Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-08-13
Buyer: Ministry of information society and administration
Country: MK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72410000: Provider services
Estimated value: 60000000 MKD
Submission deadline: 2021-09-09
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Cloud platform rental for hosting the systems of the Ministry of Information Society and Administration
- migration of systems and data from the cloud platform currently used by MISA. Detailed specification of virtual resource systems are in the attachment 1.
The migration of all systems from Annex 1 to be finalized no later than 22.10.2021. The migration is finalized by ensuring the full functionality of each system separately with confirmation and in cooperation with the contracting authority.
- migration of systems and data from the cloud platform currently used by MISA. Detailed specification of virtual resource systems are in the attachment 1.
The migration of all systems from Annex 1 to be finalized no later than 22.10.2021. The migration is finalized by ensuring the full functionality of each system separately with confirmation and in cooperation with the contracting authority.
The contracting authority will use the cloud platform for systems and services placed on the currently leased cloud platform, new additional systems and services, but also for gradual migration of existing systems, for which it currently uses its own resources
The integrated cloud platform should fully satisfy the necessary functions of a virtual data center with the ability to create virtual servers and using additional cloud services.
The platform should enable dynamic allocation of resources and guaranteed physical resources equivalent to virtual ones. The platform should allow easy change of resources (disk space, processors, working memory, etc.).
The platform should provide 99.95% availability annually (maximum allowed unavailability of 4 hours and 22 minutes and 58 seconds per year). The maximum allowed unavailability is an integral part of the contract that will be concluded between the contracting authority and the selected bidder.
The procurement holder should have at least two data centers - primary and secondary (redundant) data center. The offer should clearly identify the data centers in which the data will be stored, and their location should be located on the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia. Additionally, MISA and the selected bidder will conclude a special agreement, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Personal Data Protection and other bylaws.
Cloud platform rental for hosting the systems of the Ministry of Information Society and Administration, procurement for 3 years
1.4.1The public procurement contract will be given by applying the selection criteria: lowest price, by implementing an Open Procedure and an electronic auction.1.4 1 The contracting authority, after the conducted electronic auction as the last phase in the open procedure, the contract will be given to the the economic operator whose offer has the lowest price.
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;

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: 60000000