Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-30
Buyer: Statens lånekasse for utdanning
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 32400000 | 48000000 | 48730000: Security software package | 72000000 | 72100000
Estimated value: 175000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2018-08-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Competition for IT services connected to a public cloud, consultancy services and operation for the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund is holding a negotiated procedure for IT services connected to a public cloud, consultancy services and operation. New contract models must be adapted to the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund´s revised sourcing strategy. SaaS is the preferred delivery model for everything that is not developed internally. “Public hyperscale cloud” must be chosen if IaaS and PaaS services are used. “Public hyperscale cloud” means significant, well-established and market-leading cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Competition for IT services connected to a public cloud, consultancy services and operation for the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund would like to enter into framework agreements with tenderers who, throughout the contract period, will assist with expertise on cloud services and the accompanying infrastructure. See the tender documentation, Point 6.1 for further information.
The framework agreement will be valid from the date stated on the front page of the contract (commissioning date) for 2 (two) years. Option for the Contracting Authority to extend for a further 2 years, 1 year at a time.
Competition for IT services connected to a public cloud, consultancy services and operation for the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund
Based on deliveries from the analysis phase, the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund will hold one or several mini-competitions for transforming services to a public cloud and operation of the services.
Most of the services are expected to be announced in service area 2. Generally, services that are exclusively run in the public cloud are here, whilst services that consist of an on-premise-component will be in service area 3.
The Framework Agreement will be valid from the date stated on the front page of the contract (commissioning date) for 2 (two) years. Option for the Contracting Authority to extend for a further 2 years, 1 year at a time.
Competition for IT services connected to a public cloud, consultancy services and operation for the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund
Based on the deliveries from the analysis phase, the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund will hold one or several mini-competitions for the establishment and operation of network services and traditional IT services.
Service area 3 primarily consists of on-premise services. Where these services use a support component in a public cloud as part of their delivery, both on-premise and public cloud components will be in service area 3 in order to ensure uniform delivery of the service. A typical example can be network operation where there are centralised control units and monitoring in a public cloud, whilst the network that is delivered is on an on-premise service. The generality of this will then be within service area 3.
The Framework Agreement will be valid from the date stated on the front page of the contract (commissioning date) for 2 (two) years. Option for the Contracting Authority to extend for a further 2 years, 1 year at a time.
Competition for IT services connected to a public cloud, consultancy services and operation for the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund

Eligibility requirements: See the tender documentation.

Award value: 175000000