Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-11-23
Buyer: ARTE GEIE
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72415000: Website hosting services
Submission deadline: 2018-12-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: ARTE is a European cultural TV Channel that broadcasts programmes 24 hours a day across all media in France, Germany and Europe, always in at least French and German.
ARTE is made up of three entities - the head office based in Strasbourg (named ARTE GEIE), and the two structures responsible for producing and designing the programmes (ARTE France based in Paris and ARTE Deutschland based in Baden-Baden).
As a brief overview, ARTE websites can currently be considered as a set made up of the following applications:
— the main ARTE website, www.arte.tv, including the television catch-up service (replay) on a NodeJS server,
— API to structure content delivery on the various platforms in PHP/Symfony, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch,
Currently, ARTE’s Internet content is watched primarily on the web (50 %), but ARTE is experiencing strong growth in traffic through mobile technology apps (smartphone and tablet) (35 %), smart TVs and other OTT apps. As a whole, 85 % of visitors to its websites are French or German and 12 % come from the rest of Europe. ARTE intends to broaden its audience following the successful launch of its programmes in English, Spanish, Italian and Polish.
Up to 200 ARTE contributors upload content to the various systems. Around 10 different teams, from both within ARTE and externally, undertake the technical projects for the range of platforms under the supervision of ARTE GEIE, ARTE France or ARTE Deutschland.
This represents over 100 production and pre-production servers, 95th percentile bandwidth of around 500 Mb/s and over 70 million requests per day.
The chosen operator must be able to manage the website hosting within the agreed constraints relating to security, responsiveness and scalability required of media sites.
— Well-defined PaaS (Platform as a Service) systems that offer the simple web hosting capabilities of LAMP or similar technology (NodeJS, Go, Python, etc.).
— Managed IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) systems that can also be used as a set of basic PaaS to host complex projects.
The contractor will approve and provide the basic components of the application (Operating System and runtime software bricks) and will oversee, maintain and ensure the technical maintenance and proper functioning of the website within the limits of the application codes supplied by ARTE.
ARTE wishes to benefit from support and guidance in open source technology and “DevOPS” methods that will help scale up the online deployment of its various projects.
Currently, the infrastructure is built using “Ansible” technology. In an initial phase, ARTE would like to migrate its infrastructure and systems in their current state.
At a later date, ARTE would like to go further and redefine its architecture with Docker containers and manage the orchestration (TBC: Terraform, Kubernetes, Swarm, Consul, ...) in order to achieve greater flexibility in its development approval processes and operation in production.

Eligibility requirements: The European Single Procurement Document (ESPD), bidders are invited to use the dedicated service at the following address: https://ec.europa.eu/tools/espd The document to be uploaded on this website is the pre-completed .xml file attached to the tender documents. The completed ESPD has to be attached to the candidates application in .xml and .pdf format. OR (in the event that the bidder does not use the EPSD): (a) a letter of application (the form made available by ARTE GEIE may be used, please note that this document is only available in French and German); (b) a declaration by the bidder (the form made available by ARTE GEIE may be used, please note that this document is only available in French and German), accompanied by the following documents: — an extract from the commercial and companies registry, — if the bidder is in administration, a copy of the judgment or judgments to that effect.
Le Document unique de marché européen (DUME): les candidats sont invités à utiliser le service dédié à l’adresse suivante: https://ec.europa.eu/tools/espd Le document à uploader sur ce service est le fichier .xml joint au dossier de consultation. Le DUME complété devra être joint à la candidature aux formats XML et PDF. OU (dans l’hypothèse où le candidat n’utiliserait pas le DUME): a) une lettre de candidature (le formulaire mis à disposition par ARTE GEIE peut être utilisé); b) une déclaration du candidat (le formulaire mis à disposition par ARTE GEIE peut être utilisé), accompagnée des pièces suivantes: — un extrait du registre du commerce et des sociétés, — si le candidat est en redressement judiciaire, une copie du ou des jugements prononcés à cet effet.
Die ausgefüllte Einheitliche Europäische Eigenerklärung (EEE), die unter folgendem Link zugänglich ist: https://ec.europa.eu/tools/espd Das dort zu importierende Dokument entspricht der den Vergabeunterlagen beigefügte .XML Datei. Die ausgefüllte EEE ist der Bewerbung im Format .xml und .pdf beizufügen. Oder (falls der Bewerber nicht die EEE verwendet): a) Ein Bewerbungsschreiben (das von ARTE GEIE bereitgestellte Formular kann hierfür verwendet werden); b) Eine Erklärung des Einzelbieters (das von ARTE GEIE bereitgestellte Formular kann hierfür verwendet werden) mit folgenden Anlagen: — Auszug aus dem Handels- und Gesellschaftsregister, — bei Bewerbungen von im gerichtlich angeordneten Insolvenz- bzw. Sanierungsverfahren befindlichen Unternehmen Kopien der diesbezüglichen Gerichtsbeschlüsse.