With this procurement procedure, the contracting authority intends to conclude a framework agreement for the provision of PaaS services for AI applications on a high-performance, secure, and sovereign cloud platform with two economic participants.
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BMDS-AI Platform.
The subject of the service is the provision of a cloud-agnostic AI platform as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which serves as a building block of a modular, cross-cloud infrastructure.
The services include the provision and operation of a high-performance, secure, and DVC-oriented cloud platform, particularly regarding the appropriate use of open standards, open interfaces, or open-source components. The platform provides a unified operational environment for containerized applications and AI workloads and supports multi-cloud as well as hybrid deployment scenarios.
It must ensure the secure and reproducible operation of AI applications, provide GPU-supported computing environments, and support MLOps pipelines. Additionally, the integration of existing on-premises systems that are centrally managed must be enabled.
The initial applications will operate the KIPITZ solutions and the AI application to accelerate planning and approval processes on the platform. Further applications may be added during the contract term.
The platform must provide uniform mechanisms for identity and role management, encryption (e.g., BYOK/HYOK), logging, auditing, as well as for change and exit processes.
Further information about the subject of the contract can be found in the tender documents, particularly in the service description and the draft contract.
ESTIMATED VALUE, MAXIMUM VALUE, FUNDING
The estimated contract volume of this framework agreement is EUR 208.00 million net over the maximum contract duration of four years. The maximum value of the framework agreement is EUR 249.60 million net over the maximum contract duration of four years. The funds are secured in the amount of EUR 200 million net, of which there is a justified expectation that funding can be ensured in the amount of EUR 195 million net. The funding of EUR 49.5 million is still uncertain. There is no entitlement to the awarding of individual orders to a certain extent. The information serves exclusively for procurement law purposes of transparency. The bidders must take this into account when calculating.
AUTHORIZED AND ENTITLED PARTIES
The Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization, is both the contracting authority and the entitled party to call and acquire. It can place individual orders for itself as well as for the entitled parties within the federal administration. This includes all parts of the federal administration, including ITZBund. Individual calls are issued by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization for these entitled parties, who are solely entitled and obliged through the declared individual order for them.
Additionally, govdigital eG is authorized to call and acquire. It can place individual orders for itself and for its members. The individual calls are made by govdigital eG for its members, who are solely entitled and obliged through the declared individual order for them.
NOTICE ON PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILITY
Economic participants from third countries that are not covered by an international agreement with the European Union, which guarantees equal and mutual access to public procurement (