Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-09-18
Buyer: Secretariat for European affair
Country: MK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48820000: Servers
Estimated value: 4667189 MKD
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: With this procurement is planned to purchase those equipment: 2 servers, 1 storage system and 1 server rack.
The new equipment will create virtualized environment where the already existing 17 servers will be transferred. All services is needed to be operational after finishing the implementation of procurement. With this procurement will replace old servers in some cases more 10 years old with very limited performances and storage capacity.
The economic operator should prepare a draft solution for virtualization, configuration and migration of the overall server IT structure of SEA. The draft decision should contain an action plan that will be harmonized with the contracting authority.
The virtualization solution to be used by the bidder should have and support the following functions:
With this procurement is planned to purchase those equipment: 2 servers, 1 storage system and 1 server rack.
The new equipment will create virtualized environment where the already existing 17 servers will be transferred. All services is needed to be operational after finishing the implementation of procurement. With this procurement will replace old servers in some cases more 10 years old with very limited performances and storage capacity.
The economic operator should prepare a draft solution for virtualization, configuration and migration of the overall server IT structure of SEA. The draft decision should contain an action plan that will be harmonized with the contracting authority.
The system that will be virtualized will run on 2 (two) servers that will each have 2 (two) server processors with at least 8 cores (core), the smallest operating frequency of 2.5 GHz, at least 20 MB cache memory.
The virtualization solution to be used by the bidder should have and support the following functions:
— to have active high availability of the most hypervisors and the viral machines that will be placed on the hypervisor,
— migration of virtual machines between hypervisors at a time when virtual servers are active and inactive,
The economic operator should prepare a draft migration / migration solution and perform migration / migration of existing servers and applications: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, Windows 7, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft File Server, Norton Backup, from existing physical servers to the new virtual environment.
With the procurement, we will improve the stability and performance of the mail system of the Secretariat for European Affairs and we can extend the limit of user mailboxes, which is a daily problem for the staff of the Secretariat for European Integration, because the nature of the work of the Secretariat for European Integration is coordinating and includes frequent trips to the country and abroad, and it is quite effective to have the mails from the long-time with the attachments so they can easily reach their mailboxes, while the administration of the email server will be much easier and effective, because of the lack of disk space in the mail server is needed daily to delete files that are not critical to the operation of the server.
The procurement will also solved keeping the data of the employees, which service, unfortunately, we shortened due to problems with the old servers. Now the employees of the Secretariat for European Integration will have a reliable central space where their data will be stored with a defined amount of disk space.
As a critical thing remains in the next period we will get another server that will also be involved in the virtual environment and will improve the reliability of the system. It is also critical to establish a system of data backup, which according to the possibilities will see the option to be physically separated from the system hall, but to be placed in a room that meets the minimum technical conditions.


Winner: Drustvo Za Informaticki Inziniering, Proizvodstvo i Uslugi Uvoz-Izvoz Foxit Doo Skopje
Award value: 4667189
Number of bids: 1