DELIVERY OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR THE PAYMENT SOLUTION INFRASTRUCTURE

The subject of this public procurement is “Delivery of hardware and software for the payment solution infrastructure”, for the needs of the National Toll Administration, pursuant to Art. 18, para. 1, item 1 of the Public Procurement Act. The Electronic Toll Collection System (ETCS) is a critical national information system through which continuous processes of toll collection, processing of large volumes of transactions, law enforcement and control activities, data exchange with other systems, integration with payment and back-office systems, and provision of services to users, carriers, National Service Providers, and control bodies are ensured. Therefore, the normal functioning of the data centers is directly relevant to the sustainability of the system, toll revenue, and the fulfillment of the API's statutory powers. The existing infrastructure was put into operation in the period 2018–2020, and currently a significant part of the core ICT components has reached or is about to reach the end of its life cycle and/or end of manufacturer support. This affects both physical hardware resources and the basic software platforms necessary for the operation, management, monitoring, protection, and recovery of the system. There is an increased risk of failures, inability to promptly resolve incidents, and lack of updates. In this regard, the objective of the public procurement is to deliver hardware and software for the payment solution infrastructure as a first step towards replacing the hardware and software in the data centers. This necessity arises from the objective technological obsolescence of the existing physical infrastructure in the two data centers, as well as from the need to ensure the continuity of the ETCS for the next life cycle of the system. The data centers provide the computing power, data storage, communication connectivity, redundancy, and physical basis for all central applications, databases, and back-office processes of the ETCS, and limited compatibility with new versions and potential vulnerabilities in the environment. The implementation of a modern communication architecture based on Nexus and Catalyst switches, along with APIC controllers, is critical for building a software-defined network (SDN). The new equipment will ensure high-speed connectivity (up to 400G) and traffic routing between the individual components of the Electronic Toll Collection System infrastructure, guaranteeing reliability, scalability, and high fault tolerance in processing transactional data. The implementation of basic operating systems (Windows Server) and relational database management platforms (SQL Server Enterprise) is key to ensuring the stability, performance, and security of the transactional environment. The selected software directly serves the core payment processes of the Electronic Toll Collection System. License provision includes database platforms (Oracle), virtualization and cloud security systems (VMware), and server operating systems (Red Hat). These components are critical for ensuring the transactional processes of the payment solution and for building a stable core infrastructure for the needs of the National Toll Administration. The procurement aims to deliver the following items: • Software solutions and licenses - server operating system licenses 384 units - user access licenses 20 units - Enterprise class server database platform licenses 8 units • Virtualization platform - VMware Cloud Foundation or equivalent 384 units - VMware Cloud Foundation Firewall Security or equivalent 384 units - VMware Live Recovery Protected VM or equivalent 8 units - VMware Cloud Foundation - vSAN or equivalent 2 units • Oracle Linux KVM Physical CPU Pair virtualization platform or equivalent 6 units • License for specialized software for collecting system logs on servers...