Fourniture, intégration et maintenance de solutions d'infrastructure serveurs, stockage et sauvegarde pour datacenter et prestations associées

The contract timeline details are as follows:

• Contract Start Date: The initial duration of the framework agreement is set to begin on February 1, 2026. However, if the notification date occurs after February 1, 2026, the start date will align with the notification date.
• Initial Contract Duration: The framework agreement is concluded for an initial period of two (2) years.
• Stated End Date for Initial Duration: The end of the initial duration of the framework agreement is fixed at January 31, 2027, regardless of its start date.
• Renewal: The agreement can be tacitly renewed once for an additional period of two (2) years.
• Total Duration: The theoretical maximum duration of the framework agreement is four (4) years. The total duration, including any renewal period, cannot exceed forty-eight (48) months.
• Key Milestones/Phases:
• Reversibility Phase: A reversibility period of three (3) months begins from the notification of the end of the contract.
• Quarterly Reporting: Detailed quarterly reports are required, with deadlines as follows:
• First quarter (January-March): By April 15.
• Second quarter (April-June): By July 15.
• Third quarter (July-September): By October 15.
• Fourth quarter (October-December): By January 15 of the following year.

The core scope of work for this tender, as explicitly stated in the documents, involves the design, supply, deployment, and maintenance of server, storage, and backup infrastructure equipment and solutions for a datacenter.

A high-level summary of the Statement of Work and core deliverables includes:

• Proof of Concept (POC), if necessary.
• Implementation of changes, such as equipment replacement and migrations.
• Macroscopic planning.
• Installation of all hardware, including verification and acceptance for "in-service readiness".
• Configuration and parameter setting of hardware, virtualization solutions, storage, and backup, including verification and acceptance operations for "fitness for purpose" and "regular service verification" (anomaly correction for 8 weeks).
• Training and knowledge transfer sessions on all components of the evolving solution for a team of 5 administrators and engineers.
• Acquisition of equipment and solutions for infrastructure consolidation and maintenance. This includes various rackable servers (with or without disks, for external storage, for artificial intelligence), hyperconverged servers, SAN hybrid storage bays, and SAN FC/Ethernet storage network switches.
• Expert services (prestations d’expertise), which encompass needs analysis, architecture definition, determination of hardware and software solutions, sizing, prototyping (POC), and validation of solutions and provisional planning.
• Project management, covering coordination of internal and external stakeholders, planning, and animation of steering and follow-up committees.
• Maintenance and guarantees for the proposed and existing equipment and solutions.