Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank (EIB) is looking for assistance in the development, implementation, support and maintenance of its multiple systems and applications. The tender is divided into six different lots, each covering a distinct sector. According to the tender document issued by EIB, the bank will sign multiple framework agreements with up to five contractors for each lot. Cascade and/or parallel mechanisms will be applied to the execution of the projects. There is a 48-month completion timeframe and an estimated budget of €16.4–33.3 million for purchases for the duration of the framework agreement. For all lots, framework agreements will have an initial duration of two years with the possibility of two one-year extensions, states the document.
The first lot covers the maintenance, support and development of EIB’s off-the-shelf packages, including Wallstreet Suite from Wall Street Systems, Swift Alliance, Fiserv’s Accurate NXG and market data (mainly Reuters and Bloomberg). The bank estimates the value of the contract over four years at €4–8.8 million.

The second lot is for the maintenance, support and development of EIB’s document management system, including Livelink from Open Text Corporation, which has been rolled out across the entire bank. Livelink’s modules include content lifecycle management (CLM), Livelink Explorer and a number of EIB-specific customisations, such as interfaces to other systems at the bank. This lot is valued at €1.9–3.84 million.

The third lot is for assistance in the maintenance, support and development of the EIB’s 38 small-scale legacy applications, based on BMC Remedy from BMC Software, Sybase PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, MS Office and open source PHP-based solutions among others. The bank puts an estimate of €880,000–1.76 million on the contract over four years.

The fourth lot covers work on EIB’s strategic enterprise application integration (EAI) platform based on IBM Websphere. The platform is fully integrated with web services running on JBoss enterprise service bus (ESB). All web service communication is centralised through the EAI, which maintains a repository of all available web services. It handles transaction-oriented and batch processing and delivery between EIB’s business applications. The platform is installed at the bank’s headquarters and is not connected to the external offices. The value of the contract is estimated at €1.7–3.6 million.

Lot number five is for the maintenance, support and development of EIB’s specific in-house applications used for lending, treasury, capital markets, risk management and reference data, and administrative services. The required development work will be based mainly on Java J2EE. The contract is worth €7.2–12.6 million.

The sixth lot covers services in the field of business analysis, testing, change management and project management. EIB states that these services may be required in all functional areas of the bank. The projected value of the four-year agreement is €650,000–2.6 million.

The candidates should present a minimum of three relevant and verifiable references of assignments carried out within the last two years in the domain of the lot concerned. In terms of financials, one of the stipulations is that no client should represent more than 50 per cent of the tenderer’s turnover.

The tender documents can be drawn up in English or French and should be submitted before midnight on 25th October 2010.

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