Tender Advertisement #1217421

Call for Applications (OPEN TENDER)

PIFS PREFERRED SUPPLIERS LISTING FOR ICT EQUIPMENT AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Background

The current Preferred Suppliers List is long due overdue as the ICT Team has always had some informal list of Suppliers. For the ICT team to maintain its Service levels we are looking at what our current and potential new vendors can provide. The selection of a PSL will ensure compliance with procurement policies and will be for 3 years. Please refer to Tender Terms of Reference.

Professional & consultancy services for IT services are required for fall-back support during an outage of critical services such as:

i. Email services
ii. User authentication
iii. Storage and high availability solution
iv. Meeting Support services
v. Firewall and switching services

Purpose

The purpose of this tender is to provide PIFS with a renewed list of vendors, and professional consultants who have the capacity in-house to provide/supply services and equipment(s) that is required without going through a tender process.
The purpose of the tender is for vendors and professional consultants to provide competitive pricing on their proposed services and products as per the terms of reference submitted with this tender.

Scope of Work

To provide competitive pricing on services and products as set out under the Terms of Reference (TOR) document which can be downloaded from www.tenders.net/forumsec.

HOW TO APPLY

Submissions should be entitled:

Call for Applications – Preferred Supplier Listing for ICT Equipment and Professional Services

Method of Submissions:

Interested Vendors are encouraged to provide written submissions to address the eligibility criteria and response, also should attach their company resume.

Submissions must be forwarded in PDF format following the instructions at www.tenders.net/forumsec

Note: Tenders must be submitted with clear labelling of the technical offer and the financial offer. The Technical Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “A. Technical Offer”. Financial Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “B. Financial Offer”.

The electronically submitted documents should be converted to the PDF format.

Deadline for Submissions:

Submissions need to reach the Secretariat by 4pm (Fiji Time) Friday 30 July 2021.

Late or incomplete tenders will not be considered.

Questions and Answers

All queries or request for information must be submitted via the Question and Answer Forum at www.tenders.net/forumsec . Tenderers may submit questions in writing to the mentioned Question and Answer Forum before the stated “deadline for requesting clarifications” 16 July 2021.

The Secretariat has no obligation to provide clarification after this date.

Note: The Secretariat will not be responsible for non-receipt/non-delivery of the Bid documents due to any reason whatsoever.

Any complaints regarding the Secretariat’s tender must be directed to the following email: Tender.Complaints@forumsec.org. This email address will forward your complaint to a person that is independent and removed from the tender process. Complaints must be well founded and should not be used as a mechanism for notifying displeasure with the outcome of a tender award. Further information on making a complaint can be found on the Policies & Information page at http://tenders.forumsec.org.

In the event that further information is required by the Secretariat in relation to the tender for consultancy, the Secretariat reserves the right to seek the required information without the need for calling for resubmission of proposals.