Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-11-21
Buyer: ARTE GEIE
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72415000: Website hosting services
Estimated value: 2320000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2022-12-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: ARTE is a European cultural TV Channel and platform broadcasting its programmes in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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, behind a CDN/Varnish proxy-cache infrastructure,
—	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 High traffic websites are placed behind a CDN acceleration system.
Websites operate mainly using open source software bricks based on Linux CentOS or containers hosted on kubbernetes.
The chosen operator must be able to manage the website hosting within the agreed constraints relating to security, (access control and logging, network partitioning, patch updates, backups, firewall protection, antivirus, anti-DDoS protection, etc.) responsiveness and scalability required of media sites.
The service provider will have to provide managed systems, for which it will validate and provide the basic elements of the application (operating system "OS" and software bricks "runtimes") and will ensure the supervision, maintenance, technical management and proper functioning within the limits of the application codes delivered by ARTE:
- “IaaS / Infrastructure as a Service" systems, which can also be considered as a set of basic PaaS, allowing the hosting of complex projects.
- Managed Kubbernetes platforms, allowing storage, monitoring and automatic scalability according to application criteria, and containerisation platforms.
On the other hand, the service provider will have to provide unmanaged "IaaS / Infrastructure as a Service" systems, allowing the hosting of complex projects, for which the ARTE teams will ensure the administration and maintenance (physical or virtual "bare" servers).
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.

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Award value: 2320000