RFP-2023-040-9185000-Microsoft SQL SR Setup (THIS RFP IS FOR MICROSOFT PARTNERS PROVIDING SQL SERVICES) Amdt 1 dt. 20 Sep 23- The timeline to apply for the RFP has been extended to 27 Sep 23 ,1200 hrs

UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of providing MS SQL standard license and deploy the SQL replication solution for replicating data to the DR site at UNICEF Bhopal. UNICEF India provides many services to its users in Delhi & field offices from its Data Centre at its Delhi office and Disaster Recovery (DR) site at UNICEF office in Bhopal. All services hosted in the Data Centre are replicated using Microsoft Hyper-V native replication to Bhopal office. However, the disaster recovery site does not have the Microsoft SQL setup to restore the applications from the DR site. UNICEF India has planned migration of all services to Azure, cloud platform tenant hosted by the Head Quarters by end of 2024. These services need to be maintained both at DC & DR site for High availability as well as redundancy till they are migrated to cloud. The network bandwidth between the DC & DR sites is 80 Mbps and latency of 40ms approx. We are running Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (RTM) - 15.0.2000.5 (x64) Standard Edition on Windows Server 2016 Standard 10.0 (x64) at the DC. UNICEF India wants to hire a Microsoft authorised partner to provide the required MS SQL license and setup Microsoft SQL replication between the DC & DR sites. This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission. Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering. Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.