UNICC migration QA

 Request for Quotation (RFQ)

Office of Information Systems and Technology

United Nations Development Programme

Dear Vendor,

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with the countries on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. More information on UNDP can be found at our website www.undp.org.

The Office of Information Systems and Technology (OIST) in the Bureau of Management (BOM) provides ICT support to UNDP Headquarters units, Country Offices, and Regional Service Centers.  It is the body responsible for ensuring a robust ICT environment within UNDP.  OIST also provides services to UN Partner Agencies, including the integrated, corporate Web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, Atlas.

OIST/BOM seeks to engage the services of a consulting firm to carry out the migration project attached to implement a forward looking state of the art infrastructure capable of supporting Atlas with projected annual transactional growth of 30% or more for UNDP and its partner agencies business needs, reliable architecture that is capable of supporting better system availability, scalable environment to accommodate additional module implementation, and predictable overall system performance.  The scope of the project includes:

•    Infrastructure sizing and design

•    Installation and configuration of PeopleSoft instances, reverse proxies, SiteMinder authentication system, gateway server and Control M server

•    Migration of ATLAS (PeopleSoft) non-Prod, Prod, Training and DR from current hosting environment to ICC

Your offer comprising of technical proposal and financial proposal, in separate sealed envelopes, should reach the following address no later than Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:00 PM New York time.