Germany – Maintenance of information technology software – Mainframe Infrastruktur-Wartungsservice bei der Deutschen Bundesbank

The Deutsche Bundesbank, as the central bank of Germany, is part of the European System of Central Banks and belongs to the public administration. As the supreme federal authority, its tasks, in addition to supplying trade and banks with cash and managing currency reserves, include refinancing and clearing for credit institutions, as well as defining and implementing measures to ensure price stability. In its role as a provider within the framework of 4CB for the European System of Central Banks, the high-availability payment and securities applications, namely TARGET2 and TARGET2-Securities, are provided on the mainframe of the Deutsche Bundesbank. To ensure the high availability of the associated infrastructure of the national z/OS systems and the European z/OS systems of the Eurosystem Market Infrastructure Platform (EMIP), the software products of the z/OS systems must be regularly maintained and updated to the current version. In addition, security-relevant updates must be regularly applied to the z/OS systems. With this award, the Deutsche Bundesbank wishes to commission a service provider to independently take over the maintenance of these z/OS systems as a service. The service will be taken over when the contractor has accompanied a maintenance cycle of the current service provider. The Deutsche Bundesbank plans a maximum of 9 months for the takeover of the maintenance service.