Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-07
Buyer: Opplysningsvesenets Fond on behalf of Den norske kirke v/Kirkepartner IKT AS
Country: NO
Region: NORGE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 35 NOK
Submission deadline: 2016-08-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Den norske kirke is being reorganised. From 2017 the part that is currently managed through the government and government resources, will be completely transferred to a new legal subject, Den norsk kirke. Kirkemøte will be the top body for managing these resources. The rest of the resources (approx. 2/3) will be controlled by the respective church councils. There will be a further internal process to look at a more appropriate organisation. The ICT commitment in Dnk is an important means in the ongoing reorganisation work. There is a great need for coordinated and dynamic management of the ICT development, so that it supports basic needs in the organisation as regards dialogue with members and volunteers and provides gains through financial savings and increased quality.
Central management bodies have been established for ICT management and development. In the coming years it will be important to renew the strategy in accordance with experience, new requirements and developments. In this work is being done with budget procedures, responsibilities, management competence, development of Business Case, portfolio, programme and project management and extracting gains.
The management area can also include assistance with the implementation of ICT projects, such as project and test management. Kirkepartner IKT is growing and several church councils are customers and moving their ICT operations to Kirkepartner IKT. This work will involve a need for project management for the migration.
A joint general target picture and architecture was established in the strategy and plans from 2009 and 2011, which shows the connection between the work processes included in the church's work and the IT systems that shall support them. We are now further into the execution and have several joint systems in place. In the future it will be natural to look at the need for adjustments and clarification of the system landscape. Particularly with regards to self-service, automation and security. System architecture, integration and security are important competence areas.
Den norske kirke has established its own internal provider of ICT services, Kirkepartner IKT AS. This company is managed through Kirkepartner AS, which is owned by the units in Den norske kirke, who receive services provided by the ICT company. (Extended self-management model.) The ICT company has management contracts with its customers. There are 2 customer groups, system owners for the joint systems and those who get their ICT services provided through the company. The establishment of the management regime (ITIL-requirement) and SLA are important areas of competence.
The company provides basic operational services, first line help desk and operates several of the joint trade systems that have been developed. According to the plan, they shall also be responsible for the operation of the established central systems that are currently operated by different third party suppliers. (Member register and church building database). Kirkepartner IKT also enters into framework agreements on behalf of its shareholders with third party providers for local technical infrastructure, lines and end equipment.
An important area is authentication and access control. We currently use Forefront Identity Manager from Microsoft. Efficient user management and role rights management is an important area. The same applies for the technical infrastructure, operation and strategic sourcing.
We need development competence in all the areas that have joint systems for Den norske kirke. We currently have management contracts with the suppliers who have delivered the joint systems. These will run for 1 year at a time and we will continually assess the extent of them. The management contracts are not included in this contract.
In addition to management contracts, we would like, via this notice, to have framework agreements with selected tenderers in order to make changes and further develop existing systems. The development assignments will also be connected to work on integrations and any integration tool or equivalent. In a future system landscape there will be a need to use an ETL tool (Extract Transformer and Load) or equivalent to utilize the data we have for reports and analysis.
We need developer competence in the joint systems that we have, as well as in architecture, data warehouse, integration and testing competence.

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Award value: 35