AMENDMENT NO 01 DATED: October 23, 2014 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) IRG/PDP/WAN/MEPCO/2014/187 Wide Area Network MPLS Bandwidth MEPCO Data Center Multan, Pakistan All prospective bidders, The purposes of this Amendment No. 01 to REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) No. IRG/PDP/WAN/MEPCO/2014/187
For Wide Area Network MPLS Bandwidth MEPCO Data Center Multan, Pakistan is 1) Correct the RFQ title 2) Extend the proposal submission deadline, and 3). Provide answers to questions submitted by prospective bidders 1. The questions submitted by prospective bidders are hereby answered as follows;
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Question Is there any hardware requirement (router/switch) for the termination of Service Providers’ Link What is the handoff requirement to terminate the services Please share the protocol requirements for these links if any Do the service provider need to connect to each node within the site or only each site How the nodes mentioned in the RFPs are connecting to each other within one location What is the latency requirement Is there any specific media requirement as last mile (e.g. copper/fiber/wireless) at the given sites Please share the SLA requirement Please clarify, are these P2P or P2MP links What is the bandwidth requirement at Hub Link Kindly elaborate "Tunkey WAN solution"
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Answer Please refer to Annex-I Ethernet handoff is required We require Layer 3 MPLS network. Bidders to suggest/propose other requirements Interconnect sites only. LAN deployment will happen under a different contract. The local connectivity within each location is through an Ethernet based Local Area Network Less than 70ms Last mile on Fiber media is the most preferred/required option but where this is not possible copper followed by wireless can be quoted. 99.9 % uptime. Each vendor to offer their Standard SLA terms and conditions in the proposal with 99.9% uptime requirements. P2P links 10Mbps A Trunkey WAN Solution means that bidder will handoff a fully working solution to PDP/MEPCO where all remote offices are
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We will provide Fast Ethernet interface as hand off We are assuming that rack, U.P.S, Air conditioning, routers with FE interface will be available at all sites for our equipment to install. Please acknowledge or correct our understanding, if it’s wrong. Last miles will be proposed according to required bandwidth requirements at each site. Please elaborate "VLANs for backend infrastructure"
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As per our understanding, for the connectivity primary media would be optical fiber and secondary media would be DSL, Please clarify do vendor required to provide equipment (i.e. L3 switch or router) for auto failover Do vendor required any switch for the connectivity of LAN at remote sites Need confirmation of backup links at aggregation and spoke sites Confirm the bandwidth at aggregation site. Does IRG has routers available at all sites or we have to proposed What does this means (Nodes Manually calculated) GPS coordinates of all sites.
Answer connected to the HQ via secure dedicated links and able to access the ERP/CIS applications and other network services hosted centrally on the Servers located at the MEPCO HQ Data Center. OK - Ethernet handoff is required We are procuring routers vide our RFP # 172. Details can be viewed at Annex-I. As an alternate quote equipment that meet your solution requirements. PDP/MEPCO will arrange racks etc. See our reply to Q. No. 7 above We shall require a number of VLANs to meet IT deployment best practices. Selected WAN solution vendor will need to work with vendors implementing LAN, Datacenter and Applications etc. to ensure routing/connectivity between VLANs encompassing multiple remote sites. See our reply to Q. No. 13 above Annex-I provides the details of routers and router-cum-switches already under procurement vide RFP #172. If some specific devices such as Media Converters/GPONs and or Switches / Interfaces etc. are required for termination, these should be proposed separately. Propose backup links along with costing at hub and spoke sites separately. See our reply to Q. No. 10 above Annex-I provides the details of routers and router-cum-switches already under procurement vide RFP #172 The number of LAN nodes We will upload the coordinates separately as and when we are able to get them. See Annex-II for some details.
ALL OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS REMAIN UNCHANGED AND IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT End of Amendment No. 01
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Head Quarters Data Center Specs
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Juniper SRX 3400 Chassis, Midplane, Fan, RE, SFB-12GE, AC PEM - no power cord - no SPC - no NPC
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Power Cord, AC, Great Britain & Ireland, C19 at 70-80mm, 13A/250V, 2.5mm, Straight
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PSS RTF Support for SRX3400 Chassis (includes PS, SCB, RE)
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PSS RTF Support for SRX3-IOC Line Card
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PSS RTF Support for SRX3-NPC Line Card
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PSS RTF Support for SRX3-SPC Line Card
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2x10GE XFP CFM for SRX 3000
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Network Processing Card for SRX 3000
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Services Processing Card for SRX 3000, Single Processor, 1Ghz, 4GB Memory/CPU
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Small Form Factor Pluggable 1000Base-SX Gigabit Ethernet Optic Module
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Small Form Factor Pluggable 1000Base-SX Gigabit Ethernet Optic Module
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10GE short reach multi-mode pluggable interface
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10GE short reach multi-mode pluggable interface
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Router cum switch (12 ports) appliance for MEPCO’s Remote Offices: The appliance should provide:
WAN fixed ports: 2 integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports Secure wireless LAN with Multiple antennas LAN fixed ports: 12 x 1000BASE-T switch ports Next Generation Firewall, IPSec VPN, Network Intrusion Prevention, URL Filtering, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, etc.
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A broad set of WAN and LAN interfaces along with a rich set of advanced routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP, IPv4, IPv6), MPLS, VPLS, Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs Business continuity and resiliency with high availability clusters, and redundant WAN Three year security subscription for Enterprise - includes Anti-Virus, Enhanced Web Filtering, Anti-Spam, Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention
Router cum Firewall appliance for MEPCO’s Remote Offices: The appliance should provide:
WAN fixed ports: 2 integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports Next Generation Firewall, IPSec VPN, Network Intrusion Prevention, URL Filtering, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, etc. A broad set of WAN and LAN interfaces along with a rich set of advanced routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP, IPv4, IPv6), MPLS, VPLS, Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs Business continuity and resiliency with high availability clusters, and redundant WAN
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Three year security subscription for Enterprise - includes Anti-Virus, Enhanced Web Filtering, Anti-Spam, Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention
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Bahawalpur Circle Office
Khanewal Divisional Office
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