Provision of External Staff and Services for Maintenance, Support, Development and Implementation of Packages and Specific Information Systems at the EIB Group

Item Description:

The European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group) is made up of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF). For the purposes of this Call for Tenders, the EIB Group is represented by the EIB.

The EIB is the financing institution of the European Union (EU). Created by the Treaty of Rome, its shareholders are the EU Member States, and its Board of Governors is composed of the Finance Ministers of these States. The EIB enjoys its own legal personality and financial autonomy within the EU system.

The EIB contributes towards the integration, balanced development and economic and social cohesion of the EU Member States. To this end, it raises on the markets substantial volumes of funds that it directs on favourable terms towards financing capital projects in accordance with the objectives of the EU. Outside the EU the EIB implements the financial components of agreements concluded under European development aid and cooperation policies. The EIF supports Europe’s SMEs by improving their access to finance through a wide range of selected financial intermediaries. To this end, the EIF designs, promotes and implements equity and debt financial instruments which specifically target SMEs. In this role, the EIF fosters EU objectives in support of entrepreneurship, growth, innovation, research and development, and employment.

More background information about the EIB may be found on the website http://www.eib.org. For further information on the EIF, please consult its website http://www.eif.org.

Objectives of this tender

The EIB Group has a requirement for Provision of External Staff and Services for Maintenance, Support, Development and Implementation of Packages and Specific Information Systems at the EIB Group

This Call for Tenders is divided into twelve (12) distinct lots, each lot representing a different technical domain and scope:

Lot 1: Financial Packages

Lot 1 covers services related to the maintenance, support and development of the EIB’s financial (off-the-shelf) packages used in the treasury, capital market, back-office lending and risk management area.

Lot 2: Document Management System – SharePoint

Lot 2 covers the maintenance, support and development of SharePoint applications and solutions.

Lot 3: Document Management System – Content Server

Lot 3 covers Services related to the maintenance, support and development of the EIB’s Document Management System (Content Server). The required Services are grouped in 3 categories: development, maintenance and operational.

Lot 4: Admin Suite Applications

Lot 4 covers services related to the maintenance, support and development of the specific enterprise applications at the EIB. The EIB has developed or purchased and implemented a variety of applications based on solutions such as BMC software Remedy, archibus java, sybase powerbuilder, etc. This collection of applications is called admin suite.

Lot 5: Enterprise Service Bus and Service Oriented Architecture

Lot 5 covers services related to the maintenance, administration, support, design and development of the EIB’s Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) middleware and services (the Integration Platform), and the evolution of the EIB’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) program.

Lot 6: EIB-specific Applications

Lot 6 covers services related to the maintenance, support and development of the Bank’s specific (in-house) applications.

Lot 7: Application Technical Support and Databases

Lot 7 covers database and applications support services related to the technologies and products used by EIB, both server and client tools.

Lot 8: Business Analysis, Project Management and Testing Services

Lot 8 covers the provision of services for the Bank in the area of business analysis, project management and testing for standard IT services and platform scope.

Lot 9: Intranet and Extranet websites and applications

Lot 9 covers services related to the maintenance, support and development of the intranet and extranet websites, mobile applications, and applications at the EIB Group while keeping up-to-date with the technological improvements and developments at the EIB Group.

Lot 10: Data Warehouse

Lot 10 covers the maintenance, support and development of the Operational data warehouse and administrative (admin) warehouse as well as the reporting and interfaces linked to it.

Lot 11: Administrative Services

Lot 11 covers administrative support services concerning procurement, budget, contracts, projects and reporting related to externally delivered IT services.

Lot 12: PeopleSoft

Lot 12 covers services related to the maintenance, support and development of the Bank’s PeopleSoft Suite. The required services are grouped in 3 categories: development, maintenance and operational.

Tenderers may submit a proposal for one, several or all of the lots; the Bank considers that it is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage to submit proposals for all lots; Tenderers will be evaluated separately for each lot.

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