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 Article 18, Paragraph 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 road toll collection, processing of high 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 authorities are ensured.

Therefore, the normal functioning of the data centers is directly relevant to the resilience of the system, toll revenues, and the execution of the statutory powers vested in the RIA. The existing infrastructure was commissioned in the period 2018–2020, and currently a significant portion of the primary ICT components has reached or is about to reach end-of-life and/or end of manufacturer support.

This affects both physical hardware resources and core software platforms necessary for the operation, management, monitoring, protection, and recovery of the system. There is an increased risk of failures, inability to resolve incidents in a timely manner, 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 hardware and software in the data centers.

This necessity arises from the objective technological obsolescence of the existing physical infrastructure in both data centers, as well as the need to ensure the continuity of the ETCS for the next life cycle of the system.

The data centers provide computing power, data storage, communication connectivity, redundancy, and the physical foundation 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 individual components of the Electronic Toll Collection System's infrastructure, guaranteeing reliability, scalability, and high fault tolerance in transaction data processing. The deployment of base 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 provision directly serves the core of the payment processes of the Electronic Toll Collection System. Licensing provision includes database platforms (Oracle), virtualization and cloud security systems (VMware), and server operating systems (Red Hat). These components are critical for securing 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 a Windows OS server – 8 units
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) server – 6 units
• Storage and Archiving / Backup and Recovery Manag…