Integratieplatform

The contract has an estimated initial duration of 120 months (10 years). This initial term can be extended seven times, with each extension lasting one year.

Regarding the tender process leading to the contract, key dates include:

• 18 September 2026: Announcement of the tender was sent.
• 23 October 2026, 10:00: Latest date for receiving applications in the selection phase.
• 16 November 2026: Notification of the selection decision (this date and subsequent dates are indicative).
• 2 December 2026: Sending of the invitation to tender and related documents.
• 2 February 2027, 10:00: Latest date for receiving tenders.
• 3 March 2027: Provisional award decision.
• 24 March 2027: Final award decision.

The specific contract start date and end date are not explicitly stated for the awarded contract, only the duration and extension possibilities.

The core scope of work and statement of work summary for this tender primarily involves the delivery, implementation, and ongoing support of an integration platform. This platform is intended to connect applications and data, linking internal systems (such as case management and ERP), external registers (BRP, KvK), and the provincial data platform (Databricks).

Key deliverables and responsibilities include:

• Platform Delivery and Implementation: Supplying an integration platform that connects various systems and data sources, adhering to an API-led architecture approach (system, process, and experience APIs).
• Transition and Migration: Managing the transition and implementation from the existing integration platform to the new one.
• Documentation and Analysis: Inventorying, analyzing, and technically and functionally describing all existing couplings (both on and off the current platform) and updating integration documentation to provide a complete overview of the integration landscape.
• Design and Architecture: Describing and maintaining the High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) throughout the contract duration.
• Governance and Process Setup: Establishing governance, roles, organizational structure, and processes for the integration function, including lifecycle management and change management.
• Platform Core Components: Delivering and maintaining the core of the integration platform, including the basic architecture, reusable connectors, security, monitoring, and patterns/templates for common integration scenarios.
• Accessibility and Usability: Ensuring the platform is accessible to developers, architects, and functional administrators to allow the province to develop and define couplings independently.
• Functional Management: Providing functional management for a maximum of one year during a bridging period, if the province has not yet set up its own functional management.
• Integration with SIEM: Ensuring the delivered service is integrated (near real-time) with the SIEM of the Province's SOC supplier.
• Information Security: Annually providing a document detailing how information security is handled for the assignment, including prevention of system/data failure, incident response, continuous monitoring of security developments, and periodic updates to the province. The initial description is due within one month of definitive award.
• Project Staffing: Providing a project leader and a project team, including at least one consultant and one architect, for the setup of the solution and couplings.
• Testing: Participating in potential stress and chain tests during the test and acceptance phase.
• Ongoing Service and Support: After implementation, migration, and transition, providing management and further support for the integration platform and its realized integrations. This includes end-to-end management for incident, security, problem, configuration, change management, and request fulfillment.
• Service Desk: Offering a skilled second-line service desk as a point of contact for the province's management for notifications and questions.
• Participation in Consultations: Attending relevant strategic, tactical, roadmap, architecture, operational, Financial Operations, and Change Advisory Board meetings.
• Knowledge Transfer: Training and guiding employees, transferring knowledge and documentation, and handing over to management.
• Exit and Retransition: Adhering to an integral exit and re-transition plan, including roles, responsibilities, timelines, and handover activities upon contract termination.

The entire assignment forms a cohesive whole, covering development, management, and further development of the integration platform.