RFQ: Server and its software applications At FHI 360

Background

An effective national response to COVID-19 requires collective efforts by the global community, multi-sectoral coordination at the national level, development partners, and other entities. The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) consortium is well positioned to support the Royal Thai Government (RTG), community partners, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.

EpiC will provide support to strengthen the Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), provincial, and community capacity to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 and mitigate its impacts on morbidity and mortality with key two objectives (1) accelerating widespread and equitable access to and delivery of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations; (2) reducing morbidity and mortality from COVID-19, mitigate transmission, and strengthen health systems, including to prevent, detect, and respond to pandemic threats

According to the first objective, under Activity 1.4.2: Support for cloud-based data platform, EpiC will support the MOPH to procure a cloud-based database platform, which is “server and its software applications”. These will accelerate the transfer, storage, and use of COVID-19 testing and vaccine data for decision-making. They will be located and installed at IT unit of Office of the Permanent Secretary, Thai Ministry of Public Health.

List of products

1. Server, Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10, appliance type, architecture of Hyper Converged, at least 3 nodes
2. Software product for virtual machine system, VMWARE Vspher 6.7 or higher version, OEM License, (6 licenses)
3. Software product for system management on VM center, VMWARE VCENTER 6.7 or higher version (1 license),

Product specifications

1. Server, Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10, appliance type, architecture of Hyper Converged, at least 3 nodes, each node must have qualifications as follows:

1.1. Server designed specifically for Hyper Converged Appliance, with the size of 2U

1.2. The system regarding Hyper Converged must be the manufacturer in Leader Quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyper Converged Infrastructure (latest 2019)

1.3. Processor: Intel Xeon Processor, 12-Core Processor, 2.4GHz or higher, at least 2 units

1.4. Memory: at least 512GB, type: DDR4 RDIMM or LRDIMM or higher version

1.5. Capacity Storage SAS or better: at least 1.2TB and at least 20 units

1.6. Data storage can support one unit of defect in every node altogether without affecting the data of virtual server or Hyper Converged appliance system

1.7. Data storage for Solid State Cache (or higher version), at least 1.92TB, 4 units

1.8. Data storage for Solid State Cache (or higher version) that can support for at least one unit fail of each node without affecting the efficacy of the server or causing system halt

1.9. At least 4 ports for Network interface, 10/25Gb or higher version, together with 4 sets of Transceiver with at least 10Gb SFP

1.10. Power Supply, Hot Plug or Hot Swap, at least 1600W, 2 units, and also Cooling Fans, Redundant type, supporting for Hot Plug or Hot Swap

1.11. Scale-out and Open architecture that can share Data Store with other ESXi

1.12. Inline Deduplication, Compression and Data Optimization

1.13. Supporting for increasing nodes, Hyper Converged without stopping the system

1.14. Installing the system of Software Defined Storage (genuine) with the qualifications as follows:

1.14.1 Scale-out and Open architecture that can share Data Store with other ESXi

1.14.2 Active-Active cluster by synchronize Replication

1.14.3 Multiple Site DR (Many to One)

1.14.4 Update Hyper Converged software, Firmware without stopping system

1.15. Software for Hyper Converged system, cloud base service type, with the qualifications as follows:

1.15.1 Predictive Capacity Planning

1.15.2 Be able to see the resource usage of the system regarding Data Center, Cluster, Host and VM

1.15.3 Be able to notify the fixation status in case of system damage

1.16. Software for backup 1 set with qualifications as follows:

1.16.1 Genuine software as per number of processers of the server and can be use all the time according to the server

1.16.2 Be able to backup and recover the data on system of VMware vSphere without installing Agent

1.16.3 Be able to recover the data (file level) on Guest OS (at least Windows)

1.16.4 Consistency application

1.16.5 Data storage for backup data that safe from Ransomware

1.16.6 Backup without snapshot VMs

1.16.7 WAN Acceleration for receiving and sending the backup data through WAN

1.16.8 Deduplication or Compression of backup data by Global Deduplication

2. Software product for virtual machine system, VMWARE Vspher 6.7 or higher version, OEM License, (6 licences), with qualifications as follows:

2.1. vSMP – Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing, maximum at 128 Virtual CPUs

2.2. API connecting to Third-Party Backup Software, Multipath Software

2.3. High Availability (HA) by automatic restart of VM in case of problems on Hardware or Operating System

2.4. Managing the disk area on Shared Storage for Thin Provisioning VM

2.5. Agentless VM backup system, with de-duplication and replication of backup data to backup computer center

2.6. Relocation of VM among the server without affecting the users

2.7. Fault Tolerance for continuous working of application in case of problems on the hardware of the server

2.8. Relocation of disk file of VM between storages without affecting the users

3. Software product for system management on VM center, VMWARE VCENTER 6.7 or higher version (1 license), with qualifications as follows:

3.1. Be able to manage VM from the central network

3.2. Manage the resources for VMs from the central network such as CPU and memory clustering for each VM

3.3. Single Sign-On for login

3.4. Alert and Notifications

3.5. Customized User Interface or Custom role and permissions on accessing to inventory of VMs

3.6. Be able to search for Host, VM, Datastore and Network

3.7. Web-based VM system management through the Web Browser

Vender requirement

The vender must be authorized directly from the manufacturer in Thailand. The proposed equipment to be a reseller in this project with an authorized letter directly from the manufacturer in Thailand.

The vender must be certified directly by the manufacturer in Thailand of the equipment being offered. The equipment proposed in the project is brand new, never be used, still in production line, warranty support, provides technical support and after-sales service in this project with a certificate from the manufacturer’s branch in Thailand directly.

Submission documents

Quotation should contain the following information: price, timeline, delivery of products, payment method, warranty information and other relevant conditions/information.

Also, the formal legal documents related to the company such as company certificate, company profile including works/project experiences, vat exemption, and other related documents must be submitted.