Acquisition, Implementation, Training and Support for a Microsoft Teams Certified Session Border Controller (SBC)

• Country: Cote d'Ivoire
• Summary: Acquisition, Implementation, Training and Support for a Microsoft Teams Certified Session Border Controller (SBC)
• ICT Ref No: 53225623
• Deadline: 10 Jun 2021
• Financier: African Development Bank (AfDB)
• Purchaser Ownership: Government
• Tender Value: Refer Document
• Notice Type: Tender
• Document Ref. No.: ADB/RFP/CHGS/2021/0075
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• Description:
• Request for proposals are invited for Acquisition, Implementation, Training and Support for a Microsoft Teams Certified Session Border Controller (SBC) for Direct Routing Media Bypass in Microsoft Azure 1. The African Development Bank (the “Bank”) invites proposals for the provision of goods and services as described in this Request for Proposal (RFP). To qualify for award, a bidder shall meet the qualification criteria set out in the Section 2. 2. The proposals submitted by bidders shall be received by the Bank on or before the date and time and in the manner specified in Section 2. The Bank-s requirement is set out in Section 4. 3. The Bank is an ‘AAA- rated regional multilateral development finance institution, established in 1963, with a mandate to further economic development and social progress of African countries, individually and collectively. 81 member countries including all the 54 African countries and 27 non-African countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia own the Bank. 4. The Bank's principal functions include: (i) using its resources for the financing of investment projects and programs relating to the economic and social development of its Regional Member Countries (RMCs); (ii) the provision of technical assistance for the preparation and execution of development projects and programs; (iii) promoting investment in Africa of public and private capital for development purposes; and (iv) to respond to requests for assistance in coordinating development policies and plans of RMCs. In its operations, the Bank is also required to give special attention to projects and programs that promote regional integration. 5. The Bank began its operations from its headquarters, in Abidjan, Côte d-Ivoire on July 1, 1966. For purposes of its operations the Bank also maintains field offices in certain of its RMCs. 6. The information contained in the RFP is designed to enable bidders complete and submit proposals. Bidders shall read the RFP carefully and ensure proposals comply with the instructions provided in the RFP. Bidders are required to complete and submit the Technical Proposal Questionnaire (Section 6) and Financial Proposal Questionnaire (Section 7) in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders (Section 2), RFP Data Sheet (Section 3), Description of Goods / Technical Specification / Terms of Reference (Section 4), Eligibility Criteria (Section 8) and the Contract Conditions (Section 9). The Bank shall evaluate proposals in accordance with the evaluation criteria and methodology (Section 5). The Bank is not bound by any other terms and conditions unless agreed in writing by the Bank. Procurement Ethics, Integrity, Anti-corruption and Fairness 2.1. It is the Bank-s policy that bidders/suppliers to the Bank observe the highest standard of ethics during the procurement process and execution of such contracts. In pursuance of this policy, the Bank shall reject a proposal if it determines that the bidder, or any of its personnel, agent, consultant, subcontractor or service provider, has, directly or indirectly, engaged in “Corrupt-, “Fraudulent-, “Collusive”, “Coercive” or “Obstructive” practices in competing for the contract in question. These terms are as defined in the General Terms and Conditions (Appendix 9B). The Bank may also declare the bidder ineligible for participation in future procurement and award of contracts, either indefinitely or for a stated period of time. 2.2. A bidder/supplier who offers any gift of any value to Bank staff will be considered to be influencing the procurement process. The Bank shall reject a proposal if it determines that any such gift has been offered. Joint Venture 4.1. Where a joint venture or any other form of partnership (JV) approach is proposed, bidders are required to provide full details of the JV and nature of relationship with other JV members. Bidders forming a JV shall nominate an authorized representative of the JV (duly evidenced by submitting a power of attorney signed by a legally authorized representative of the JV) who shall have the authority to conduct all business for and on behalf of all members and enter into the contract. Each member shall meet the eligibility criteria as defined in the Presidential Directive. 4.2. A JV shall comprise no more than four members. At least one member shall provide 40% of the contract sum and each of the other members shall provide at least 20% of the contract sum. 4.3. All members shall be jointly and severally liable for the performance of any resulting contract Bid Prices 23.1. The prices submitted by bidders shall, except insofar as it is otherwise provided in the contract, include all labour, supervision, materials, transportation, insurance, profit, general risks, liabilities and obligations set out or implied in the contract. 23.2. The Bank shall award the contract based on value for money that takes into account the whole life costing (i.e., life-cycle costs of the goods and services, maintenance, spare parts, warranty, training, disposal, shipment, insurance) of the requirement. Detailed SBC FEATURES Features Value Capacities Max signaling sessions 24000 Max Media sessions 24000 Max SRTP-RTP Sessions 10000 Max Registered users 75000 Security Access Control DoS/DDoS line rate protection, bandwidth throttling, dynamic blacklisting VOIP FIREWALL RTP pinhole management, rogue RTP detection and prevention, SIP message policy, advanced RTP latching Encryption and Authentication TLS, DTLS, SRTP, HTTPS, SSH, client/server SIP Digest authentication, RADIUS Digest Intrusion Detection System Detection and prevention of VoIP attacks, theft of service and unauthorized access interoperability SIP Interworking 3xx redirect, REFER, PRACK, session timer, early media, call hold, delayed of Transport Mediation SIP over UDP/TCP/TLS/WebSocket/SCTP, IPv4 / IPv6, RTP / SRTP (SDES/DTLS) Transcoding and Vocoders Coder normalization including transcoding, coder enforcement and re-prioritization, extensive vocoder support: G.711, G.723.1, G.726, G.729A/B, GSM-FR, AMR-NB, AMR-WB (G.722.2), SILKNB/WB, Opus-NB/WB Signal Conversion DTMF/RFC 2833/SIP, T.38 fax, packet-time conversion Features Value WebRTC Gateway Interworking between WebRTC devices and SIP networks. Supports WebSocket, Opus, VP8 video coder, lite ICE, DTLS, RTP multiplexing, secure RTCP with feedback Voice Quality and SLA Call Admission Control Based on bandwidth, session establishment rate, number of connections/registrations Standalone Survivability Standalone Survivability Impairment Mitigation Packet Loss Concealment, Dynamic Programmable Jitter Buffer, Silence Suppression/Comfort Noise Generation, RTP redundancy, broken connection detection High Availability SBC 1+1 high availability with active calls preservation Quality of Experience Access control and media quality enhancements based on QoE and bandwidth utilization Voice Enhancement Transrating, RTCP-XR, Acoustic echo cancellation, replacing voice profile due to impairment detection, Fixed & dynamic voice gain control SIP Routing Routing Methods Request URL, IP address, FQDN, ENUM, advanced LDAP, third-party routing control through REST API Advanced Routing Criteria QoE, bandwidth, SIP message (SIP request, coder type, etc.), Layer-3 parameters Redundancy Detection of proxy failures and subsequent routing to alternative proxies Routing Features Least-cost routing, call forking, load balancing, E911 gateway support, emergency call detection and prioritization Cloud Environments Private Cloud Public Cloud Vmware vSphere Microsoft Azure
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 Tender Notice