Provision of IT Support Services

Item Description:

The European Commission, Publications Office of the European Union, (referred to below as the contracting authority) is planning to award the contract(s) resulting from the above procurement procedure. The procurement documents consist of the contract notice, this invitation letter, the draft contract(s) and tender specifications with their annexes. All documents are available in the attached ZIP File.

Nature of the contract

The contract is a multiple framework service contract in ‘sleeping’ cascade (‘the FWC’) with the following title: Provision of IT support services.

As exact implementing conditions, quantities and delivery times cannot be indicated in advance, the contracting authority intends to conclude a FWC which shall establish the basic terms for a series of specific contracts or order forms, the latter being a simplified form of specific contracts (hereafter collectively referred to as ‘orders’) to be issued over its duration. The FWC does not give rise to any direct obligation on the part of the contracting authority; it is only its implementation through orders that is binding on the part of the contracting authority.

Subject and background of the FWC

Provision of IT support services to deploy and support the Publications Office’s business information systems (also indicated as OP Applications) running on Linux and Windows Servers on different architectures: Datacentre Housing and Hosting services offered by DIGIT (EC Directorate) and PaaS based on Amazon AWS.

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