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HEALTH AND NUTRITION

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

OF

PROVISION OF MANAGED NETWORK SERVICES

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Contents 1. RFP ISSUER DETAILS ........................................................................................................... 3

2. STATEMENT OF WORK ......................................................................................................... 4

3. SCOPE OF WORK ..................................................................................................................... 5

4. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: ....................................................................................... 6

5. MANDATORY REQUIREMENT: ........................................................................................ 13

6. PROJECT TIMELINES .......................................................................................................... 14

7. SUBMISSION OF BID .......................................................................................................... 14

8. FORMAT OF BID ..................................................................................................................... 15

9. TECHNICAL PROPOSAL ..................................................................................................... 15

10. FINANCIAL PROPOSAL ...................................................................................................... 15

11. BID OPENING AND EVALUATION................................................................................ 16

i. SELECTION CRITERIA ............................................................................................................ 17

12. SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE/ SLA COST ............................................................ 18

13. NOTIFICATION OF AWARD & SIGNING OF CONTRACT AGREEMENT: ... 19

14. CONTRACT PERIOD ............................................................................................................. 20

15. CLARIFICATION OF BIDDING DOCUMENTS ......................................................... 20

16. PENALTY FOR DOWNTIME OF SERVICES ............................................................... 21

17. BID SECURITY ........................................................................................................................ 22

18. PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE: ........................................................................................ 23

19. VALIDITY OF BID ................................................................................................................. 23

ANNEXURE A ...................................................................................................................................... 24

ANNEXURE B ...................................................................................................................................... 25

ANNEXURE C ...................................................................................................................................... 26

ANNEXURE D ...................................................................................................................................... 27

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1. RFP ISSUER DETAILS

HANDS - PROCUREMENT OF NETWORK SERVICES

Sr.No Item Description

1 Project Title Procurement of Network Services

2 RFP Issuer Details

Department IT Department: (HANDS)

Contact Person Kashif Hasnain (Technical)

Contact Person (Alternative)

Amon John (Documentation/Procurement)

Email Address of HANDS [email protected] & [email protected]

Postal Address Plot #158, Off M9 (Karachi – Hyderabad)

Motorway, Gadap Road, Karachi, Pakistan.

Website www.hands.org.pk

Timelines for completion of bidding activities:

Sr.No. Items Date and Time

1 Release of RFP 28-12-2020

2 Last Date for submission

of bids

12-01-2021

3 Pre-Bid Conference

12-01-2021

4 Opening of bids 12-01-2021

5 Date of Issue of

Clarification

20-01-2021

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2. STATEMENT OF WORK

I. The bidder must propose 1 x NGFW UTM hardware-based appliance with 24x7x365 Support along with necessary licenses

II. The proposed product should be covered for 24x7 Advance Replacement Hardware Warranty

III. The proposed product should be covered for 24x7 Security Licenses

IV. The proposed product should have Intrusion Prevention System Inspection license

V. The proposed product should have Web Content Filtering license

VI. The proposed product should have an Endpoint Detection & Response solution

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3. SCOPE OF WORK

i. Managed service required with hardware and related license Scope of work

includes deployment, installation and configuration of IP communication network

required for secured IP traffic between (HANDS office) and services provider

24x7x365 basis.

ii. The proposed solution should be capable of primary and backup connectivity for

managed network and internet services for Head Office Karachi. In case of

primary connection failure, secondary system should switchover automatically

and seamlessly, and internet service for District Offices.

iii. The Vendor of proposed product(s) should be ICSA certified.

iv. Configuration management procedure is defined and implemented to process

any change to the network environment/services. This procedure must include

the capability to support the transition between the aforementioned

environments prior to production deployment.

v. Provide support to technical team of HANDS or nominated agency for

Optimization of resources in network environment for better performance and

also provide physical and virtual access to the technical persons for the resolution

of any issue pertaining to the operation, maintenance or rectification to keep the

application(s) running without any problem, as authenticated by HANDS.

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4. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

Technical specifications are given below: NOTE: FOR CONDITIONS REFER ANNEXURE (A, B, C, D)

• Must Propose Hardware Appliance Solution

• Minimum 80 Mbps NGFW Firewall Throughput (Firewall + IPS Throughput)

• Support Unrestricted Concurrent User

• Maximum Number of Concurrent Session

• Maximum Number of New Session Per Second

• IPS 18 Mbps 252 Mbps

• NGFW 15 Mbps 210 Mbps

• Threat Protection 13.5 Mbps 189 Mbps

• Network Interfaces Multiple 40 GE QSFP+ and 10 GE SFP+ slots Multiple

40 GE QSFP+ and 10 GE SFP+ slots

• Minimum 6 Ethernet RJ45 Ports, 2 1G Fiber SFP Ports

• Must Supports Site-to-Site VPN & IPsec VPN

• All Licenses for Application Control, Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Intrusion

Prevention System, File Blocking, Web URL Filtering, Security Sandbox and

Email Security Protection.

• Controlling application categories (i.e. P2P, Proxy Avoidance, Video)

• Routing (BGP, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP, Static, Multicast)

• IPv6 Dual Stack Support

• NAT (Static, DIPP, Source, and Destination)

• Policy Based Forwarding (Based on Source, Destination, Application and

URL)

• QoS (Marking and Traffic Shaping) based on application

• Ability to control traffic from/to countries (Geo-location control)

• Support LACP

• Must be able to deploy in multiple network deployment modes

simultaneously including Layer 2, Layer 3 and passive transparent.

• Must be able to perform SSL decryption inbound and outbound for threat

inspection without additional device.

• Must be able to selectively identify which SSL traffic is decrypted to

address privacy concerns

• Blocks application vulnerabilities on all NGFW models

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• Blocks spyware and malware on all NGFW models

• Block known network and application-layer vulnerability exploits

• Block buffer overflow attacks

• Block DoS/DDoS attacks

• Anti-Virus must be based on vendor recommendation for best security

• Block Malicious DNS request

• Protect against zero-day malware and zero-day exploits.

• Must Support File Blocking or DLP

• Anti-Botnet

• Must be able to analyze JAR, SWF, APK, EXE, PDF, DLL and standard office

document files for zero-day threats

• Must be able to deny unknown traffic

• Web filtering must integrate with other required security (Zero-day, etc)

• Web filtering must support categorical URL database functionality

• Web filtering must support creating and uploading of custom URL lists

• Web filtering must support retrieving blocked traffic and report on it.

• Web filtering must support blocking unknown URLs as a policy

• The solution must permit the operator to create custom application

signatures.

• Protect against user credential theft via a firewall policy

• Command-and-control (C2) protection

• Integrate with MS AD, LDAP, RADIUS, and client certification

• Supports the creation of security policy based on Active Directory Users

and Groups in addition to source/destination IP

• Captive Portal for unauthenticated users

• Syslog receiver to read username from any syslog message

• Support HA deployment

• Link and Path failure monitoring to trigger fail-over

• Integrated Log analysis of all information at one view (Applications, Users,

Source / Destination IP’s, Threat and Country)

• Solution must have on-box reporting and logging

• Monitoring tool required to monitor all hardware gadgets status like

(status, health utilization) of head office equipment and connectivity status

of branches

• Head office must have backup route as well as backup service

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• service required all over Pakistan branches of HANDS offices list attached

bandwidth may be varying as per need head office around 100mbps (CIR)

• SIP trunk

• Core router must have a provision of fail over option with multiple vendor

Access Switch 24 ports (Layer 2)

Make: CISCO, HUAWEI, or Equivalent

Fixed form switch:1U 24x 10/100/1000Base-T ports, 4 x 10 GE SFP+

ports

Switching Capacity 110 GB or more

Layer 2 4K VLAN

32K MAC Address

QinQ, LACP, STP, RSTP, MSTP, ERPS

IGMPv1/v2/v3, PIM-DM, PIM-SM, MSDP

Packet Switching Capacity: At least 120 Gbps.

Stacking: Stacking support for up to 8 switches

o Security

o Support mac authentication and 802.1x authentication

o Support Integration with industry standard NAC Solutions like Cisco ISE

o Support 802.1x, Dynamic VLAN, Dynamin ACL, RADIUS CoA, Local Web

Authentication, URL Redirection and Session ID

o CLI and Web interface (HTTPS)

o Telnet, SSH v2, SNMP v1, v2, and v3

o Support Automation with SDN Controller

o Principal / OEM, Technical Support Team should be available in Karachi

to provide after sales Support whenever needed

o Proposed Product OEM must have presence in Gartner magic quadrant

of wired and wireless LAN access Infrastructure

o Warranty: 1 Years 8 x5 x NBD Advance Hardware Replacement from

Local Depot

o Installation & Configuration:

o Installation & Configuration of Switch.

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Option wireless solution

Wireless Controller to managing user authentication and

management

o Support of CAPWAP/LWAPP/SSH Protocol & 802.11 ac and ax support.

o Support of at least 200/higher Access Point with 4000 or higher

concurrent user connections, packet forwarding capacity:5Gbps or

higher.

o Support of all standard authentication protocols.

o Support of load balancing feature. Web Based GUI for centralized

configuration and management. Access Points Should Support VLAN

Tagging on individual VLANs.

o Support of portal server/AAA server (Either Built-in or External),

Supports Layer 4 to Layer 7 application identification and support

application-based policy control, traffic blocking traffic limit, Rouge

device scan, identification, defense, and countermeasures, which

includes dynamic blacklist configuration and detection of rogue APs,

STAs, and network attacks.

Warranty: Replacement from Local Depot.

o Principal /OEM, Technical Support Team should be available in

Karachi

o OEM Must be present in Pakistan from last 5 year

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Access point

o Compliance with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac

o Support Wave II standard and 2x2 MIMO or higher,

o Provides services simultaneously on both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz

bands, at a rate of up to 1.2Gbps (Accumulative) or higher. Minimum

Physical Antenna Gain: 5 dBi or higher on both 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ.

o Support of up to 350 or Higher users. 802.11at POE support.

o One or more Gigabit or higher Ethernet interface.

o Should be able to work as controller based as well as standalone

device. WIDS, WIPS, Rogue device detection,802.1x authentication,

Mac Address Authentication and other standard features.

Warranty: Hardware Replacement from Local Depot

o Principal / OEM, Technical Support Team should be available in Karachi

o OEM Must be present in Pakistan from last 5 year

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Endpoint Detection & Response

• The EDR Must Include: Detection against threats, malwares etc. for

Clients that have Windows Server, Linux Server environment.

• Must Support Centralized Management by Management Platform on

Premises, to Monitor and Update Clients Policy

• Must Support Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat Detection and Machine

Learning capabilities

• Must Support Real-Time End point detection & response

• Must Support Web Protection

• Must Support Remote Management

• Must Support Advanced Real-Time Threat Prevention

• Must Support Ransomware Security/Protection and prevention

• Must Support Identity Protection

• Must Support Advanced Malware Scan and Clean

• Must Support Block File Extension

• Must Support Block USB Storage

• Must Support Incident Response (Proactive) and Risk mitigation

• Must Support Complete Visibility

• Must Support Reporting and Alert

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Telephonic

• Include HANDS Head Office

• Centralized Administration, Configuration and Monitoring

• Multi Calling (One to One / One to Many)

• Call Center

• Call divert / Hold / Forwarding

• Nested IVR

• Phone Broadcasting

• Logs

• Graphical Reporting

• Mobility / Integration

• Schedule (Auto Call forward to Mobile)

• SMS, Email alerts

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5. MANDATORY REQUIREMENT:

For a bid to be considered valid, bid shall contain all the following documents

having complete information as required. No document shall contain partial or

incomplete information. In case, if any of the documents is missing or incomplete,

the bid shall be rejected by the Purchaser as non-responsive.

Sr.No. Mandatory Criteria Documentary Evidences

1 The bidder must have minimum 03 years’ experience in providing network computing services (industry grade).

Company profile specially mentioning years of experience in service provision.

3 Having more than 99.99% UPTIME per month. A certificate that the system is configured for high availability 24x7 of all hardware and software.

4 Details of past projects related to selling of network services

SLA’s

5 Disaster recover management Disaster recovery mechanism.

6 Bidder should have an appropriate authorization letter from the principal vendor (if applicable).

Letter of authorization

7 Present head office address, phone number, fax number, email address and URL of the bidder

Postal address

8 Type Firm/Company (Public,Pvt,Limited/ETC) Registration

9 National Tax Number (NTN) registration certificate for local firms and international firms must provide the relevant tax ID Number

NTN registration certificate

10 Sales Tax Registration Number (STRN) certificate for local firms and international firms must provide the relevant tax ID Number

STRN certificate

11 The bidder shall be a registered firm according to rules of Government of Sindh or Government of Pakistan.

Registration certificate of the company.

12 Bidder must have valid license issued by the relevant department of Government of Sindh or Government of Pakistan regarding said services. Attach valid copy of license / certificate.

Services certificate

13 Complaint escalation matrix must be submitted by the bidder

Incident management system

14 The Bidder/agency must have a fully functional Customer Service Center(s) in the province, which is fully operational 24x7x365 days.

Incident management system

15 List of Customer Service Center(s) must be enclosed with technical bid.

List with postal address

16 Training of Technical Staff of minimum 08 Officers / Officials of HANDS for the said network services

Details of training ,which will be provided.

17 The bidder must provide a list of clients with 20 or more public and private offices which are connected through network services.

List of clients

18 The bidder must provide Client Satisfactory Certificates (CSC) from at least 10 of these clients must be attached.

Client Satisfactory Certificates (CSC)

19 The bidder must provide end to end data security and shall provide a certificate to ensure the same at their own.

VAPT Reports

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6. PROJECT TIMELINES

The indicative milestones and project timelines are given below:

Sr.No Project Milestones Indicative Timelines

1 Issue and Acceptance of Work

Order

2 Weeks

2 Setup of Network Environment

and Handover the Network

Environment to HANDS

1 Week

The bidder shall strictly adhere to above mentioned timelines. However, if the

bidder is confident of completing the work before the stipulated period, he shall

submit some revised project timelines along with the technical bid.

In case, if the price bid of more than one bidder is same, in such cases, the

bidder given the shortest project timelines, having more government and semi-

government clients. In case, this also matches, the decision of the HANDS will

be final to opt for any of them.

The bidder shall provide 18 VMs required for Staging environment immediately

within 1 week from the date of issuance of Work Order

7. SUBMISSION OF BID

a) The bids must reach in the office of the Purchaser located at “Plot #158, Off

M9 (Karachi-Hyderabad) Motorway, Gadap Road, Karachi, Pakistan”.by 1100

hrs. on 13-11-2020. Late bids will not be entertained.

b) Bids submitted through telegraph, telex, fax or e-mail shall not be

considered.

c) Bid received after the deadline will be returned unopened to such bidder.

d) Partial, incomplete or conditional bids will not be entertained/ considered.

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8. FORMAT OF BID

a) Bidder shall submit the bid in a sealed envelope.

b) Name and Address of the bidder shall be clearly mentioned in bold letters

on the envelope.

c) The sealed envelope shall contain two (2) separate envelopes. Each

envelope shall contain separately the financial proposal and the technical

proposal. The envelopes shall be clearly marked as “FINANCIAL PROPOSAL” and “TECHNICAL PROPOSAL” in bold

letters to avoid confusion.

d) The Purchaser will reject the bid if both the financial proposal and the

technical proposal are in the same envelop or the technical proposal is

found to include any financial information.

9. TECHNICAL PROPOSAL

a) The Technical Proposal must contain the entire bid items mentioned above in

Point 4 (n) and must not contain any financial quotation.

b) Technical Bid should accompany with complete project methodology, technical

details on service and support assurance, and the time period required Services

Implementation Plan (SIP) and relevant Technical Literature/Brochures.

c) Bid Security shall not be included in Technical Proposal.

10. FINANCIAL PROPOSAL

a) Financial Proposal shall be in a separate envelope.

b) Bid Security shall be included in envelop of Financial Proposal.

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11. BID OPENING AND EVALUATION

a) The Purchaser will open technical bids at 1400 hrs. on 17-11-2020 in the

presence of bidders’ representatives who choose to attend, in the office of

the Purchaser located at HANDS’s Address.

b) Opening of the bids will be done as a two envelope procedure.

c) The Purchaser will open envelops marked “TECHNICAL PROPOSAL” and

evaluate the technical proposals in accordance with the set of evaluation

criteria without reference to the Financial Proposal’s quoted price.

d) It will be examined in detail whether the proposed bandwidth by the bidder

fulfill the scope of work as specified above in Tender Document

e) Enquiry. To facilitate this, technical features of the bandwidth specified in the

bid will be reviewed. Other technical information submitted with the bid will

also be reviewed.

f) The Purchaser will initially shortlist the bidders in accordance with the set of

evaluation criteria. Technically qualified bidders may be called for a

presentation / demo by the Purchaser.

g) The Purchaser will reject any bid if

i. The Bid does not confirm to the mandatory requirements of the

tender document.

ii. The offer is from any blacklisted firm in Federal / Provincial

Government Department.

iii. If the Bid is found ambiguous.

iv. The Bid is conditional, currency fluctuations etc. No supplementary or

revised offer for the opening of the tender shall be entertained.

h) Financial proposals of non-qualified bidders will be returned unopened to the

respective bidders.

i) The bidder’s name, Bid Prices, any discount, the presence or absence of Bid

Security and such other details as the Purchaser at its discretion

j) May consider appropriate, will be announced by the Purchaser at the bid

opening.

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i. SELECTION CRITERIA

Bids of the bidder whose proposal complies with mandatory

requirement, will be evaluated for technical and financial requirements

for total marks of 100. Selection will be made on the combine weight

age of technical and financial proposals. Weightage factor is as under:

Technical Proposal: 50%

Financial Proposal: 50%

Sr.No Summary of Technical

(Proposal Evaluation)

Score Weight Maximum

Score

1 Initial Screening MUST provide all the requested

information as per “Mandatory

Requirement: to

qualify for the technical

evaluation.

2 Firm’s Technical Capacity 50% 50

3 Financial Proposal 50% 50

Total 100% 100

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12. SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE/ SLA COST

a) HANDS is soliciting an SLA with the service provider that will bind vendor

to provide operations, maintenance, and support of implemented

services.

b) All Vendors / Service Providers are requested to provide total annual

cost of SLA (if any) for the solution support, operations and

maintenance.

Note: Time period of Support and Maintenance/ SLA will start after the

successful implementation of the connectivity / services and subsequent sig/

acceptance by the HANDS.

c) For support and maintenance services, the Bidder shall comply with

the following principles:

The system support fee proposal shall include all services

necessary to restore full operating functionality and capacity

including but not limited to: technical support services,

emergency support and software support. These are to be

presented as separate line items.

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13. NOTIFICATION OF AWARD & SIGNING OF CONTRACT AGREEMENT:

a) Prior to expiry of the period of bid validity specified by the bidder, the

Purchaser will notify the successful bidder in writing a “Letter of

Acceptance” that his bid has been accepted.

b) After the receipt of “Letter of Acceptance” and submission of required

documents by the successful bidder within timelines mentioned in the

“Letter of Acceptance”, the Purchaser will send the successful bidder

formal Purchase Order / Contract Agreement incorporating all

agreements between the parties.

c) The formal Agreement between the Purchaser and the successful

Bidder shall be executed within two (02) weeks of the issue/receipt

of Purchase Order / Contract Agreement by the successful bidder from

the Purchaser.

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14. CONTRACT PERIOD

a) The contract period for providing the bandwidth and allied services to

the HANDS would be for two (02) years. The contract may be extended

subject to the satisfactory provision of services to the purchaser.

b) The agreed price(s) would be applicable throughout the contract period.

No subsequent hike in price would be acceptable; however, if the prices

are reduced on any account, benefit of the same should be passed on

to the HANDS.

15. CLARIFICATION OF BIDDING DOCUMENTS

A prospective bidder requiring any clarification(s) in respect of the Tender

Documents may contact the Purchaser’s representative at the following

address:

a) Kashif Hasnain (Technical)

Tel: +92 346 8209530 Tel: +92-21-32120400-10

b) Amon John (Documentation/Procurement)

Tel: +92-21-32120400-10

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16. PENALTY FOR DOWNTIME OF SERVICES

a) Packet Losses: Less than 1 % (Average over 1000 ping) at any given

point of time to any part of network segment.

b) Network Availability (uptime): More than 100% per month.

c) Reports for performance, monitoring/usage to be submitted by the

Service provider on Monthly / Quarterly basis or as per requirement of

the HANDS

d) Downtime Calculation: Downtime shall be calculated as (Total Time

– Down Time) X 100 /Total Time. Deduction in payment will be made for

downtime in the quarterly bills raised by the Service Provider.

e) The response time for attending the faults will be 1 hour after reported

to the service provider. The service provider will rectify the faults within

12 hours failing which; the vendor will switch to alternative/temporary

replacements. The services shall be provided 24X7X365.

f) Downtime penalty in % of monthly payment:

Sr. No. Downtime Penalty in % on monthly bill

1. > = 99.5% 0%

2. 99 to < 99.49 3%

3. > 98.5 to <

98.99 4%

4. >98 to < 98.49 5%

5. > 95 to < 97.99 6%

6. > 90 to < 94.99 7%

7. < 89.99% 10%

Every 10% increasing downtime (<89.99%) would cause 10% penalty

in the monthly bill.

g) Downtime due to the following situations will not be considered for the

purpose of penalty:

i. Link down due to natural calamity or fire which is beyond the

control of service provider.

ii. Link down due to schedule maintenance by the Service

Provider, with prior intimation to/approval of the HANDS.

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17. BID SECURITY

a) Each bidder shall furnish, as part of the bid a Bid Security of 5% of the total

quoted price in the form of Bank Draft, pay order, Bank Guarantee or Call

Deposit in favor of the Purchaser valid for a period up to One (1) year or on

completion of the project (whatever is later)

Beyond the bid validity date.

b) Any bid not accompanied by an acceptable Bid Security shall be

rejected by the Purchaser as non-responsive.

c) The bid securities of unsuccessful bidders will be returned upon award

of contract to the successful bidder or on the expiry of validity of Bid

Security, whichever is earlier.

d) The bid security of the successful bidder will be returned upon successful

completion of one (1) year or on completion of the project (whatever is

later) of the service and issuance of NOC by the HANDS

e) The Bid Security may be forfeited in any of following scenarios:

i. If a bidder withdraws his bid during the period of bid validity. ii. In the case of a successful bidder, if he fails to supply the

required bandwidth connectivity and other services.

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18. PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE:

a) The successful bidder shall be required to furnish a Performance Guarantee

equal to 10% of the total contract amount in the form of Bank Draft, Pay

order, Bank Guarantee or Call Deposit in favor of the HANDS valid for a

period up to two (02) years beyond the starting date of service delivery.

b) The Performance Guarantee of the successful bidder will be returned upon

completion of complete contract period and issuance of NOC by HANDS that

the bidder has fulfilled all the warranty claims as agreed.

c) The performance guarantee may be forfeited if the successful bidder fails

to fulfill warranty claims.

19. VALIDITY OF BID

Bids shall remain valid for a period of twelve (12) weeks after the date of bid

opening.

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ANNEXURE A

HANDS Software’s layout

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ANNEXURE B

List of Application’s Name and Modules along with Users

Sr.No Application Name

Modules Data Base

Users Vendor details

1 ERP Desktop Application

i. General Ledger ii. Fixed Asset iii. Purchasing iv. Store v. Account Payable vi. HRM

SQL DB 2012 RS

i. Min 10 ii. Max 50

Sidhyat Hyder

2 MIS Web Application

i. User Management

ii. Requisition iii. Project iv. Compliant v. Fund vi. Beneficiary vii. Training

SQL DB 2012 RS

i. Min 10 ii. Max 50

3AS Solution

3 MISALI Web App

i. Health info application (Data Collection)

SQL DB 2012 RS

i. 800 Digital Care

4 PSI Web App

i. Family Planning App

SQL DB 2012 RS

i. 10 Row Solution

5 NRSP Web App

i. Loan Management app

Oracle 11i

i. 15 NRSP

6 Library Web App

i. Library Software My SQL Server

i. 15 Open Source

7 School Web App

i. School Management Software

SQL Server

i. Min 5 ii. Max 40

A2Uk

8 HMS Web App

i. Hospital Management

SQL Database

i. Min 5 ii. Max 20

HM Solutions

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ANNEXURE C

Head office List of Gadgets/Equipment along with quantity will be required

Sr.No Gadgets/Equipment Type Quantity 1 Catalyst 3560 G Series PoE 48 Switch 11 2 Catalyst 2960 Plus Series PoE 48 Switch 4 3 Catalyst 2960 Series PoE 48 Switch 4 4. Catalyst 2960 Series S1 PoE 48 Switch 6 5 Firewall ASA 5508-X Firewall 1 6 Cisco 2900 Series Router Agrigate Router 1 7 O-Oring Media Device Media converter 1 8 Catalyst 3560 Series PoE 24 Switch 2 9 Video Phone Phone 5 10 Local Phone Phone 50 11 Access point Wifi 12

District office only Internet required wire / wireless list enclosed.

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ANNEXURE D

List of District offices (Users/bandwidth/Location)

Sr.No District's Address User's Bandwidth Mbps

1

Islamabad (Capital Liaison Office )

H. No. 04, Sunset Street 02, Green Avenue, Park Road, Islamabad 6 3

2 Badin Hyderabad Main Road, Near Abadgar Rice Mill, Badin 15 10

3 Dadu

Bungalow No.39, Chhano Shahabad Muhalla, Housing Society- II, Near District Population Welfare Office, Dadu 10 5

4 Ghotki

HANDS Office Near Bachal Shah Dargah Wango Road, Mirpur Mathelo District Ghotki 10 5

5 Hydrabad

Bungalow No. 23/32, Sadiq Livina House Scheme, Near Almas CNG Station, Main By Pass Road, Qasimabad, Hayderabad 10 5

6 Jacobabad

HANDS Office Near Qureshi CNG. Main Shikarpur Road Jacobabad Sindh 10 5

7 Jamshoro

HANDS District office Jamshoro new bus stand Sehwan 5 3

8 Karachi Urban

House # A-222, Block-12, Near PTCL Exchange Rado Bakeri Gulistan e Johar, Karachi 15 10

9 Karachi Rural Jamkanda Village, Bin Qasim Town Karachi 15 10

10 Kashmore

HANDS office kandhkot, massan road, near shahzaib petrol pump kandhkot 5 3

11 Qambar Shahdadkot

HANDS District Office opposite Happy Home High School Dost Ali Road Shahdadkot. 5 3

12 Khairpur

HANDS District Office @ Chandia Morr Near National Medical Center Khairpur City 5 3

13 Larkana

Behind szabist college near fouji foundation school banglow # 75 Sachal colony larkana. 5 3

14 Matiari

National Highway Village,Siddique Rahu Bhit Shah, Matiari 5 3

15 Mirpur Khaas Village Qesar Khan Rajar Sindhry Road, Mirpurkhas 3 3

16 Sanghar

Near Central Jail, Mirpurkhas Road, Sanghar, District Sanghar 10 5

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17 Sukkur

HANDS B-151,152 Professor Society,Near Imam Bargah, Airport Road Sukkur 10 5

18 Tharparkar

HANDS office opposite of Mithi graveyard near advocate Munawar sagar house, parmar colony, court road Mithi. 6 3

19 Thatta House # 252, Unit # 4, Hashimabad Makli, Thatta 15 10

20 Umerkot

Vehro sharif Chachro by Pass Road, Near Sooraj park HANDS DRMC, Umerkot 5 3

21 Quetta

House #.4 Kasi Street # 3, Near Benazir Bridge Spinny Road Quetta 5 3

22 Lasbella

Ronjha Mohalla, Adalat Road Near TCF School, Hub city Lasbela 5 3

23 Lahore House No. 903-C, Block-C, Faisal Town, Lahore 5 3

24 Layyah

HANDS office Plot # 155 A Housing colony #02 Bypass Road Layyah. 2 2

25 Muzaffargarh

Garden Road, Guher Town, Near MISALI Girls High School, Muzaffargarh 10 5

26 Peshwar

Peshawar: House #1, SS club road opposite Gul haji plaza University Road Peshawar. 5 3

27 Murad Memon Memon Goth 10 5

28 Ibrahim Hydri Near PAF KIET University 10 5

29 Head office Super highway, Near Baqai university Karachi 150 100

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