Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-04-05
Region: NL329
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 1807000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-05-13
Award criteria: quality
EU fund: eu-funds

Technical requirements: GÉANT is a not-for profit organisation, acting as central purchasing body for the benefit of its members and those members. It endeavours to aggregate demand through a European open procurement procedure and aims to put in place Framework Agreements for cloud (IaaS+) services, connecting these to the Pan European Research and Education IT ecosystems and to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
The purpose of the procurement initiative is to bridge the demand and supply sides for Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service (IaaS+). It is being conducted as an Open Procedure in accordance with the Dutch Public Procurement Act (Aanbestedingswet 2012, revised 1 July 2016. The open procedure is divided in 39 lots. Each lot represents 1 Country per which several Framework Agreements can be awarded. The combined value of services over the lifespan of the Frameworks Agreements over all lots is estimated at EUR 1807000000. In some countries a bank guarantee may be required to adhere to local laws. Estimated values per lot vary significantly. See the ITT documents published on the Mercell online tendering platform for more details.
Framework Agreements for cloud solutions may be awarded to Bidders who pass the procurement evaluation, resulting in a portfolio of services for the Customers to consume. The Frameworks will provide standardised contract terms and Call off Contracts for use by the Customers. This will remove, or will at least significantly reduce, the local overheads for technical, commercial or legal activities typically required when engaging new Suppliers. As a result, this procurement will significantly reduce the barriers for the Pan European Research and Education participating institutes to consume cloud solutions. 
GÉANT expects to award Framework Agreements to Bidders (who are selected in accordance with the mechanisms described within this procurement) for a period of up to five (5) years from the commencement date. This term is justified due to the very large investment in time and effort on both supply and procurement side of this aggregated procurement. The EU Regulation 2022/2560 on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market will be applicable for all relevant EU lots.
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents.
Tenders will be open in a digital environment. It is not possible to witness the opening to the received tenders.
For this lot GÉANT searches for providers who are able to offer and deliver the following solutions consisting of: IaaS infrastructure as a service. Where the costumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications. The customer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage and deployed applications; and possibly limited control of select networking components (e.g., host firewalls) Note: this definition of compute may include server and serverless computing for example virtual machines, FPGAs, etc. This IaaS(+) solution or Solution may (optionally) also offer: PaaS (Platform as a Service). The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages, libraries, services and tools supported by the provider. SaaS (Software as a Service) complementary software services utilising Bidders public IaaS/PaaS resources. These complementary software service offerings must utilize (or be based on or directly related to) the Bidders Public IaaS resources (CPU, memory, storage, networking). Managed services or license based (e.g. VMs with applications pre-installed from a vendor's cloud marketplace) services and general PaaS and SaaS services available in the marketplace and running in customer tenancies, may be included but these must be a direct consequence of the usage of IaaS services. 

The estimates for projected (maximum) usage are provided, are to be considered non-binding and indicative only, and there is no guarantee of such consumption whatsoever. All indications and volumes are provided for information purposes only and will be used by GÉANT to set an upper overall maximum amount that may be purchased under a Framework Agreement. No rights can be derived from the indicated estimated value.