The City of Salo (hereinafter referred to as the contracting entity/client) will invite tenders for the procurement of workstations and related equipment and life-cycle services in accordance with this invitation to tender and its appendices. The contract period of the procurement is one year, after which the contract continues until further notice with six months' notice. A more detailed description of the procurement is given in section II.2.4) Description of the procurement and in this invitation to tender and its appendices.

The target of the procurement is workstations, related equipment and services. The equipment and services offered must meet the requirements set out in this invitation to tender and its appendices.

The following services will be procured in this procurement:

- an order portal maintained by the supplier for placing orders

- workstation computers to replace previously acquired equipment;

- workstation computers as new purchases

- peripherals, equipment and accessories related to workstations,

- pre-installation of equipment

- delivery and installation of equipment at the site

- lifecycle support service for customer workstations

- further processing of reversible devices

The number of devices to be procured outside the invitation to tender is small and a separate tender will be requested from the selected supplier on a case-by-case basis. The annual purchase volume of equipment is estimated at 15 desktop workstations, 1075 laptops and 175 different monitors. In terms of numbers, deliveries are concentrated in the third quarter of the year, when the equipment to be delivered to schools must be delivered. A more detailed estimate of the number and types of equipment can be found in the price appendix of the invitation to tender.

The goal is a standardized environment with low device model turnover. The equipment offered must be suitable and intended for use with a long life cycle. From the date of issue, the availability of the device model to the customer is at least 12 months. In the event of a change of equipment model, the supplier must give at least three months' notice and the decision to change the model is made together. In order to ensure the availability of equipment, the Supplier shall ensure an adequate delivery buffer so that orders can be delivered within the agreed delivery times. Whenever possible, the Customer provides the Supplier with advance information on the quantities of equipment to be procured.

The pre-installation utilizes the customer's SCCM environment. The customer has two AD environments, each with a separate SCCM implementation. The customer implements a model in which a Site server is placed at the vendor's premises for each AD environment. The customer is responsible for the telecommunications connection, SCCM software licenses, environment maintenance, packaging and maintenance of software installed on workstations.