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Technology and Innovation - Negotiated Request for Proposal - Mainframe Services

Solicitation number AB-2024-09689

Publication date

Closing date and time 2025/01/09 09:00 EST

Last amendment date


    Description
    The Province is seeking to establish a contract with a qualified Proponent to deliver high-quality MFaaS to replace its legacy mainframe (see Appendix D – Existing Mainframe). The successful Proponent should have the capability to provide optimized hardware necessary for a MFaaS, using the existing software set out in Appendix E. The Province may consider approaches that provision one or more MFaaS to drive for optimization and achieving license cost efficiency. The Province intends to contract with the successful Proponents for a period of 5 years. The Province anticipates the Effective Date will be February 20, 2025 and the Commencement Date will be April 1, 2025. The Province will confirm the actual Effective Date and Commencement Date when finalizing the Contracts. The Province may extend the Contract, under the same terms and conditions including pricing, for an additional term or terms up to a maximum of 3 additional years

    Contract duration

    The estimated contract period will be 60 month(s), with a proposed start date of 2025/02/20.

    Trade agreements

    • World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO GPA)

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    Contact information

    Contracting organization

    Organization
    Technology and Innovation
    Address
    J.G. O'Donoghue Building 7000-113 Street
    Edmonton, CA-AB, T6H 5T6
    CA
    Contracting authority
    Daniel De Stefanis
    Email
    GOA.ITProcurement@gov.ab.ca
    Address
    J.G. O'Donoghue Building 7000-113 Street
    Edmonton, Alberta, T6H 5T6
    Canada
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