Danmarks Nationalbank’s payment system Kronos2 plays a central role in the infrastructure for handling payments in Denmark. From 2025, the settlement of Danish kroner will relocate to the new European consolidated payment and securities settlement platform, Target Services, which is operated by the European Central Bank, ECB. The migration to Target Services will bring several benefits for both Danmarks Nationalbank and payment system participants. The project for the migration of the Danish payments infrastructure to the Target Services platform is called TargetDKK.

The Eurosystem Single Market Infrastructure Gateway (ESMIG) is the technical component delivered as part of the Target Services platform. Via the ESMIG, Danmarks Nationalbank can access the market infrastructures that the Eurosystem provides.

This procurement aims a entering into a principal ESMIG Connectivity Services Agreement and a secondary DUAL Connectivity Services Agreement.

Lot no 1, ESMIG Connectivity Service Agreement, is Danmarks Nationalbank’s primary connectivity agreement. The agreement aims at ensuring access to Target Services in A2A mode with the exchange of messages and files in XML format using the ISO20022 standard and in U2A mode via a browser using the HTTPs protocol. The agreement also aims at ensuring access to Value Added Services within the scope of the agreement.

This procurement aims a securing a principal ESMIG Connectivity Services Agreement and a secondary DUAL Connectivity Services Agreement.

Lot no 2, Dual Connection Service Agreement, is Danmarks Nationalbank’s secondary connectivity agreement. This agreement aims at ensuring access to Target Servcies in U2A mode (low volume) via a browser using the HTTPs protocol. This agreement will function as a contingency connection.