Basic Information

Reference Number

0000130033

Issuing Organization

Business Development Bank of Canada

Owner Organization

Solicitation Type

RFPQ - Request for Pre-Qualification (Formal)

Solicitation Number

RL-20180921

Title

Tender Notice for Prequalification - Platform as a Service Solution (PaaS)

Source ID

PP.CO.QC.981867.C100263

Agreement Type

Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)

Details

Location

Canada, Quebec, Montréal

Delivery Point

by email / par courriel

Purchase Type

One Time Only- Delivery Date:Q1-2019

Description

BDC is looking for an open source, cloud-native application, platform as a service (the “PaaS”). The main drivers of this initiative include:

Modernization of enterprise middleware,
Evolution of software delivery,
Transition to secure hybrid-cloud infrastructure,
Ensure end to end security, and
Promote independence from vendors.

The BDC PaaS will support Agile concepts such as:

Continuous integration and continuous delivery,
Teams with end-to-end responsibility and accountability (Dev-Sec-Ops),
Deployment of same artifact across all life cycle stages, and
Architecture and design of resilient applications that benefits from characteristics of a cloud-based infrastructure (e.g. elasticity, workload isolation, monitoring, etc.).

BDC intends to deploy cloud-native services that will interface with other existing systems. These services will use cloud-native patterns such as a) 12 Factors applications, b) Micro-Services Architecture and c) Event Driven Architecture. Cloud-native services will, in a first phase, be developped in MENDIX (www.mendix.com) and/or .NET.

The PaaS will be hosted at two BDC data centers located in the greater Montréal area. BDC uses vSphere as its IaaS which supports all existing applications. See diagram A for more details. BDC’s vision involves independent development teams, each responsible for the end to end life cycle and full technological stack of one or more services. In addition, the PaaS will be managed and operated by BDC’s personnel with 3rd level support provided by the vendor regardless if it is on premise or private cloud. Finally, the PaaS should provide services such as: a) Management and Monitoring, b) Service Mesh, c) 3rd party marketplace, d) Security, among others. See diagram B for more details.

Dates

Publication

2018/09/21 11:48:26 AM EDT

Bid Intent

Not Available

Question Acceptance Deadline

2018/09/26 03:00:00 PM EDT

Questions are submitted online

Closing Date

2018/10/05 03:00:00 PM EDT

Contact Information

Robert Lavallee

514-669-9743

Robert.LAVALLEE@bdc.ca

procurement submissions

procurementsubmissions@bdc.ca

Bid Submission Process

Bid Submission Type

Physical Bid Submission

Additional Bidding Instructions

Price not required

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