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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: PROVIDE DCIS MISSION EXECUTION ANCHOR CAPABILITY – 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
IFB-CO-423230-MAF- Provide DCIS mission execution anchor capability
Project objective This project “Provide DCIS mission execution anchor capability” will deliver two mission anchor functions (MAF). The MAF services will be offered over two locations, Brunssum (NLD) and Lago Patria (ITA). Each will host the services for NATO missions using a common NATO secret (NS) and NATO unclassified (NU) domain but separate mission domains, with redundancy at each location and resiliency with service availability being provided from either location, for all domains, in a cloud architecture. The systems to be delivered, hereafter referred to as the DCIS MAF, will give NATO deployed forces access to NATO’s strategic communication infrastructure and provide secure and non-secure voice, video and data services. This project will complement and interoperate with the current and future generation of DCIS points of presence   (POPs), for example, Firefly and Dragonfly, and will be the anchor point to connect the DCIS with the static environment (NATO Command Structure) for operations, missions and exercises. Scope of work The contract scope is for the provision by the contractor of the following activities
project management
system design (including a first article system test
procurement of units and integration
integrated logistics support
configuration management
quality assurance
testing and acceptance
security accreditation
The successful bidder will be required to handle and store classified information up to the level of NATO restricted.
5. CPV Code(s): 72300000, 72000000
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: Not provided.
10. Opportunity closing date 25.4.2024.
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: TKR-202444-EX-1723600