📋 Tender Overview
Contract awarded for Digital infrastructure, platform, and workplace solution based on iaas for the municipality of hellendoorn lot-0000, title: digital infrastructure, platform, and workplace solution based on iaas for the municipality of hellendoorn, description: the municipality of hellendoorn has entered into an agreement for the delivery, setup, implementation, transition, management, maintenance, support, and further development of an integrated digital infrastructure, platform, connectivity, continuity, and workplace solution based on iaas. the assignment includes, among other things, the migration of the existing municipal data center infrastructure, servers, virtual environments, and applications to a future-proof iaas environment, the realization of a modern digital workplace environment, the necessary platform services, backup, recovery, failover, and disaster recovery provisions, security, monitoring, service management, and support. the municipality of hellendoorn is connected to the regional data network of municipalities / the regional fiber optic ring of it platform twente. within this infrastructure, existing optical connections, regional facilities, redundancy, and performance have been established. for the continuity of municipal services, the preservation of existing network performance, the necessary redundancy, and the feasibility of the migration within the available transition periods, it is required that the iaas environment is directly, redundantly, and operationally connected to the rdng infrastructure. without direct rdng connection, the existing performance, redundancy, regional facilities, and transition periods cannot be sufficiently guaranteed. alternative solutions, such as connection via generic internet connections, vpn constructions, new fiber optic routes, public cloud platforms, or other data center solutions not directly connected to rdng, do not provide a reasonable alternative or substitute, as they cannot be realized in a timely manner, do not offer equivalent redundancy, do not maintain existing optical capacity, and do not avoid unacceptable continuity, performance, security, and transition risks. based on the conducted market exploration and technical analysis, the municipality concludes that the assignment, within the necessary technical conditions and deadlines, can only be executed by the intended contractor, visolity bv, utilizing the essential rdng-connected infrastructure of previder bv. the municipality has therefore awarded the contract using the negotiation procedure without prior call for competition, as competition is lacking for technical reasons as referred to in article 2.32 paragraph 1 under b sub 2 of the public procurement act 2012 and article 32 paragraph 2 under b directive 2014/24/eu. the municipality believes that no reasonable alternative or substitute is available and that the lack of competition is not the result of an artificial limitation of the contract conditions, but arises from objective technical conditions that are necessary for continuity, performance, security, redundancy, and timely transition of the municipal digital infrastructure. see also mercell s-2-c, publication t207769. estimated value excluding vat: 4400000.00 eur.Digital infrastructure, platform, and workplace solution based on iaas for the municipality of hellendoorn
