Contract notice: Research and experimental Tender - 40236209

Object of the contract
Research and experimental development services
Description: Contract notice: Research and experimental development services
Authority Type: Other
Contact Nature: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
Document: Contract notice
Regulation: Agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation
Award criteria: The most economic tender
CPV code: 73100000, 48610000, 72317000, 72222300, 73100000, 48610000, 72317000, 72222300
CPV Description: Research and experimental development services.
Database systems.
Data storage services.
Information technology services.
Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP) to Buy R&D (Research and Development) Services for Archiving and Preservation for Research Environments
Reference Number : IT-4531/IT/PCP
This contract notice invites interested operators to submit tenders to a procurement.
The procurement will take the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative solutions.
Each selected operator will be awarded a framework agreement that covers 3 R&D phases.
The 3 phases are:
— R&D up to solution design,
— R&D up to a prototype,
— R&D up to original development, validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services.
After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.
The innovative end-to-end archival and preservation services to be delivered in Archiver will tackle the following technical challenges:
— enabling effective petabyte range data management in a hybrid model, combining the procurers on-premise infrastructure with commercial cloud services,
— optimizing data access and ingestion at very high rates (1-10 Gbps/day) for use cases in multiple scientific domains,
— enabling efficient data content distribution anticipating access profiles evolution as cloud access becomes popular and scientific data volumes grow,
— providing high-end network connectivity through GEANT network and Federated AAI for authentication and access control,
— adopting an approach based on standard practices, compliant with the OAIS reference model and the relevant series of standards (ISO 14721),
— exploring a cost effective business model taking into account data access patterns and archive longevity.
The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions i.e. beyond the procurers.
Tenders shall be submitted via the lead Procurer`s e-tendering platform, https://cds.cern.ch/. The precise URLs for submitting tenders and instructions for using the platform are communicated by email to Tenderers that access the Request for Tender documents on the project website (https://www.archiver-project.eu/) and indicate that they will submit a tender.
The tenderer shall be able to demonstrate proven competence and experience in:
— the performance of R&D services,
— the domain of cloud computing,
— the domain of data archiving and preservation.
Additional criteria are stated in the procurement documents.
This procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives (including the EU procurement remedies directives 89/665/EEC and 92/13/EEC) and the national laws that implement them. This is because it concerns the procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs.
Publication of this contract notice in the EU Official Journal is not to be understood as a waiver of this exemption. Publication is made on a voluntary basis and the procurement will not follow the procedures under the EU public procurement directives, but rather the procedure described in the tender documentation.
The procedure indicated in this contract notice was chosen formal reasons only. This is because it is not possible to publish a contract notice without selecting one of the listed procedures.
Offers shall be submitted in English only. All communication (before, during and after the procurement) shall be made in English only.
Further information:
— the project website www.archiver-project.eu
— the open market consultation materials: https://www.archiver-project.eu/archiver-open-market-consultation-roadmap
— Q&A from the open market consultation: https://www.archiver-project.eu/faq
— PCPs on the Europa website: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/innovation-procurement
Contact: [email protected]
Internet address (URL): www.cern.ch