Datacenter Certification Tender in Cote d'Ivoire - 32904676

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Country: Cote d'Ivoire

Summary: Datacenter Certification

Deadline: 28 May 2019

Posting Date: 15 May 2019

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32904676

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Competition: ICB

Financier: African Development Bank (AfDB)

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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79132000 - Certification services

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Expression of Interest are invited for Datacenter Certification.
1. The African Development Bank (AfdBD) hereby invites Consulting Firms to indicate their interest in the following Assignment: AFDB Headquarters’ Datacenter Certification.
2. The objective of this assignment is to recruit a construction-engineering firm to support the Bank during its Headquarters’ Datacenter Tiers certification design phase. The scope of the mission is related to Tier III design certification support according to the UPTIME Institute Company’s standard.
The technical areas concerned are power supply (high voltage and clean power), air conditioning, and building works. The mission of the consulting firm is to produce all missing and updated diagrams (graphic for high power, HVAC, layout of other equipment) based on the available architectural diagram descriptions and nomenclatures of all equipment. The company will support the Bank for the acquisition of equipment and works to correct eventual HQ data center design deficiencies vis a vis Tiers III standard.
The company will also provide summary presentation of the project in English according to Uptime requirements.
The assignment for the Consulting firm will cover, but will not be limited to, the following activities part of the tiers Certification of design documents phase. The Consultant firm will support the Bank in:
§ Preparing the working session with the certifying body
§ Gathering and producing the documentation required by the certification body:
- Analyze the current documentation and update it if required
- Draw the Datacenter diagrams and plans if some are missing
- Align the documentation with the certifying body rules for Tier III design documentation.
• Analysing the Certifying body feedbacks
• Producing an action plan to solve potential issues that might threaten the success of the TCDD
The detailed terms of reference are attached as Annex.
3. Experience of the firm and Staff
• The Consulting firm must be able to:
- Draft plans, diagrams and calculation notes according to the standards of the certification body.
- Master the ASHRAE standards for selecting and regulating HVAC equipment and be able to present a TCDD (Tiers Certification Design) file according to Uptime's requirements.
- Analyse existing documents, update them if necessary, draw missing plans for the Datacenter and modify them to bring the design into line with Tier III rules if necessary.
• The Consulting firm must be an ATD (Accredited Tier Designer - Uptime Institute) and have already participated in a certification. Uptime's Design certification is very detailed and follows a very specific process.
• The Consultants proposed by the firm shall meet the following minimum criteria:
o A minimum of 5 years of expertise in Tier III datacenter certifications;
o Extensive knowledge datacenter operations.
4. The Corporate IT Services Department (CHIS) invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested eligible Consulting Firms or associations of Consulting Firms shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating their ability to provide the services (documentation, references for similar services, experience in comparable Assignments, availability of qualified staff, CVs of Staff, etc.).
5. The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Rules and Procedure for the Use of Corporate Consultants. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consulting Firm does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include it in the shortlist.
6. The duration of the assignment is expected for 06 months.
7. Interested Consulting Firms may obtain further information at the address below during office hours 09:00 to 17:00 hours, Abidjan Local Time.
8. Expressions of interest must be sent by email at the address below before Tuesday 28 May 2019 17:00 hours, Abidjan Local Time and mention “Expression of Interest for AFDB Headquarters’ Datacenter Certification”.

For the attention of: IT Recruitment Team

African Development Bank

Corporate IT Services Department (CHIS)

Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 B.P. 1387,

Abidjan, CÔTE d'IVOIRE

Tel: (+225) 20 26 22 61

Email: [email protected]
1. BACKGROUND

1.1. Introduction to African Development Bank (AfDB)

The African Development Bank (the “Bank” or “AfDB”) is a continental multilateral development

institution established in 1963 by an international Treaty, the Agreement establishing the African

Development Bank. The Bank’s membership currently consists of 54 African states and 26 nonAfrican states. Additional information on the Bank is available on the Bank’s website

(www.afdb.org).

The Bank has approximately over 2, 000 staff members, who have been recruited from a wide

geographic area only limited by membership in the Bank. There are currently 80 different

nationalities from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas represented within the Bank making the

institution multicultural in every sense of the word. The Bank has two official languages: English

and French. It co-operates with a large network of international development partners.

1.2. Corporate Information Technology (IT) Department (CHIS)

The function of the Corporate IT Services department (CHIS) is to align the IT delivery strategy

along with the Bank’s business strategy, to increase the organizational effectiveness through

efficient use of Information Systems (IS). The department is mandated by the Bank to deliver the

best possible IT services for Bank staff to help achieve the results that will get the Bank closer to

accomplishing its development goals.

2. INTRODUCTION

The Bank's Headquarters building is a high-rise building with an area of approximately 46, 000 m²

comprising offices, meeting rooms, technical premises and various service rooms. It is located in

the Plateau district of Abidjan in Côte d' Ivoire and consists of two contiguous towers of 18 floors

each, a ground floor, a mezzanine and three basements.

As part of the refurbishment works of this building that were finalized in December 2015, new

equipment and installations were carried out by the building contractor and its subcontractors.

Among other installations carried out by the contractor as part of the building renovation work, a

TIER III data center (concurrently maintainable) was constructed in accordance with Uptime

Institute standards. The data center is built around 6 rooms i) a Main data center that hosts servers,

data storage equipment and some network equipment ii) 2 network rooms (for redundancy

purposes) called North and South and iii) 2 Telco rooms (telecommunication) for the same

reasons and iv) 2 UPS rooms. The data center is about 300 m2 (190 m2 for technical rooms : main

data center, network rooms, UPS rooms). The Bank's Data Centre has been operational since

April 2016.

The data center conformity to the tiers III standard has never been formally tested. Since its

operationalization, the HQ Data Center was faced to some major incidents. In addition, some audit

missions conducted by Internal Audit Department have already raised up some issues related to

the cooling system and congestion into some rooms of the data-center. All these issues lead us to

check the compliance of the HQ data center against tiers III standards.

The Bank has decided now to compete for the UPTIME Institute company’s tiers III Certification

program. The purpose of this decision is to ensure that the data center that has been constructed is really a tiers III data center as it is supposed to be. The potential deviations from the tiers III

standards will be addressed by taking appropriate measures. The ultimate goal is to comply with

best practices in data center management and improve data center facilities availability.

A tier III data center architecture is highly recommended for companies with a worldwide

presence like AfDB. Indeed, the Bank’s services require consistent uptime due to availability

(Email) or financial penalty issues (financial applications). A datacenter is classified as a Tier III,

when it is possible to maintain all of its facilities without stopping operations.

The purpose of the whole certification process that the Bank plan to achieve with the collaboration

of UPTIME (the unique organization in the area of data center certification) is to effectively reach

the tier III architecture of the datacentre, in order to meet the following objectives:

i) audit the design and the construction works and documentation of the HQ data center

according to UPTIME Institute Tiers III formal standards;

ii) pro-actively identify and correct all potential data center facilities (cooling, power

systems, etc…) design deficiencies that may later impact data center operation

iii) conduct formal and full tests of the data center facilities resiliency so that potential

incidents that may affect data center operation are detected and mitigation measures

are taken earlier.

The Bank has approached UPTIME Institute (the Tiers III certification body), to gather

information on data center certification program requirement. The certification program comprises

three steps i) Tiers III design certification ii) Tiers III construction certification and iii) Tiers III

operation certification.

Concerning the first step and just for this step, UPTIME has strongly recommended that the Bank

recruit a company to support the Bank project team in this phase achievement.

3. ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVES

The objective of this assignment is to recruit a construction engineering firm to support the Bank

during the Tiers certification design phase. The scope of the mission is related to Tier III design

certification support according to the UPTIME Institute Company’s standard.

The technical areas c

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