Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-06-25
Buyer: Skatteetaten
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48219000 | 48710000: Backup or recovery software package | 48730000: Security software package | 48731000: File-security software package | 48732000: Data-security software package
Estimated value: 840000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2021-08-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
20210048 Framework Agreement: (1) PaaS and IaaS from one Cloud Platform with Support/Consultancy/Associated Services and/or (2) MS-licences, M365 and Online Subscription with Support/Maintenance/Consultancy/Associated Services
The Norwegian Tax Administration invites tenderers to a contest with negotiations for the sub-areas (sub-contests)
1) Framework agreement for PaaS/IaaS from one cloud platform with support, consultancy, and associated services; and
2) Framework agreement for the procurement of Microsoft licences, M365, and online subscription with support, maintenance, consultancy, and associated services.
For sub-contest 1, the aim is to give the Norwegian Tax Administration access to general cloud services in the form of PaaS and IaaS from one cloud platform, with consultancy and associated services through the establishment of a framework agreement with one tenderer.
The aim of sub-contest 2 is to enter into a framework agreement with one tenderer that will give the contracting authority the right to procure further specified Microsoft licences, M365, and online subscriptions.
Note that there is a connection between the sub-contests in the form that the contracting authority will accept that tenderers, in addition to an ordinary tender, give a discounted tender for sub-area 2 on the condition that the tenderer is awarded the contract for sub-area 1. The contest for sub-area 1 will be decided first.
1) Framework Agreement for PaaS/IaaS from one Cloud Platform with Support, Consultancy, and Associated Services
The Norwegian Tax Administration would like to enter into a framework agreement with one tenderer for the procurement of PaaS and IaaS from one cloud platform, with consultancy and associated services. The framework agreement will not be exclusive for the Norwegian Tax Administration's procurement of PaaS and IaaS and associated services, but the framework agreement will, as a starting point, be used for procurements from the cloud platform that the Norwegian Tax Administration chooses. PaaS and IaaS means all the services that make up the building blocks in the cloud platform's main catalogue of services that, in most cases, come under the definition of PaaS and IaaS. Some of the building blocks could be defined as SaaS or FaaS, but are, however, covered by the definition PaaS and IaaS in this procurement.
The Norwegian Tax Administration's strategic direction means that the agency has decided to have a primary cloud platform for IaaS/PaaS services and be in a multi-cloud with SaaS systems. The choice of the primary cloud platform for PaaS/IaaS services will be made through this procurement.
The agency's cloud strategy states that there will be a step-by-step implementation of a cloud, whilst the existing services will be migrated when there is a positive assessment of cost/benefit. Ongoing campaigns can be equivalently completely or partially moved to the cloud platform after a general assessment of progress, risk and economy.
2) Hybrid cloud. Primary cloud platform is used for part elements of the social assignment, these are to be integrated with the Norwegian Tax Administration's existing operations platform in separate data halls;
3) Migration of all of the Norwegian Tax Administration's IT services that are run on the operations platform in separate data halls. The cloud platform will then be the operations platform for the Norwegian Tax Administration.
The framework agreement must allow for all of these alternatives, which also depend on regulatory limits, security assessments, budget coverage, etc. This uncertainty is also the reason why the maximum value for the framework agreements is high. The actual value of the framework agreement is very uncertain and the estimate is in no way binding for the contracting authority.

Eligibility requirements: Requirements for sub-areas 1 and 2: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement Norwegian Tenderers: Company registration certificate from the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Foreign tenderers: certificate for registration in the register of business enterprises as prescribed in the legislation of the country in which the tenderer is established.

Award value: 840000000