Provision and Management of Necessary Transversal Cloud Security and Integration Services

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The European Investment Fund (‘the EIF’) was established in 1994 and is a specialist provider of risk finance to small and medium-sized enterprises (‘SME’) across Europe. The EIF has a tri-partite shareholder structure including the European Investment Bank (‘EIB’), the European Union represented by the European Commission (‘EC’), and 32 banks and financial institutions. The EIF has its own legal personality and financial autonomy among the institutions of the European Union.

By developing and offering targeted financial instruments to its network of selected financial intermediaries, such as venture capital and private equity funds, banks, guarantee and leasing institutions and micro-credit providers, the EIF’s goal is to enhance access to finance for SMEs.

In this respect, the EIF’s mission is twofold:

• fostering EU policy objectives, notably in the field of entrepreneurship, economic growth, innovation, research and development, employment, social cohesion and regional development; and
• generating financial returns for EIF’s shareholders and mandators, through a commercial pricing policy and a balance of fee- and risk-based income model.

Article 28(4) of the EIB’s Statute and Article 36 of the EIF’s Statutes provide that the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union applies to EIF, to the members of its organs and to its staff on the terms and conditions laid down in the Treaty establishing the European Union. The EIF is therefore exempt from taxes to the same extent as its shareholders, the EIB and the European Union represented by the European Commission.

More background information about the EIF may be found on the website http://www.eif.org.

Purpose of the Call for Tenders

The EIF is looking for a partnership that will help with the management of specific security controls and compliance aspects of cloud-related services as well as integration services and will work in close collaboration with existing EIF service providers operating in the cloud. This call for tenders aims at provisioning already identified cloud security and integration services. Given the duration of the call for tenders, as per the lifecycle of new technologies, some technical security services (as per the scope of this call for tenders) maybe renewed, retired or added.

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