As a managed service provider in the IT market of statutory health insurance, BITMARCK is driving digitalization in the industry and among its customers with innovative products, solutions and services. The basis for this is the GKV software standard BITMARCK_21c|ng, which is used by the affiliated health insurance companies. Customers of the group of companies are the company and guild health insurance companies as well as DAK-Gesundheit and other substitute funds - more than 30,000 employees and around 25 million insured persons in the GKV benefit from the IT services of BITMARCK, more than 80 percent of the German statutory health insurance companies are customers of the group of companies. With around 1,600 employees, BITMARCK achieves an annual turnover of 350 million euros.

In connection with their tasks and for their customers and shareholders, clients require various hardware in the area of workplace equipment, servers, network components and storage components.

Against this background, the contracting authorities have decided to set up a Europe-wide procurement procedure for

Conclusion of framework agreements for the purchase of hardware in accordance with the requirements of the Public Procurement Ordinance

(VgV). In order to achieve synergies in the purchase of the hardware, the clients for

the tender for the hardware was decided in four lots. The aim of the call for tenders is to award

Framework contracts with five bidders per lot.

With Lot 1 "Workstation Hardware", the client would like to procure the following products:

- Fat-Clients;

- Thin-Clients;

- Notebooks;

- Tablets;

- Monitors;

- Keyboards/mice/peripherals.

For the framework agreement, the bidders must apply specific products (see price sheet per lot) to all requested products

Offer product categories according to the service description.

With Lot 2 "Server Hardware", the client wants to procure the following products:

- Server (X86-Server, UNIX-Server);

- Diverse Geräteklassen (RACK, HMC, Messaging Gateway, Netezza);

- Server accessories;

- Various server components.

For the framework agreement, the bidders must apply specific products (see price sheet per lot) to all requested products

Offer product categories according to the service description.

With Lot 3 "Network Component Hardware", the client wants to procure the following products:

- Switches;

- Firewalls;

- Loadbalancer;

- Network accessories.

For the framework agreement, the bidders must apply specific products (see price sheet per lot) to all requested products

Offer product categories according to the service description.

With Lot 3 "Storage Component Hardware", the customer would like to procure the following products:

- Storagekomponenten (Blockspeicher, Dateispeicher, Objektspeicher/Gateways);

- Storage accessories.

For the framework agreement, the bidders must apply specific products (see price sheet per lot) to all requested products

Offer product categories according to the service description.