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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: IT MODERNISATION (ITM) RECOVERY INCREMENT ONE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION – EXPORTING OPPORTUNITY
2. Awarding Authority: Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills acting on behalf of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: Opportunity type NATO
Industry Defence
This upcoming opportunity is for the provision of IT modernisation recovery increment one for systems integration within NATO IT system.
ITM project ambition is to transform the NATO IT infrastructure and service operations from the ‘as-is’ highly decentralized environment, with each location possessing their own networks, server rooms, Service Management and Control (SMC) capabilities, Service Desk and capability experts servicing solely the local user community.
To the ‘to-be’ target of a centrally managed, centralized IT infrastructure (Data Centres), providing services to standardized Nodes or consumer sites in two domains (Protected Business Network (PBN) and Operational Network [ON]), providing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), utilizing centralized provisioning, a centralized Enterprise Service Operations Centre (ESOC) (with a secondary site for resilience) to manage the infrastructure, and centralized or localized Service Operations.
The full NATO Enterprise scope of ITM will be achieved through a number of increments. Increment 1 (Inc1) will gradually implement NATO ON (Operational Network, NS classification) infrastructure and necessary services to all NATO Command Structure (NCS) sites in scope.
ITM-RC1 focusses on delivering early benefits to the NCS through a ‘Stream’ based implementation, incrementally reducing the need for further ITM Mitigation obsolescence management for the current NS infrastructures. Each stream delivers defined portions of the capability and subsets of outcomes to the NCS sites in the scope of the project.
The NATO ON represents a major transformation of current NCS infrastructures into a fully modernized set of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services with cyber security incorporated “by design”.
ITM-RC1 was established on the basis of reusing the high level architecture and design established by NCI Agency. The approved high-level architecture and design delivered via the previous ITM project have been refreshed by the Agency to respond to the latest security requirements as per latest NATO Security Directive.
The technical approach supports centralized management of services in order to enable the proactive monitoring of ICT services, and the ability to assess impact from network, security, applications and data incidents or changes.
5. CPV Code(s): 72000000, 72227000, 72260000, 72212000
6. NUTS code(s): UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL, UKM, UKN
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: NATO
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Value of contract £5m-50m
10. Opportunity closing date 3.4.2023.
11. Address to which they must be sent: To register your interest in the above opportunity please visit:
12. Other information: TKR-202339-EX-1557331