12.02.2010

Republic of Serbia
Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project
Procurement of IT and Office Equipment
Credit No. YF3908

This invitation for bids follows the general procurement notice for this project that appeared in Development Business, issue no. Issue No.636 of August 16, 2004.

The Republic of Serbia - Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ) received a credit from the International Development Association toward the cost of the Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit to payments under the contract for procurement of IT Equipment and Software, Bid No.: SAM-RECRP-YF3908-ICB-G-09-219.

Lot # 1 Enclosures, Hard Disks and Backup Software
Lot # 2 Servers, Racks, Switches and Various Software

Bidders have the option to bid for any one or more lots, but they must quote for complete requirements in each lot.

The Project Implementation Unit (PIU) of Republic Geodetic Authority now invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for Procurement of IT Equipment and Software.

The purpose is:

• Expansion of capacity of storage systems in RGZ through procurement of enclosures and additional hard drives for existing storage systems and servers;

• Enhancement of reliability of RGZ IT system (servers, LAN, WAN);

• Improvement of data integrity and availability of data and services;

• Improvement of communication network in RGZ through procurement of switches;

• Procurement of software for virtualization in order to create conditions for ad hoc provision of virtual servers allowing simulation of real world environments for software development and testing, better reliability of services through creation of virtual server clusters, etc.;

• Procurement of various software in order to improve migration procedure for Real Estate Cadastre data, presentation of Real Estate Cadastre data on the web and security of RGZ internet access.

Delivery, installation, testing of the equipment, virtualization and training are included in the scope of the work as well as support capabilities in warranty period.

Bidding will be conducted through the international competitive bidding procedures specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits and is `open to all bidders from eligible source countries as defined in the Guidelines that meet the following minimum qualification criteria:

Lot # 1

• During the past five (5) years, the Bidder must have completed three (3) successful contracts with storage of a minimum capacity 10 TB delivered and integrated in an IT infrastructure. To prove this, bidder must submit original statement, signed by the client, with requested information.

• EMC Partnership. To prove this, bidder must submit copy of requested certificate.

Lot # 2

• During the past five (5) years, the Bidder must have completed three (3) successful contracts with storage of a minimum capacity 10 TB delivered and integrated in an IT infrastructure. To prove this, bidder must submit original statement, signed by the client, with requested information.

• MS, Cisco and Software for Virtualization Partnership. To prove this, bidder must submit copies of requested certificates.

• Certified full-time specialist for Cisco equipment (CCNA or CCDA); certified full-time specialist for MS (MCITP or MCSE); certified full-time specialist for the offered virtualization software. To prove these, bidder must submit copies of applicable certificates.

Lot # 1 & Lot # 2

The successful bidder for backup software (lot 1) and servers and virtualization software (lot 2) must have the following support capabilities, during warranty period, or must demonstrate in the bid documentation a credible plan for establishing such capabilities by the contract signing:

• Help-Desk telephone service with automatic problems application must be active 24 hours, every day.

• For problems that cannot be resolved by telephone that are notified within 8:00am-8:00pm Monday through Sunday, qualified service personnel must be able to arrive on-site within 6 hours of problem escalation for virtualization software and back up software and within 24 hours of problem escalation for remaining equipment.

• The maximum acceptable delay for the repair (or replacement) and restoration to full operational use is 30 working days from notification, provided that the Bidder temporarily provides adequate unit or equipment and puts it into operation within 1 working day. To prove this, bidder must submit signed original statement

Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from the Project Implementation Unit of Republic Geodetic Authority and inspect the bidding documents at the address given below from 09:00 to 15:00 hours.

A complete set of bidding documents, available in English only, may be purchased by interested bidders on the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee Euro 100 or equivalent in Serbian Dinars based on the selling exchange rate published by the National Bank of Serbia on the date of payment.

Domestic Bidders shall make payment to the Government Treasury Account no.: 840-1620-21 with reference number 40600-04410-423432, stating: RGZ/PIU Tender ICB-G-09-219.

Foreign bidders shall pay a nonrefundable fee of 100 Euros according to following payment instructions:

FIELD 32A: VALUE DATE-CURRENCY-AMOUNT
FIELD 5OK: ORDERING CUSTOMER
FIELD 56A: DEUTDEFF
(INTERMEDIARY)
FIELD 57A: NBSRRSBG
(ACC.WITH BANK)
FIELD 59: /RS35908005411097889891/
(BENEFICIARY) REPUBLIC GEODETIC AUTHORITY
BELGRADE
FIELD 70: DETAILS OF PAYMENT
FIELD 71A: SHA

There will be no pre-bid meeting for potential bidders.

Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before April 12, 2010, 12:00 Noon, local time. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security of EUR 2,000.00 for lot 1 and EUR 4,000.00 for lot 2 or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose to attend at the address below at 12:15 local time on April 12, 2010, in the Conference room at the 5th floor.

The attention of prospective Bidders is drawn to (i) the fact that they will be required to certify in their bids that all software is either covered by a valid license or was produced by the Bidder and (ii) that violations are considered fraud, which is, among other remedies, punishable by potential blacklisting from participation in future World Bank-financed procurement.

Republic Geodetic Authority
Project Implementation Unit
Office “PISARNICA”
Bulevar vojvode Mišića 39
11000 Belgrade
Republic of Serbia
Tel / Fax: +381 11 2652 408
E-mail: ljkrejovic@rgz.gov.rs