Procurement Advert

CDC Server room upgrade; REF CDC 2013- EBB

The US Embassy Kampala invites interested firms to submit proposal for upgrade of the server rooms at CDC building- inside Uganda Virus compound, Entebbe.

Back ground;
The CDC Server room located on the Entebbe campus inside the Mouse House building has outgrown its capacity.  The room consists of two separate compartments.  One compartment houses the servers and the second compartment an IT Office.   The server room needs to be expanded to incorporate additional equipment for infrastructure growth, power consumption requirements, maintenance access and environmental needs (cabling and wiring standards).   Currently performing any work inside the server room is difficult to nearly impossible.  Examples: cables are intertwined to the point where isolating a faulty cable is extremely time consuming because of space constraints, removing and installing servers is very difficult, power stability is a major issues as dedicated circuits are not available.  

Basic industry server room standards address room size specifications, equipment power and spacing standards, fire prevention, cooling, electrical standards and security.  These standards are currently not in place.

The objective of the project is to bring the CDC Uganda server room up to acceptable industry standards in the area of adequate space, server equipment racks and spacing, power and electrical standards, cooling, fire prevention and security.   The immediate benefits to upgrading the server room will be realized in optimal performance from infrastructure enterprise systems not overheating, significantly reduced maintenance and troubleshooting times, equipment protection from inadequate power and reduced replacement cost of faulty equipment. The long term benefits will be realized in an increased ability to expand equipment installation with new technology, lower equipment failure rates which directly reflect in lower cost of ownership and longevity of system life cycle

Issue date: Feb 04, 2013.

Statement of work: View 229KB PDF document.

Project Location: CDC building- inside Uganda Virus compound, Entebbe
Contract Award procedure: Technically acceptable lowest priced bid.
Site Visit: a site visit shall be held on February 11 2013, at 10am CDC building- inside Uganda Virus compound, Entebbe
Technical inquiries/information request: please and copy to the following emails for any technical inquires. hek1@ug.cdc.gov, hbo4@cdc.gov, and cc HST_CDCUgandaProcurements@UG.CDC.GOV, KwikirizaRX@state.gov, NaigaJV@state.gov.

Bid Submission and other inquiries:
If your firm is interested in carrying out these works, please submit –by email- your technical and financial proposals (SEPERATE) before 10:00am on Feb 18 2013 to the US Embassy, Kampala Uganda.  Please email proposals to KwikirizaRX@state.gov and cc NaigaJV@state.gov and SaunderRM1@state.gov

Submission of a proposal may not result PO being issued.