Bechtle concludes public cloud framework agreement with BMI’s procurement office

• Strategic collaboration between Bechtle and AWS impresses largest civilian federal procurer
• Public cloud for the Federal Information Technology Centre’s (ITZBund) IT services

Neckarsulm, 12 December 2024 – Bechtle AG and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have been awarded a framework contract for the provision of public cloud services for Germany’s federal administration. The two companies will be partnering with Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (BMI) while implementation will be carried out in close collaboration with the Federal Information Technology Centre (ITZBund). The contract is worth up to 235 million euros and has been concluded for a period of 48 months, during which time Bechtle and AWS will provide dynamically scalable and elastic cloud services that fulfil the specific requirements of Germany’s federal authorities. For Bechtle, this public cloud framework agreement comes hot on the heels of a contract concluded for Apple products and represents another success for the B2G business segment, allowing the company to lay a solid and reliable foundation for the federal authorities’ digital transformation with a particular emphasis on the highest security standards and efficiency.

As the federal government’s central IT service provider, the ITZBund supports public authorities in various topics ranging from multi-cloud management to artificial intelligence on an order-related basis. The cloud services provided by Bechtle and AWS are an essential component for the implementation of ITZBund’s dedicated cloud-first strategy, and the framework agreement concluded covers a broad spectrum of cloud services from the deployment of virtual machines (VMs) and Kubernetes clusters to various database and storage solutions, plus platform, network and security services for cloud-based applications.

Clout as a multi-cloud service provider

To this end, as an AWS Solution Partner, Bechtle is providing custom consulting services as well as comprehensive lifecycle and managed services for efficient, highly-automated and transparent operation. The IT company will also take on the deployment of dynamically scalable and elastic cloud services, including setting up access and initialisation. The consulting services relate to the configuration, migration, optimisation and adaptation of the cloud infrastructure to the specific requirements of the client and also cover service integration and management.

“Being awarded the framework agreement with the BMI’s procurement office is further confirmation of our clout as a public-sector multi-cloud service provider. Working together with our partners, we create powerful, flexible and robust cloud architectures for our customers, opening the door to the opportunities presented by various cloud options,” says Michael Guschlbauer, COO, IT System House and Managed Services, Bechtle AG.

“We highly value Bechtle AG’s expertise and are looking forward to working together. Standardised public cloud services perfectly complement the ITZBund’s cloud portfolio and align with our multi-cloud strategy. We can now affordably provide users with scalable workloads that cover all security protection classes, marking an important milestone in our mission to accelerate the digital transformation of the German federal administration,” says Dr Alfred Kranstedt, Director of the Federal Information Technology Centre (ITZBund).