The Brandenburg IT Service Provider (ZIT-BB) is the central service provider for the immediate state administration of Brandenburg for the provision of IT services. His extensive portfolio of tasks includes, among other things, the planning, provision and operation of the technical infrastructure as well as the coordination and support of both authority-specific and inter-agency and joint IT procedures. His responsibilities also include IT security management for the IT infrastructure of the state administration and responsibility for the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).
From its central location in Potsdam, ZIT-BB currently manages around 18,000 jobs in the Brandenburg state administration. The number of jobs to be looked after will continue to increase in the coming years. With the centralization of the IT of the state administration, the support of the authorities and institutions of the state of Brandenburg in the planning, design and use of information technology as well as consulting on IT security issues has become an essential field of activity of the company.
Furthermore, the ZIT-BB provides services in accordance with the Brandenburg E-Government Act, in particular for municipalities, offices and associations of municipalities in the state.
The main location of the ZIT-BB is located at Steinstraße 104-106 in 14480 Potsdam. Due to its state-wide responsibility, the ZIT-BB has external locations in Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder), Wünsdorf, Gransee and Eberswalde, among others. He operates his data center in Berlin.
The Brandenburg-based IT service provider ZIT-BB operates a client-based portal for the realization of Internet-based vehicle registration (i-Kfz) of levels 1 to 3 (client-based
i-Kfz-Portal) for 18 vehicle registration offices in the state of Brandenburg. With the implementation of the first to the third stage i-Kfz, the complete life cycle of a vehicle can be handled Internet-based from a registration point of view, from new/first registration, re-registration, transfer, one-day registration to decommissioning.
The Ordinance on the Registration of Vehicles for Road Traffic (Vehicle Registration Ordinance - (FZV)) regulates the introduction of internet-based vehicle registration level 4 as of September 1, 2023. In its entirety, the fourth stage 4 represents a comprehensive extension of the i-vehicle components and functionalities implemented with stage 3. The aim of this expansion stage is to automate the use cases relevant to approval and to enable them for legal entities as well. Applications are submitted via the i-Kfz portal to the ZIT-BB of the 18 registration authorities or via a central major customer interface (GKS) for major customers, i.e. legal entities with more than 500 applications per year within the meaning of § 33 FZV, at the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA).
According to the "Minimum Security Requirements for Internet-Based Vehicle Registration (MSA-i-Kfz)", Section 7.2, compliance with the minimum security requirements defined in the MSA-i-Kfz for the information technology system set up for this purpose (client-based i-Kfz-Portal), for the specialist procedure and for the communication channels defined in the MSA-i-Kfz must be checked and confirmed by an independent third party as part of an audit.
The specialist procedures for vehicle registration and any existing procedures indirectly involved in the registration process, e.g. reservation of desired license plates and appointments, are operated by the 18 registration authorities in the local administrations in the state of Brandenburg themselves.
By means of this EU-wide call for tenders, an external service provider is being sought to provide services on the subject of "Audits of the i-Kfz-Portal Level 4 at the Brandenburg IT service provider ZIT-BB as well as the systems of the specialist procedures and associated interfaces in the 18 registration authorities of the State of Brandenburg for the introduction of Level 4 of Internet-based vehicle registration (i-Kfz) in accordance with the MSA-i-Kfz of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA)".