TERENA Certificate Service 2014

Hoeveelheid of omvang

Bidders are invited to submit an offer for a managed TLS certificate service that will allow the NRENs acting as service providers to their constituencies to provide the European education and research community with a functionally unlimited number of certificates as described in the technical requirements for this tender.

Aanvullende informatie

Any questions and remarks concerning the Call for Proposals must be sent to the liaison person through e-mail. Questions must be asked before 14 March 2014, 12:00, CET. TERENA reserves the right not to answer questions received after this deadline. Answers that are considered to be corrections or extensions to the Call for Proposals will be anonymised and will be published on the TERENA website and sent to all Parties to which TERENA has sent this Call for Proposals. Both answers and questions will be issued no later than 21.3.2014, 12:00, CET.

Under the Common Procurement Vocabulary (‘CPV’), i.e. a European classification system for public procurement, the TCS qualifies as a ‘certification service' (Classification 79132000-8 of the CPV). Because certification services in turn are listed in Annex IIB to the Procurement Directive the TCS is to be regarded as a B service. The Directive prescribes only very limited regulations for tendering Annex 2B services, i.e. common rules in the technical field and certain publication rules. Due to the cross border character of the service (and the related cross border interest of bidders to participate in this tender procedure), TERENA has decided to:

— Send this Call for Proposals to all established CA providers that are currently known to TERENA;

— Publish the Call for Proposals on the TERENA website;

— Advertise the tender procedure on TenderNed and TED.

TERENA thus creates a level playing field in tendering the requested service. TERENA emphasises that the procedure does not classify as one of the award procedures laid down in the Directive and that such was expressly not the intention of TERENA.