| Overview : The United Nations (UN) House in Pretoria currently comprises of 11 agencies using independent internet connectivity with different bandwidths allocation. The main purpose of this project is to consolidate internet connectivity for the agencies for better economies of scale and return on investment. All Agencies depend on Internet connectivity to enable access to cloud services and business tools that are hosted in their headquarters mainly New York and Geneva. Reliable internet service is therefore a critical requirement for productivity of staff on 11 UN Agencies in UN House namely UNDP, UNFPA, WHO, FAO, UNAIDS, UNIC, OHCHR, UNEP, UNDSS, UNWOMEN and Africa Forum. This request for proposal (RFP) therefore seeks to find a service provider to provide primary Fibre based internet connectivity with 1:1 ratio,100% uptime to the internet to be used for accessing web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) databases, cloud-based email services, Unified Communication voice and video traffic as well as general internet browsing. |
