1.1.Minimum Technical Specifications

1. HCI solution based on hyper-converged software to deliver enterprise-class storage services using server infrastructure and without dependence on SAN Switches & HBAs.
2. The proposed HCI solution must include the latest VMware vSphere 7.x hypervisor license and VMware vCenter License
3. The proposed HCI solution should be 100% software defined without dependency on any proprietary hardware component
4. The proposed HCI solution should be appliance models and not custom configured
5. The proposed HCI solution must have minimum 2 nodes and a minimum of 8 drives per node
6. Each node must be proposed with a minimum 24 core Intel or AMD processor or higher.
7. The node must support 2 Intel or AMD processors. If the HCI software license is based on the number of processors or cores, then the bidder must propose license for 2 processors or 48 cores per node.
8. If the HCI software license is based on storage capacity or drives, then the bidder must propose the license for the maximum possible storage capacity or drives in the proposed node model.
9. Each node must be proposed with 256 GB minimum 3200 Mhz memory. Each node must have 32 DIMM slots in total
10. The proposed solution must provide a minimum of 15 TB of usable storage capacity. This capacity must be provided without including capacity benefits achieved using deduplication and compression. The capacity tier shall be based on enterprise class 10K RPM SAS SFF HDD or Mixed-Use SSD only.
11. The proposed HCI solution must include inline deduplication and inline compression and these features must be turned on during the implementation. Necessary licenses for using these features must be included and proposed by the bidder.

Any additional CPU and memory overheads created by deduplication and compression must be factored in by the bidder.

1. The proposed HCI solution must sustain one node failure and necessary provision for witness/tie-breaker must be proposed by the bidder.
2. The proposed solution should not have any single point of failure
3. Each node must have dedicated cache drive, boot drive and housekeeping drive
4. Each server node must have dedicated redundant hot swap power supplies & cooling fans.
5. Each node must have 10 Gbps or higher speed network ports in a redundant configuration. Each node shall be supplied with minimum 02 nos x PCIe Dual Port 10 GbE NIC
6. All necessary cables and transceivers must be included in the proposal.
7. The solution shall utilize the existing Dell N4032 for core networking.
8. The solution must support one-click non-disruptive rolling upgrades of HCI software and system firmware.
9. The solution must have automated call home and ticketing capability in the event of critical alerts/failures
10. The solution should have a plugin in the Hypervisor for HCI management. Administrators should be able to view, provision, manage and monitor HCI solution from the hypervisor's management console.
11. The HCI filesystem should be a scale-out distributed filesystem where the data is striped across multiple nodes where the read and write can happen across all the nodes for any given virtual machine.
12. The HCI software must support native instant, space-optimized, point-in-time snapshots. The GUI must have the capability to schedule snapshots based on various times. If the HCI software does not support native snapshots, then the bidder must include 3rd party storage- level snapshot license for a minimum of 50 VMs. Hypervisor-level snapshots must be excluded to avoid any overheads on the guest VMs.
13. The HCI software must support native rapid clones of individual Virtual Machines. If the HCI software does not support native clones, then the bidder must include 3rd party storage-level clone license for a minimum of 50 VMs. Hypervisor-level clones must be excluded to avoid any overheads on the guest VMs.
14. The HCI software must support asynchronous native replication between 2 sites at the storage level. Necessary licenses must be included in the proposal. If the HCI software does not support native replication, then the bidder must include 3rd party storage-level replication license for a minimum of 50 VMs. Hypervisor-level replication must be excluded to avoid any overheads and performance issues on the guest VMs.
15. The solution must automatically rebalance data to maintain balanced utilization of storage across the HCI nodes when storage capacity is scaled up or scaled out. The HCI nodes must automatically redistribute data equally across all nodes without migrating VMs.
16. The proposed hardware shall include 3-Year manufacturer warranty and 3-Year local technical support
17. The proposed solution should include management features such as:
    1. Monitoring of health and inventory status
    2. Display the support contract status
    3. Cross launch HW management console and HCI management console
    4. User customizable views/tiles and searching and tagging of inventory
    5. Remote management and vKVM
    6. Rest API
    7. Initiate service request in the event of critial failure/fault
    8. Automatically collect the log/support files and attach it to the service ticket
    9. Automatically raise RMA request in the event of memory failure and drive failure
    10. Compliance with hardware compatibility list (HCL)
    11. Centralized and remote firmware management and upgrade
    12. Server graphic views including live health status
    13. Mobile application for remote monitoring and management. Support for Android and IOS platforms
    14. Role based access control for different administrators
    15. IP level restrictions and whitelisting to limit access from external IP ranges

1.2.Installation, Configuration, Migration and Training

1. All professional services shall be delivered by manufacturer certified engineers only.
2. The engineer(s) shall be available onsite for the duration of the service.
3. The engineer(s) shall be available for technical support, 3 months post deployment either remote or onsite.
4. The proposed professional services delivery team engineer(s) shall be certified in Cisco, Vmware and the HCI proposed in the solution
5. The vendor MUST have at minimum the following full time OEM Certified Professional/Engineer under its payroll to provide all professional services. All relevant engineer(s) certificates and supporting documents shall be included with the proposal. Required certificates of the engineer(s):

• Cisco CCNA Certified for Routing and Switching Certified
• VMware Certified
• HCI Certified for the proposed solution

1. Perform site readiness assessment ensuring environment is ready for project commencement
2. Shall provide planning, deployment and user acceptance test details
3. Rack mounting as per manufacturer recommendation(s).
4. Check and ensure all installation pre-requisites are met
5. Powerup, network and management cabling as per manufacturer guidelines
6. Configure service segmentation on existing core network switches
7. Configure and upgrade VMware vcenter server
8. Initilize all nodes as per manufacturer best practice and upgrade to latest stable firmware
9. Install any required licenses or options
10. Migrate all existing workloads to the new infrastructure (up to 30 VMs)
11. Role based access control for different administrators
12. Configure VMware vcenter plugin for HCI management
13. Configure centralized remote management
14. OEM Certified Training on the proposed HCI for 03 Technical Engineer

• Instructor LED classroom training (physical)
• Official course materials and labs
• Exam voucher

1. On the job training for up to 03 technical person on management and administration of the system
2. Detailed documentation on the configuration and settings of the delivered system shall be provided.

2.8. Documents to be Submitted

Please submit Proposal to HCI and UPS Separately.

Below mentions documents should be submitted with the both proposals separately

1. Proposal/Quotation (inclusive of the delivery period)
2. Bid Security
3. Form 1 – Bid Form
4. Form 2 – Bidder’s Information Form
5. Company profile prepared by company/firm (Bidder)
6. Copy of Business Registration Certificate
7. Copy of Goods and Service Tax (GST) Registration certificate if applicable.
8. 8.      Goods and Service Tax clearance report if applicable (last 3 months from the date of bid submission / last quarter) - If Tax clearance report is not submitted or any due payments in Tax clearance report shall be disqualified during/after evaluation criteria.
9. Copy of Company Shareholder’s Certificate (Ministry of Economic Development).
10. Proof of financial capability: Bank Statement with stamp from bank in the letterhead of respective Bank (last 3 months from the date of bid submission) or other financial proof of capability from a relevant authority.
11. Form 3 – Experience Information Form
12. Proof of experience documents / reference letters (Documents signed by previous clients indicating the project value, duration and completion date corresponding to and supporting the above).
13. Authorized Vendor Certificate
14. Form 4- Technical Compliance Form
15. Ethical Declaration Form

Note: Failure to submit the above-mentioned documents will be subject to rejection during/after evaluation stage and late submissions of any such documents will not be entertained

2.12. Bid Evaluation Criteria (HCI Solution)

Experience in Similar Work:

-          A valid reference letter with the company letterhead on completion of similar project/works should be provided. In case if a reference letter is not available, purchase order with a delivery note, agreement with delivery note or invoice with delivery note will be accepted.

-          * The works performed should be within the last 5 years.

Similar works: Supply, delivery and installation of HCI Solution and related works

2.13. Bid Evaluation Criteria (UPS)

Experience in Similar Work:

-          A valid reference letter with the company letterhead on completion of similar project/works should be provided. In case if a reference letter is not available, purchase order with a delivery note, agreement with delivery note or invoice with delivery note will be accepted.

-          * The works performed should be within the last 5 years.

Similar works: Supply, delivery and installation of UPS

Announcement Number:

WAMCO-PRO/IUL/2022/129

Bid to:

Waste Management Corporation Limited (WAMCO)

Address:

Male’ Waste Transfer Station

Boduthakurufaanu Magu, Maafannu

Male’ Republic of Maldives.

Announcement Number:

WAMCO-PRO/IUL/2022/129

Bid to:

Waste Management Corporation Limited (WAMCO)

Address:

Male’ Waste Transfer Station

Boduthakurufaanu Magu, Maafannu

Male’ Republic of Maldives.

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Minimum Technical Specifications

Can Provide Service/Item as per Specs (Yes/No)

If NO, please mention the specification provided

1

HCI solution based on hyper-converged software to deliver enterprise-class storage services using server infrastructure and without dependence on SAN Switches & HBAs.

2

The proposed HCI solution must include the latest VMware vSphere 7.x hypervisor license and VMware vCenter License

3

The proposed HCI solution should be 100% software defined without dependency on any proprietary hardware component

4

The proposed HCI solution should be appliance models and not custom configured

5

The proposed HCI solution must have minimum 2 nodes and a minimum of 8 drives per node

6

Each node must be proposed with a minimum 24 core Intel or AMD processor or higher.

7

The node must support 2 Intel or AMD processors. If the HCI software license is based on the number of processors or cores, then the bidder must propose license for 2 processors or 48 cores per node.

8

If the HCI software license is based on storage capacity or drives, then the bidder must propose the license for the maximum possible storage capacity or drives in the proposed node model.

9

Each node must be proposed with 256 GB minimum 3200 Mhz memory. Each node must have 32 DIMM slots in total

10

The proposed solution must provide a minimum of 15 TB of usable storage capacity. This capacity must be provided without including capacity benefits achieved using deduplication and compression. The capacity tier shall be based on enterprise class 10K RPM SAS SFF HDD or Mixed-Use SSD only.

11

The proposed HCI solution must include inline deduplication and inline compression and these features must be turned on during the implementation. Necessary licenses for using these features must be included and proposed by the bidder. Any additional CPU and memory overheads created by deduplication and compression must be factored in by the bidder.

12

The proposed HCI solution must sustain one node failure and necessary provision for witness/tie-breaker must be proposed by the bidder.

13

The proposed solution should not have any single point of failure

14

Each node must have dedicated cache drive, boot drive and housekeeping drive

15

Each server node must have dedicated redundant hot swap power supplies & cooling fans.

16

Each node must have 10 Gbps or higher speed network ports in a redundant configuration. Each node shall be supplied with minimum 02 nos x PCIe Dual Port 10 GbE NIC

17

All necessary cables and transceivers must be included in the proposal.

18

The solution shall utilize the existing Dell N4032 for core networking.

19

The solution must support one-click non-disruptive rolling upgrades of HCI software and system firmware.

20

The solution must have automated call home and ticketing capability in the event of critical alerts/failures

21

The solution should have a plugin in the Hypervisor for HCI management. Administrators should be able to view, provision, manage and monitor HCI solution from the hypervisor's management console.

22

The HCI filesystem should be a scale-out distributed filesystem where the data is striped across multiple nodes where the read and write can happen across all the nodes for any given virtual machine.

23

The HCI software must support native instant, space-optimized, point-in-time snapshots. The GUI must have the capability to schedule snapshots based on various times. If the HCI software does not support native snapshots, then the bidder must include 3rd party storage- level snapshot license for a minimum of 50 VMs. Hypervisor-level snapshots must be excluded to avoid any overheads on the guest VMs.

24

The HCI software must support native rapid clones of individual Virtual Machines. If the HCI software does not support native clones, then the bidder must include 3rd party storage-level clone license for a minimum of 50 VMs. Hypervisor-level clones must be excluded to avoid any overheads on the guest VMs.

25

The HCI software must support asynchronous native replication between 2 sites at the storage level. Necessary licenses must be included in the proposal. If the HCI software does not support native replication, then the bidder must include 3rd party storage-level replication license for a minimum of 50 VMs. Hypervisor-level replication must be excluded to avoid any overheads and performance issues on the guest VMs.

26

The solution must automatically rebalance data to maintain balanced utilization of storage across the HCI nodes when storage capacity is scaled up or scaled out. The HCI nodes must automatically redistribute data equally across all nodes without migrating VMs.

27

The proposed hardware shall include 3-Year manufacturer warranty and 3-Year local technical support

28

The proposed solution should include management features such as:

1. a.      Monitoring of health and inventory status

1. b.      Display the support contract status

1. c.       Cross launch HW management console and HCI management console

1. d.      User customizable views/tiles and searching and tagging of inventory

1. e.       Remote management and vKVM

1. f.        Rest API

1. g.      Initiate service request in the event of critial failure/fault

1. h.      Automatically collect the log/support files and attach it to the service ticket

1. i.        Automatically raise RMA request in the event of memory failure and drive failure

1. j.        Compliance with hardware compatibility list (HCL)

1. k.       Centralized and remote firmware management and upgrade

1. l.        Server graphic views including live health status

1. m.    Mobile application for remote monitoring and management. Support for Android and IOS platforms.

1. n.      Role based access control for different administrators

1. o.      IP level restrictions and whitelisting to limit access from external IP ranges

Installation, Configuration, Migration and Training

1. 1.       

All professional services shall be delivered by manufacturer certified engineers only.

1. 2.       

The engineer(s) shall be available onsite for the duration of the service.

3.

The engineer(s) shall be available for technical support, 3 months post deployment either remote or onsite.

1. 4.       

The proposed professional services delivery team engineer(s) shall be certified in Cisco, Vmware and the HCI proposed in the solution

1. 5.       

The vendor MUST have at minimum the following full time OEM Certified Professional/Engineer under its payroll to provide all professional services. All relevant engineer(s) certificates and supporting documents shall be included with the proposal. Required certificates of the engineer(s):

• Cisco CCNA Certified for Routing and Switching Certified
• VMware Certified
• HCI Certified for the proposed solution

1. 6.       

Perform site readiness assessment ensuring environment is ready for project commencement

1. 7.       

Shall provide planning, deployment and user acceptance test details

1. 8.       

Rack mounting as per manufacturer recommendation(s).

1. 9.       

Check and ensure all installation pre-requisites are met

1. 10.   

Powerup, network and management cabling as per manufacturer guidelines

1. 11.   

Configure service segmentation on existing core network switches

1. 12.   

Configure and upgrade VMware vcenter server

1. 13.   

Initialize all nodes as per manufacturer best practice and upgrade to latest stable firmware

1. 14.   

Install any required licenses or options

1. 15.   

Migrate all existing workloads to the new infrastructure (up to 30 VMs)

1. 16.   

Role based access control for different administrators

1. 17.   

Configure VMware vcenter plugin for HCI management

1. 18.   

Configure centralized remote management

1. 19.   

OEM Certified Training on the proposed HCI for 03 Technical Engineer

• Instructor LED classroom training (physical)
• Official course materials and labs
• Exam voucher

1. 20.   

On the job training for up to 03 technical person on management and administration of the system

1. 21.  .

Detailed documentation on the configuration and settings of the delivered system shall be provided

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Minimum Technical Specifications

Can Provide Service/Item as per Specs (Yes/No)

If NO, please mention the specification provided

1

Supply and install minimum 1x Network Manageable 6000VA UPS with extendable battery pack

2

Install and configure UPS