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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: IDENTITY AND ACCESS CARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM REQUEST FOR INFORMATION – 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: Supply contract
4. Description: Opportunity type NATO
Industry Defence
Identify currently available commercial-off-the-shelf solutions to meet the requirements for an identity and access card management system.
NCI Agency requests the assistance of the nations and their industry to identify currently available commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions to meet the requirements for an identity and access card management system.
Responses shall in all cases include the name of the firm, telephone number, e-mail address, designated point of contact, and a NATO UNCLASSIFIED description of the capability available and its functionalities. This shall include any restrictions (for example. export controls) for direct procurement of the various capabilities by NCI Agency.
The NCI Agency reference for this Market Survey Request is MS-CO-115678-IAMS, and all correspondence and submissions concerning this matter should reference this number.
Responses are due back to NCI Agency no later than 5pm Brussels time on 24 October 2022.
Any response to this request shall be provided on a cost-free and voluntary basis. Responses to this request, and any information provided within the context of this survey, including but not limited to pricing, quantities, capabilities, functionalities and requirements will be considered as indicative and informational only and will not be considered as binding on the participant or on NATO within the context of any future acquisition.
The NCI Agency is not liable for any expenses incurred by firms in conjunction with their participation in this Market Survey and this Survey shall not be regarded as a commitment of any kind concerning future procurement of the items described.
MARKET SURVEY REQUIREMENTS FOR IDENTITY AND ACCESS CARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Scope
The NCI Agency is performing a market survey in order to identify currently available and non-developmental identity and access cards management systems/solutions on the market which fulfil the requirements presented below. At this stage, NCI Agency is seeking to evaluate all the available systems/solutions on the market which can provide technological, robust, capable and cost effective solution to NATO.
The system shall be capable of being deployed and used within NATO, NATO nations and during NATO deployed operations, and only those software solutions which have intellectual property rights fully residing in NATO member countries will be considered.
Current NCI Agency identity and access management solution
The Agency is currently using an identity and access card management system based on COTS software customised to meet Agency needs.
The workflows and forms used to capture and present data within the current platform cover a wide range of both size and complexity. Current system provides integration options (receiving and sending data) with third party systems via web services, custom SQL tables/databases and custom protocol integration.
Current system supports PKI and PIV2, replication of data between multiple instances.
The current platform is deployed operationally on a single network as well as in a development environment in Microsoft Azure. In production there is a need of distributing the load to the application servers by utilizing a load balancer and high availability databases. Currently the architecture is a client-server architecture with the dedicated clients, application server, web application and integration with other systems.
Desired requirements/functionalities
The goal of this survey is to identify and evaluate suitable COTS identity and access card management systems which already include the acquisition and management of personnel biometrics (minimum photographs and signatures), and which could issue identity cards for the use of the NCI Agency and other NATO entities.
Please refer to Annex D of this Market Survey and note the defined ‘Must Have’ requirements.
Life cycle information
The solution/system design should minimise total system life cycle costs, including its future Operations and Maintenance (O&M, consumables, etc…).
The software and hardware environments within NATO are currently in the process of being upgraded by the IT modernisation project based on a modern data centre approach. However, note that the majority of the NATO systems run on Microsoft/LINUX operating systems and must be capable of running in a virtual environment (VMWare Hypervisor).
5. CPV Code(s): 48000000, 48514000, 48510000, 48100000
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 21.10.2022 (00:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: TKR-2022921-EX-1884430