With this procurement procedure, the contracting authority intends to conclude a framework agreement for the provision of PaaS services for AI applications on a powerful, secure, and sovereign cloud platform with two economic participants.
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BMDS-AI Platform.
The subject of performance is the provision of a cloud-agnostic AI platform as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which serves as a component of a modular, cross-cloud infrastructure.
The services include the provision and operation of a powerful, secure, and DVC-oriented cloud platform, especially with regard to the appropriate use of open standards, open interfaces, or open-source components. The platform provides a unified operating environment for containerized applications and AI workloads and supports multi-cloud and hybrid deployment scenarios.
It must ensure the secure and reproducible operation of AI applications, provide GPU-supported computing environments, and support MLOps pipelines. Integration of existing on-premises systems, which are centrally managed, must be enabled.
The first applications to be operated on the platform are the KIPITZ solutions and the AI application for accelerating planning and approval processes. 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 regarding the subject of the contract can be found in the tender documents, particularly in the performance description and the draft contract.
ESTIMATED VALUE, MAXIMUM VALUE, FINANCING RESOURCES
The estimated contract volume of this framework agreement amounts to EUR 208.00 million net over the maximum contract term of four years. The maximum value of the framework agreement is EUR 249.60 million net over the maximum contract term of four years. The funding is secured in the amount of EUR 200 million net, of which there is a justified expectation that financing of EUR 195 million net can be secured. In the amount of EUR 49.5 million, the financing is still uncertain. There is no entitlement to the awarding of individual orders in a specific scope. The information is for transparency legal purposes only. Bidders must take this into account in their calculations.
AUTHORIZED AND ENTITLED ENTITIES
The Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry of Digital and State Modernization, is both the contracting authority and the entitled party for calling and referencing. It can issue individual orders for itself as well as for authorized recipients within the federal administration. This includes all parts of the federal administration, including the ITZBund. The individual calls are made by the Federal Ministry of Digital and State Modernization for these authorized recipients, who are exclusively entitled and obliged by the declared individual order.
Additionally, govdigital eG is authorized to call and reference. It can issue individual orders for itself and for its members. The individual calls are made by govdigital eG for its members, who are exclusively entitled and obliged by the declared individual order.
NOTE ON PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILITY
Economic participants from third countries that are not covered by an international agreement with the European Union, which guarantees equal and reciprocal access to public procurement (