Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-12-21
Buyer: Ministry of information society and administration
Country: MK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72250000: System and support services
Estimated value: 32000000 MKD
Submission deadline: 2022-01-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Subject of this procurement are services for upgrade and maintenance of an IT system. This IT system, i.e. the Second Service Bus of the interoperability platform (hereinafter referred to as MIM2), consists of hardware infrastructure, system and application software.
The procurement should include upgrade of the platform by implementing a communication client node, as well as preventive, reactive and adaptive maintenance of MIM2:
•	Upgrade of MIM2 by implementing a communication client node. According to the current architecture of MIM2, each communication client represents at most one institution/company on the interoperability platform. This means that only one institution/company user of the platform can be identified behind one communication client. This architecture has proven to be limiting and it is necessary to upgrade MIM2 by introducing a communication client node by providing possibility for identification of multiple institutions/companies simultaneously. Namely, the goal to be achieved with the upgrade and the introduction of this new type of communication client is to change the topology of MIM2 from star to snowflake.
Proactive solving of technical and systemic challenges by continuously diagnosing the current situation, i.e. recognizing all possible technical and system problems and solving the same;
Functional maintenance which includes a series of actions of measuring, recording and analysis of relevant parameters and timely undertaking of appropriate measures, in order to ensure optimal and reliable operation of MIM2 and minimize the possibility of failure that would result in unexpected downtime.
Installation and configuration of system patches, testing and upgrade of software versions of the products used in MIM2 as well as necessary configurations of network equipment in order to ensure smooth and safe operation of the platform.
•	Reactive maintenance of MIM2, ie problem solving based on reported incidents, by determining the cause of the problem and solving the same in the shortest possible time. This particularly covers, but is not limited to, technical defects, network outages, hardware failure, software problems, bugs, communication difficulties, malfunction of MIM2 or its components thereof.
Adaptive maintenance includes 4500 working hours for new requests related to the overall MIM2 infrastructure and software.
Support activities for the contracting authority related to the promotion and advancement of the interoperability platform usage.
2.2.1 The Contracting Party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure if it determines that the economic operator, or the person who is a member of the executive or oversight body of said economic operator or who is authorized to represent or adopt decisions or to perform oversight over the economic operator, has been sentenced with an enforceable judgement in the last 5 years on committed crime that involves elements of the following crimes stipulated under the Criminal Code:
2.2.2. The contracting party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure, if an economic operator:
-  has unpaid taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges, except in cases when the economic operator has been permitted to pay taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges by means of deferred payment in compliance with special provisions and performs regular payment thereof;
- has been sentenced with secondary penalty - prohibition for participation in public call procedures, procedures for awarding public procurement contracts and public-private partnership contract;
- has been has been sentenced with secondary penalty – temporary or permanent prohibition to perform a particular activity;

Eligibility requirements: 2.2.1 The Contracting Party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure if it determines that the economic operator, or the person who is a member of the executive or oversight body of said economic operator or who is authorized to represent or adopt decisions or to perform oversight over the economic operator, has been sentenced with an enforceable judgement in the last 5 years on committed crime that involves elements of the following crimes stipulated under the Criminal Code: - participation in criminal organization, - corruption, -tax and payroll tax evasion, -terrorism or criminal acts related to terrorist activities, - money laundering and financing terrorism, and - child labor and human trafficking. 2.2.2. The contracting party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure, if an economic operator: -  has unpaid taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges, except in cases when the economic operator has been permitted to pay taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges by means of deferred payment in compliance with special provisions and performs regular payment thereof; -  undergoes bankruptcy or liquidation proceeding; - has been sentenced with secondary penalty - prohibition for participation in public call procedures, procedures for awarding public procurement contracts and public-private partnership contract; - has been has been sentenced with secondary penalty – temporary or permanent prohibition to perform a particular activity; - has been sentenced with misdemeanor sanction – prohibition to perform profession, activity or duty, or temporary prohibition to perform a particular activity, or - issues false information/data or fails to submit information/data requested by the Contracting Party. 2.2.3 The Contracting Party shall exclude the economic operator from the public procurement procedure if the economic operator is listed under the list of issued negative references under Article 101 paragraph (3) of the Law on Public Procurements by the final deadline for delivery of bids or participation requests. 2.2.4 The Contracting Party shall exclude the economic operator from the public procurement procedure in cases when the exclusion condition is enlisted under the tender documentation: a) if the contracting party has valid reasons to determine that the economic operator has signed contracts with other economic operator with purpose or effect to distort competition. The determination of the contracting party stipulated under this item shall be considered valid if the Commission for Protection of Competition notifies the contracting party that it will initiate a misdemeanor procedure within a deadline of 15 days, based on notice lodged by the contracting party; b) if the economic operator has demonstrated significant or constant shortcomings in meeting key duties in previous public procurement contracts or previous concession and public-private partnership contracts signed with said contracting party, which, in turn, resulted in unilateral contract termination, damage claims or undertaking of other similar sanctions by the contracting party; c) if the economic operator exercises illegal influence over the contracting party’s decision or for acquisition of confidential information that would give said economic operator illegal advantage in the public procurement procedure.

Award value: 32000000