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Question: What is the contract timeline?

Context: Contract start date, end date, total duration, and any key milestones or phases mentioned. Return null if not stated.

The total duration of the contract is 25 months. This duration will be adjusted to incorporate any additional periods offered for warranty, subscriptions, and technical support services. The delivery and implementation term is a key aspect, with offers for this term being deemed non-compliant if they exceed 30 days. The supplementary period for warranty, subscriptions, and technical support services must be expressed in whole months and should not be less than 12 months. Offers providing a period greater than 24 months for these services will be considered compliant but will not receive additional points.

Contract start date, end date, and specific key milestones beyond the delivery/implementation and warranty/support periods are not explicitly stated.

The core scope of work for this tender involves the acquisition of "Security Solution" services for securing access/DNS traffic, DDoS, SIEM, SOAR, Instana, and Disaster Recovery (DR) in Brașov + Griviţa. The primary objective is to protect central infrastructure, data communications, internal and external applications, secure critical IT traffic and services, and monitor, analyze, correlate security events, ensure application observability, and optimize IT resource utilization. This includes maintaining the functional and updated status of existing security, monitoring, and administration components.

The tender is for the extension of support services, warranty, and subscriptions/licenses for existing solutions, without altering the current general architecture or introducing incompatible technologies. It aims to ensure operational and technological continuity.

Core deliverables and services include:

• Renewal and extension of licenses/subscriptions.
• Activation or assignment of licenses/subscriptions to the contracting authority.
• Remediation of identified non-conformities.
• Installation, configuration, functional testing, and integration into the existing IT&C infrastructure.
• Warranty for the entire contract period.
• Access to technical support and warranty.
• Access to software and security updates.
• Confirmation/entitlement documents.
• Assistance for clarifying and remedying any discrepancies.
• The contract duration is a maximum of 25 months, with up to 24 months allocated for warranty, subscriptions/licenses, and technical support services, and 30 days for delivery and implementation.

All requirements specified in the statement of work are minimal and mandatory.