Status

Awarded


Compugen Inc.

Closing Date

prefer to receive Quotations on or before March 31, 2021.


Revised June 7, 2021

Contact

Richard D. Oppelt
Manager, Procurement Services
Finance Department
Tel:  (604) 590-7274
Email:  purchasing@surrey.ca

REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS

SPECIFICATIONS OF GOODS AND SCOPE OF SERVICES

The Contractor shall furnish all necessary labour, materials, products, equipment and services for the supply, delivery, install and configuration of HyperFlex Infrastructure hardware, software, network and other infrastructure components (the “Goods and Services”) and in accordance with this Agreement, that are needed to set up for the new HyperFlex Infrastructure. These services are to deliver on the objective of minimal delivery and completion dates, while cognizant of budgetary constraints, and focusing on the delivery and completion within the time scales required by the City. Contractor shall assist City Information Technology staff to rack, stack, setup and configure the operating environment. Contractor will also assist City Information Technology staff to test and verify that the operating environment is configured to meet the expectations of the City’s project team.

The Contractor will assist the City with the following:

• Provide technical assistance in the form of general advice and guidance to the City specifically for installation, integration and configuration of the Cisco HyperFlex Cluster solution;
• Complete the HyperFlex Configuration Development Questionnaire (Cisco HF-CDQ);
• Provide configuration support in the form of guidance and assistance to the City with regards to the Cisco HyperFlex Software and feature sets;
• Provide Cisco HyperFlex knowledge transfer and mentoring of operational and security best practices;
• Install HX platform software in the case where the City is using VMware ESXi 6.x hypervisor environment;
• Test the Cisco HyperFlex system (LAN, HyperFlex servers and Storage elements combined);
• Conduct a pre-installation design workshop to review and identify networking requirements, cabling, equipment installation, power, system and software installation, etc.;
• Unpack and rack equipment (controllers, disk shelves, switches, etc.);
• Perform basic system installation and configuration as per the HF-CDQ). Integrate into existing VCenter;
• Installation and configuration of InterSite;
• Provide as-built, design, and configuration documentation.

INFORMATION MEETING

An information meeting will be hosted by the City Representative to discuss the City’s requirements under this RFQ (the “Information Meeting”). While attendance is at the discretion of Contractors, Contractors who do not attend will be deemed to have attended the Information Meeting and to have received all of the information given at the Information Meeting. At the time of issuance of this RFQ a meeting has been scheduled as follows:

When: Monday, March 22, 2021
Time: 2:30 p.m., local time
Where: Via Microsoft Teams

*** Contractors should email the Purchasing Section at [purchasing@surrey.ca] on or before March 19, 2021 for details of the Microsoft Teams meeting.

Note: No minutes of the information meeting will be provided

ADDENDA

If the City determines that an amendment is required to this RFQ, the City Representative will issue a written addendum by posting it on the BC Bid Website at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca and the City Website at www.surrey.ca (collectively, the “Websites”), and upon posting, any addenda will form part of this RFQ. It is the responsibility of Contractors to check the Websites for addenda. The only way this RFQ may be added to, or amended in any way, is by a formal written addendum. No other communication, whether written or oral, from any person will affect or modify the terms of this RFQ or may be relied upon by any Contractor. By delivery of a Quotation, the Contractor is deemed to have received, accepted and understood the entire RFQ, including any and all addenda.

All inquiries related to this RFQ should be directed in writing to the contact person named above.