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Please clarify from what countries bidders may participate in this tender. Is it allowed for countries [...]
The tenderers domiciled in the European Union and European Economic Area are eligible. However, tenderers [...]
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1. Which certificates will be considered as equivalents to MCSD SharePoint Applications Solutions Developer [...]
Frontex requires a specific named certificate. The scope of the certification, the certification criteria [...]
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Hello, You indicated for one of the requirements that 2 seniors hold MCSD SharePoint Applications Solutions [...]
Frontex requires a specific named certificate. The scope of the certification, the certification criteria [...]
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How Many Servers are there in SharePoint Farm?
Currently there are nine (9) farm servers except the AD and Exchange ones.
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How Big is a Support team?
Currently Frontex does not dedicate any team to merely SharePoint support. There is a 1st line support [...]
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Number of Application, Sites, Site collections?
The tenderer is kindly requested to detail the question. Currently Frontex uses multiple web applications [...]
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Version of SharePoints in your environment?
The version of the current SharePoint platform (MS SharePoint Enterprise 2013) is listed in the Appendix [...]
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Number of Environments (Production, staging, QA, Dev, etc)?
Currently Frontex operates the following environments: Production, UAT, Staging and Development environments [...]
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Do you have DR, BCP in place?
The tenderer is kindly requested to redraft the questions to make them more precise. Currently Frontex [...]
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How may Intranet you have?
The tender is kindly request to redraft the question as it is not understood.
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How many complex, medium, low level applications?
The tenderer is kindly requested to provide criteria for allocation of the applications to the listed [...]
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How many Custom Application
The tenderer is requested to explain his understanding of the term Custom Application. There are 45 business [...]
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How many users? How many internal users?
There are 318 staff members who are the permanent users of intranet and several contractors who shall [...]
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How many locations? How many offices you have?
Currently Frontex operates permanently in the Headquarters in Poland and two Frontex Liaison Offices: [...]
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Do you have any Home grown SharePoint App?
Current number of custom Frontex applications developed for SharePoint is 16.
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Is there any eForm using InfoPath, Adobe, Access, K2, Nintex, etc?
eForms using InfoPath are used in some of SharePoint custom applications.
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How many Custom Solutions Deployed?
Current number of custom Frontex applications developed for SharePoint is 16.
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How many Legacy applications you have?
The tenderer is kindly asked to clarify the question. When it comes to SharePoint there is one application [...]
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How many and what type of workflows are there?
Currently Frontex uses 7 workflows developed on SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform and 18 workflows developed [...]
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Tools used in Workflow(SharePoint OOTB, SP Designer, Visual Studio, Nintex, K2, etc)?
Currently Frontex uses SharePoint OOTB, SP Designer and Visual Studio workflows. However this characteristic [...]
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Any Image capturing Application?
Currently Frontex does not use any application for image capturing in integration with SharePoint.
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Which tool used for Image capturing?
Currently Frontex does not use any application for image capturing in integration with SharePoint.
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Do you have any migration tool (Metalogix, ShareGate, etc)?
Currently Frontex does not use any 3rd party migration tools for SharePoint.
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How do you deploy applications(using 3rd party tool, PowerShell, etc)
Currently Frontex uses *.wsp packages and PowerShell scripts for deployments.
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Are you using single sign on using Windows or any 3rd party tool?
Currently Frontex does not uses any 3rd party tool for single sign on.
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What type different system does integration with SP Applications?
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Do you have any Enterprise service Bus for Integration like Sonic, Biztalk, etc)
Currently Frontex does not use any integration bus.
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How many web services are there?
The tenderer is kindly requested to narrow down the question. Currently Frontex uses large number of [...]
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Is it a one way or two way data integration with SP?
Currently there is one way data integration implemented from other applications/services to SharePoint [...]
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Do you have SSIS or DTS package for data integration?
No. Frontex does not use SSIS or DTS for data integration.
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Do you have any home grown Mobile App?
Currently Frontex does not use any self-developed mobile applications.
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Which Mobile platform do you support?
The list of mobile platforms used in Frontex is provided in Appendix 2 Current ICT Baseline. The primary [...]
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How many sites are responsive?
Frontex has not been designing SharePoint solutions in responsive web design until now.
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Do you use any app from App Store for SharePoint?
Frontex does not use currently any App Store for SharePoint.
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Which Analytical tools do you use?
Assuming that the question refers to web analytics tool the reply is that Frontex uses WebLog Expert [...]
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What information you track in analyzer?
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How many type BI tool are used in application(SSRS, Excel Services, PowerBI?
Frontex uses currently SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Visual Analytics, BI solution, which uses SSRS is [...]
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How many Dashboards in SharePoint
Frontex does not use any dashboards in SharePoint until now.
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Any thrid party tool or customization used for Dashboard?
Frontex does not use any dashboards in SharePoint until now.
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How many Applications need 24x7 support?
Currently there is no SharePoint application in production mode that requires continuous support.
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How many Applications need 16x7, 8x7, and 8x5 support?
Currently all SharePoint applications are supported during business days in business hours.
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Which ticketing system you use?
Currently Frontex uses ManageEngine Plus Service Desk 9.1 as a ticketing system.
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How many Applications required L1, L2, L3 or All support?
The tenderer is kindly requested to narrow down the question and clarify its scope. By default all applications [...]
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What project methodology you use?
Frontex approach and requirements regarding project management are presented in the Terms of Reference [...]
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What is plan for SharePoint Online?
All Frontex exploits SharePoint on premise. Currently there is no intention to migrate to any type of [...]
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Do you have any infrastructure on Azure? What is future plan?
All Frontex exploits SharePoint on premise. Currently there is no intention to migrate to any type of [...]
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What is the version of Exchange, and outlook?
Versions of MS Exchange servers are listed in Appendix 2 Current ICT Baseline. Version of MS Outlook [...]
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What applications are using in Office365?
All Frontex systems are hosted on premise. MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint from Office365 are used [...]
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on p. 4 of Annex I, it reads "c) contains a letter of intent by each subcontractor stating its intention [...]
Yes, your understanding of this requirement related to subcontracting is correct.
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Under other Framework contracts, we already provided QTM services from our premises. Would that be possible [...]
Yes, QT&M assignments may be performed in the contractor’s premises in case such a place of performance [...]
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