The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, as part of the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine (EUACI), wishes to enter into a framework agreement that will provide anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine access to IT equipment and software at competitive prices and improve supply and support processes. Delivery will be in Kiev, Ukraine.
The EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine (EUACI) has the overall objective to improve the implementation of anti-corruption policy in Ukraine, thereby ultimately contributing to a reduction in corruption in Ukraine. This framework agreement forms part of component 1 of EUACI, which has the purpose of strengthening the operational and policy-making capacities of Ukrainian state institutions dealing with anti-corruption.
The objectives of this Framework Agreement are overall to procure IT equipment and software at short no-tice and to competitive prices to the benefit of the Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions.
The Framework Agreement is entered into by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. However, the institutions and bodies named in Appendix 5 in the tender material are entitled to use the Framework Agreement for the purchase of products and services under in the Framework Agreement.
The contracting authority wishes to conclude a framework agreement with two suppliers. One supplier is the preferred supplier backed up by a secondary supplier that will deliver IT equipment and software under the framework agreement upon request by the above-mentioned anti-corruption agencies based in Kiev, Ukraine. The secondary supplier will only be requested to deliver in order of the circumstances listed in the Framework agreement. The supplier shall be able to deliver and install the requested IT equipment and software to the Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions within short notice and shall be responsible to deliver in Kiev, Ukraine without the involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and/or the EUACI.
The IT equipment and software to be procured under this framework agreement covers the following items:
1. Hardware:
a. Server equipment
b. Data Storage equipment
c. Desktops (including operating system and office productivity software)
d. Other office IT equipment (printers, scanners, battery backup and surge protector systems)
2. Network infrastructure
a. Switches and routers
3. Software:
a. Endpoint Security
b. OCR Text Recognition Software
c. Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform
d. Data Integration Tool
e. In-Memory Database
f. Database partitioning
g. Spatial and graph database management platform
h. Database diagnostic pack
i. Advanced analytics platform
j. Database tuning pack
k. Automated backup software
l. Commercial relational database management system
m. Data guard software
n. Compression software for database storage
o. Software to support multitenant container database
p. Commercial NoSQL database
q. Analytical software for visualization of information arrays
r. Data Quality tool
In addition, the framework agreement will also include services at hourly rates, e.g. installation and configu-ration services as described in the framework agreement.