Acquisition, Implementation, Training and Support Tender - 53225623

Procurement Summary

Country: Cote d'Ivoire

Summary: Acquisition, Implementation, Training and Support for a Microsoft Teams Certified Session Border Controller (SBC)

Deadline: 10 Jun 2021

Posting Date: 20 May 2021

Other Information

Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 53225623

Document Ref. No.: ADB/RFP/CHGS/2021/0075

Competition: ICB

Financier: African Development Bank (AfDB)

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

CPV Classification

42967000 - Controller unit
80500000 - Training services

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Request for proposals are invited for Acquisition, Implementation, Training and Support for a Microsoft Teams Certified Session Border Controller (SBC) for Direct Routing Media Bypass in Microsoft Azure
1. The African Development Bank (the “Bank”) invites proposals for the provision of goods and

services as described in this Request for Proposal (RFP). To qualify for award, a bidder shall

meet the qualification criteria set out in the Section 2.

2. The proposals submitted by bidders shall be received by the Bank on or before the date and

time and in the manner specified in Section 2. The Bank-s requirement is set out in Section 4.

3. The Bank is an ‘AAA- rated regional multilateral development finance institution, established

in 1963, with a mandate to further economic development and social progress of African

countries, individually and collectively. 81 member countries including all the 54 African

countries and 27 non-African countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia own the Bank.

4. The Bank's principal functions include: (i) using its resources for the financing of investment

projects and programs relating to the economic and social development of its Regional

Member Countries (RMCs); (ii) the provision of technical assistance for the preparation and

execution of development projects and programs; (iii) promoting investment in Africa of

public and private capital for development purposes; and (iv) to respond to requests for

assistance in coordinating development policies and plans of RMCs. In its operations, the

Bank is also required to give special attention to projects and programs that promote regional

integration.

5. The Bank began its operations from its headquarters, in Abidjan, Côte d-Ivoire on July 1,

1966. For purposes of its operations the Bank also maintains field offices in certain of its

RMCs.

6. The information contained in the RFP is designed to enable bidders complete and submit

proposals. Bidders shall read the RFP carefully and ensure proposals comply with the

instructions provided in the RFP. Bidders are required to complete and submit the Technical

Proposal Questionnaire (Section 6) and Financial Proposal Questionnaire (Section 7) in

accordance with the Instructions to Bidders (Section 2), RFP Data Sheet (Section 3),

Description of Goods / Technical Specification / Terms of Reference (Section 4), Eligibility

Criteria (Section 8) and the Contract Conditions (Section 9). The Bank shall evaluate

proposals in accordance with the evaluation criteria and methodology (Section 5). The Bank

is not bound by any other terms and conditions unless agreed in writing by the Bank.
Procurement Ethics, Integrity, Anti-corruption and Fairness

2.1. It is the Bank-s policy that bidders/suppliers to the Bank observe the highest standard of ethics

during the procurement process and execution of such contracts. In pursuance of this policy, the

Bank shall reject a proposal if it determines that the bidder, or any of its personnel, agent,

consultant, subcontractor or service provider, has, directly or indirectly, engaged in “Corrupt-,

“Fraudulent-, “Collusive”, “Coercive” or “Obstructive” practices in competing for the contract in

question. These terms are as defined in the General Terms and Conditions (Appendix 9B). The

Bank may also declare the bidder ineligible for participation in future procurement and award of

contracts, either indefinitely or for a stated period of time.

2.2. A bidder/supplier who offers any gift of any value to Bank staff will be considered to be influencing

the procurement process. The Bank shall reject a proposal if it determines that any such gift has

been offered.
Joint Venture

4.1. Where a joint venture or any other form of partnership (JV) approach is proposed, bidders are

required to provide full details of the JV and nature of relationship with other JV members. Bidders

forming a JV shall nominate an authorized representative of the JV (duly evidenced by submitting a

power of attorney signed by a legally authorized representative of the JV) who shall have the

authority to conduct all business for and on behalf of all members and enter into the contract. Each

member shall meet the eligibility criteria as defined in the Presidential Directive.

4.2. A JV shall comprise no more than four members. At least one member shall provide 40% of the

contract sum and each of the other members shall provide at least 20% of the contract sum.

4.3. All members shall be jointly and severally liable for the performance of any resulting contract
Bid Prices

23.1. The prices submitted by bidders shall, except insofar as it is otherwise provided in the

contract, include all labour, supervision, materials, transportation, insurance, profit, general risks,

liabilities and obligations set out or implied in the contract.

23.2. The Bank shall award the contract based on value for money that takes into account the

whole life costing (i.e., life-cycle costs of the goods and services, maintenance, spare parts,

warranty, training, disposal, shipment, insurance) of the requirement.
Detailed SBC FEATURES

Features Value

Capacities Max signaling sessions 24000

Max Media sessions 24000

Max SRTP-RTP

Sessions

10000

Max Registered users 75000

Security Access Control DoS/DDoS line rate protection, bandwidth

throttling, dynamic blacklisting

VOIP FIREWALL RTP pinhole management, rogue RTP

detection and prevention, SIP message policy,

advanced RTP latching

Encryption and

Authentication

TLS, DTLS, SRTP, HTTPS, SSH, client/server

SIP Digest authentication, RADIUS Digest

Intrusion Detection

System

Detection and prevention of VoIP attacks, theft

of service and unauthorized access

interoperability SIP Interworking 3x redirect, REFER, PRACK, session timer,

early media, call hold, delayed of

Transport Mediation SIP over UDP/TCP/TLS/WebSocket/SCTP,

IPv4 / IPv6, RTP / SRTP (SDES/DTLS)

Transcoding and

Vocoders

Coder normalization including transcoding,

coder enforcement and re-prioritization,

extensive vocoder

support: G.711, G.723.1, G.726, G.729A/B,

GSM-FR, AMR-NB, AMR-WB (G.722.2), SILKNB/WB, Opus-NB/WB

Signal Conversion DTMF/RFC 2833/SIP, T.38 fax, packet-time

conversion
Features Value

WebRTC Gateway Interworking between WebRTC devices and

SIP networks. Supports WebSocket, Opus,

VP8 video coder, lite

ICE, DTLS, RTP multiplexing, secure RTCP

with feedback

Voice Quality

and SLA

Call Admission Control Based on bandwidth, session establishment

rate, number of connections/registrations

Standalone Survivability Standalone Survivability

Impairment Mitigation Packet Loss Concealment, Dynamic

Programmable Jitter Buffer, Silence

Suppression/Comfort Noise

Generation, RTP redundancy, broken

connection detection

High Availability SBC 1+1 high availability with active calls

preservation

Quality of Experience Access control and media quality

enhancements based on QoE and bandwidth

utilization

Voice Enhancement Transrating, RTCP-XR, Acoustic echo

cancellation, replacing voice profile due to

impairment detection, Fixed & dynamic voice

gain control

SIP Routing Routing Methods Request URL, IP address, FQDN, ENUM,

advanced LDAP, third-party routing control

through REST API

Advanced Routing

Criteria

QoE, bandwidth, SIP message (SIP request,

coder type, etc.), Layer-3 parameters

Redundancy Detection of proxy failures and subsequent

routing to alternative proxies

Routing Features Least-cost routing, call forking, load

balancing, E911 gateway support, emergency

call detection and prioritization

Cloud

Environments

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Vmware vSphere

Microsoft Azure

Documents

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