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Call for tenders' details

Tenderers are requested to note that the closing date for submission of tenders has been extended to 03/07/2020 at 12:00 and the opening of tenders will now take place on 06/07/2020 at 14:00.
Title:
Provision of External Service Providers for IT Software Development, Implementat...
Contracting authority:
European Medicines Agency (EMA)
TED publication date:
07/05/2020
Time limit for receipt of tenders:
03/07/2020
Status:
Closed
Status
08/06/2020
09/06/2020
English (en)
Question details
Award question 4.2, standard platform
For question 4.2 of the award criteria questionnaire, the tenderer is requested to describe how he would undertake a transformation of the application to a standard platform. What a standard platform is not explicitly defined in the RFP (but may be well known to the current contractor). The only clue seems to be the sentence “This includes the design of solutions based on low code or SaaS/aPaaS application development platforms” found in the Tender Specs, section 5 “ Subject of the tender”. Please can you further specify what is meant by "standard platform" so that we can elaborate a sound response? What is missing from the currently developed application to be considered as a standard platform? On what basis is such a transformation considered to be an alternative to refactoring? Shall it be also assumed that it cannot include any kind of refactoring or DevOps-related transformations? Thank you.
09/06/2020
Examples of low-code SaaS/PaaS application platforms are Azure Dynamics365, Salesforce and SAP. The difference between the above examples and the current application is that at present, user requirements are being developed from the ground-up. Using a low-code platform will mainly require configuration of the platform’s technical capabilities to satisfy the user needs. In doing so, it is expected that user requirements would need to be adapted to fit the capabilities of the platform. Given the above, adopting a standard platform will require changes to the external behaviour of the system. Such changes are not considered refactoring.