay per use).
MITA will be seeking the implementation, support and operation of a hyper-converged infrastructure, including management software that enables a set of baseline xAAS building blocks.
The hyper-converged stack (potentially spread across two geographically dispersed sites) may initially include compute and store elements of a sizeable order (e.g. 500+ cores, 10TB RAM and 1PB storage), with the ability to scale as required. As a minimum, the solution will be expected to support current and future mainstream compute, store, network, hypervisor and operating environments.
The relevant elements need to be fully licensed as part of the solution and included in the capital cost.
The proposed solutions where the primary vendor can supply the majority of mandatory components (both hardware and software) will be rewarded accordingly.
The Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) is the central driver of Government's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) policy, programmes and initiatives in Malta. MITA's role is to deliver and implement the assigned programmes as set out in the Digital Malta National ICT Strategy 2014 — 2020, and as directed by the Minister for Competitiveness and Digital, Maritime and Services Economy from time to time. MITA manages the implementation of IT programmes in Government to enhance public service delivery and provides the infrastructure needed to execute ICT services to Government. MITA is also responsible to propagate further use of ICT in society and economy and to promote and deliver programmes to enhance ICT education and the use of ICT as a learning tool. Economic operators interested in participating in the Department of Contract's procurement initiatives are reminded on the need to register for free in the Electronic Public Procurement System (EPPS) — www.etenders.gov.mt. Economic operators are encouraged to ensure that they are actively registered with the EPPS so as to avoid difficulties or unnecessary delays when responding to public procurement calls. Economic operators may also configure email notifications advising them when tenders issued by a particular Contracting Authority, or in respect of a particular CPV code is published.. . Economic operators can also peruse the FAQ files available on the EPPS website — https://www.etenders.gov.mt/epps/cft/downloadInfoItem.do?documentId=2552286 to seek more information on how to register to the EPPS..