Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-05-09
Buyer: Ríkiskaup
Country: IS
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 48151000 | 48211000

Technical requirements: Ríkiskaup / Central Public Procurement on behalf of the Purchaser invites information from a prospective bidder on a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) as further specified in this Request For Information (RFI). This RFI is for: A Cloud Management Platform for the Purchaser and affiliated users.
The purpose of the RFI is to gather information on suitable systems for the Purchaser to be able to define a successful Request for Tender in the coming months.
The Department of Public Management and Reform under the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs is tasked with aligning IT/ICT matters within the Icelandic Public Sector.
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs is looking for a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) which will be a self-service portal to chosen Cloud Service Providers (CSP) for the Icelandic Ministries and Institutions. The CSPs can be both public and private. The CMP can be either hosted or an on-premises solution. It should be a management platform of a hybrid- and multicloud environment, used for operations and development.
The focus of this RFI is on the management of the cloud resource lifecycle, i.e. functionality that cover provisioning, orchestration and service requests. Other functionality categories are also of interest but are not the focus of this RFI, such as monitoring and analytics, inventory, billing, resource optimization and security. These functionalities could be part of the current requested CMP or part of other CMPs complimenting the focus of this RFI.
The Icelandic Ministries and Institutions are comprised of around 160 organizations of varied sizes and IT capabilities. Many have IT capability and will have the need to use a CMP to directly operate and develop systems. Multitenancy is necessary and strict domain separation must be guaranteed.
A high-level Architecture Vision is depicted on the accompanying drawing “RFI - The Icelandic State's Cloud Environment Architecture Vision 1.0.pdf”, please see URL below to download.
We are looking for a multicloud capable CMP supporting multitenancy and mainstream IaaS, CaaS and PaaS services, with a robust roadmap for implementation of future mainstream Cloud services. It should be future proof, minimizing the likelihood of provider lock-ins, which also applies to the CMP.
These include traditional systems operations and development, but also as target for DevOps toolchains and processes. Ministries / Institutions need limited general administration authority but full administration authority over own domain within and through CMP. They also need operational and financial reporting of domain usage.
A Procurement Center needs to be able to configure the CSP / service / cost catalogues as well as get statistical usage reports of CSPs / services. An ICT Governance entity needs monitoring, reporting and compliance review capability. An ICT Cloud Center of Excellence needs central access for operating the CMP, for overall optimization and monitoring of Cloud services, and for the ability to support Institutions or for being their representatives. An Accounting and Billing Center needs reporting and billing capabilities as well as integration of financial information into the States financial systems. An ICT Security Governance entity needs security reporting and monitoring capability as well as central access to security solutions setups for security compliance reviews.
Prospective bidders are asked to answer the following questions and, if requested by the Purchaser, conduct a demonstration of the CMP and its capabilities relative to the described requirements, questions and additional supportive questions which are to be found in the downloadable file “RFI CMP 1.2 – Questions.pdf”, please see URL below to download.
b. Testimonial of and referral to a current CMP user with similar requirements and operating environment;
c. System environment, architecture, programming environment, database support. Is the system designed using open standards;
e. The size of the installation base, i.e. number of organizations using the system and size of those installs in number of users;
f. Please provide a description of all currently supp. services as well as a roadmap for future supported services;