Invitation to Tender for the Supply and Installation of Hyper Convergence Infrastructure (HCI) for the Corporation's Disaster Recovery Site Phase II at the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC)

Posted by Kordinichi on Tue 15th Oct, 2024 - nigeriantenders.com

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) invites eligible professional companies to submit their Invitation to Tender documents for the Supply and Installation of Hyper Convergence Infrastructure (HCI) for the Corporation's Disaster Recovery Site Phase II. Interested and eligible professional companies should possess relevant qualifications and experience.

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) is an independent agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria. The purpose of the deposit insurance system is to protect depositors and guarantee the settlement of insured funds when a deposit-taking financial institution can no longer repay their deposits, thereby helping to maintain financial system stability.

We invite eligible professional companies to submit their Invitation to Tender documents for:

Title: Invitation to Tender for the Supply and Installation of Hyper Convergence Infrastructure (HCI) for the Corporation's Disaster Recovery Site Phase II

Location: Nigeria

Introduction

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) is desirous of engagement of eligible professional company with good track records of performance for the Supply and Installation of Hyper Convergence Infrastructure (HCI) for the Corporation (NDIC) Disaster Recovery site for the second phase of the initial project.
The HCI is designed to provide a simplified deployment of IT infrastructure while ensuring smart management of IT applications enterprise-wide. Hence, we aim to achieve seamless upgrades without disruption to the end users.
The HCI will ensure ease of scalability and flexibility to all authorized users in order to aid performanc driven culture in the Corporation.

Scope of Work

The NDIC is requesting for One (1) Unit of Hyper Converged Infrastructure for its Production and DR Sites to support maximum of 3 nodes failure out of 6 nodes in a cluster with NVMe SSD Model ES3000 V6 and Server Model 2288H V5 that supports both x86 and Arm processors.
Data migration from the existing Infrastructure to the HCI is also included.

Eligibility Requirements
Interested bidder(s) for the above project are required to provide the following bidding requirements for the project. All bids must be accompanied with the following:

Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Form CAC1 or CAC2, and CAC7.
Evidence of Company's Income Tax Clearance Certificate for the last three (3) years valid till 31st December, 2023; with minimum average annual turnover of N400,000,000.00
Evidence of Pension Clearance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2024 (this requirement is only applicable to bidders whose number of staff is 15 and above)
Evidence of Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Compliance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2023 (this requirement is only applicable to bidders whose number of staff is 5 and above or the bidder's annual turnover is N50m and above)
Evidence of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Clearance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2024;
Evidence of Registration on the National Database of Federal Contractors, Consultants and Service Providers by submission of Interim Registration Report (IRR) expiring on 31st December, 2024 or valid Certificate issued by BPP.
Sworn Affidavit disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Bureau of Public Procurement is a former or present Director, shareholder or has any pecuniary interest in the bidder and to confirm that all information presented in its bid are true and correct in all particulars
Company's Audited Accounts for the last three (3) years - 2021, 2022 & 2023
Reference Letter from a reputable Commercial Bank in Nigeria, indicating willingness to provide credit facility for the execution of the project when needed
Company's Profile with the Curriculum Vitae of Key Staff to be deployed for the project, including copies of their Academic/Professional qualifications such as NITDA & CPN etc.
Evidence of Authorisation of the Original Equipment/Software Manufacturer;
Evidence of current Licence/accreditation with Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) and National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
For Joint Venture/Partnership, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) should be provided indicating among others the Lead Partner (CAC, Tax Clearance Certificate, Pension Clearance Certificate, ITF Compliance Certificate, NSITF Clearance Certificate, IRR & Sworn Affidavit are compulsory for each JV partner).

Note

Documents for submission must be transmitted with a Covering/Forwarding letter under the Company/Firm's Letter Head Paper bearing amongst others, the Registration Number (RC) as issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Contact Address, Telephone Number (preferably GSM No.), and e-mail address.
The Letterhead Paper must bear the Names and Nationalities of the Directors of the Company at the bottom of the page, duly signed by the authorised officer of the firm.
Note: Technical Bid should have a Table of Content and be paginated.

Collection of Tender Documents

Interested Companies are to collect the Standard Bidding Document (SBD) from the Procurement and Management Services Department, 2nd Floor, NDIC Headquarters, Plot 447/448 Constitution Avenue, Central Business District, Abuja on evidence of payment of a non-refundable tender fee of N10,000.00 per Lot, paid Into the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation's Remita account in any reputable Commercial Bank in Nigeria.

Application Closing Date
Monday; 11th November, 2024 (11:00am).

Submission of Tender Documents
Interested and prospective bidders are to submit three (3) hard copies each of the Technical and Financial bids with a soft copy of financial bid only in MS Excel format, packaged separately in sealed envelopes and clearly marked "Technical Bid" and "Financial Bid". Thereafter, put the two sealed envelopes together in a bigger sealed envelope clearly marked "TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL BID FOR THE SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF HYPER CONVERGENCE INFRASTRUCTURE (HCI) FOR THE CORPORATION (NDIC)" and addressed to:
The Director,
Procurement & Management Services Department, (PMSD)
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC),
Plot 447/448 Constitution Avenue,
Central Business District, Abuja, Nigeria.
Furthermore, on the reverse side of each sealed envelope should bear the name and address of the bidder and drop in the designated Tender Box on the Ground floor, reception area at the Head Office Building.

Opening of Technical Bids

Only the technical bids will be opened immediately after the deadline for the submission at 11:00am on Monday, 11th November, 2024, at the Ground Floor, Visitors waiting room, NDIC Head Office Building in the presence of the bidders or their representatives, while the Financial bids will be kept un-opened.
Please, ensure that you sign the Bid Submission Register on the 2nd floor, with the Procurement and Management Services Department, as NDIC will not be held liable for misplaced or wrongly submitted bids.
Further requisite information required can be obtained from the NDIC website or e-mail address: info@ndic.gov.ng

General Information

Bids must be in English Language and signed by an official authorised by the bidder.
Bids submitted after the deadline for submission would be returned un-opened.
All costs will be borne by the bidders.
The Technical Bids will be opened in the presence of Bidders or their representatives, CSOs in the areas of Anti-Corruption and Transparency and Private Professional bodies;
Only pre-qualified bidders at technical evaluation will be invited at a later date for financial bids opening, while the financial bids of unsuccessful bidders will be returned un-opened;
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation is not bound to pre-qualify any bidder and reserves the right to annul the procurement process at any time without incurring any liabilities in accordance with Section 28 of the Public Procurement Act, 2007.