The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, henceforth referred to as NAV, shall procure various system software for central and distributed operating platforms. Several of NAV's central applications, including Infotrygd, are run on IBM System z, whilst other applications are run on distributed platforms. In this connection system software is to be understood as software that is used for the management, development and administration of this environment. The professional systems are not included in the contract.

The current system software is provided by several suppliers. The operative system z/OS is provided by IBM. In 2016 several independent procurements will be made for central and distributed operational platforms.

This procurement is for software with the accompanying services for the development tool Z/OS.

The competition has 2 sub areas:

1. Development tool;

2. Analysis tool.

The contract will, within each sub area, comprise of two main areas: 1) Software licences; and 2) services connected to the implementation and maintenance of the software in the contracting authority's premises, including any migration from the existing to the new software. Tenderers shall be able to implement, integrate, maintain and further develop the offered systems.

Each tenderer can be qualified for one or both sub areas.

Further specifications of the requirements will be in the tender documentation.