Supply and Installation of Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software

Original title: Supply and Installation of Enterprise Backup & Recovery Software Solution

Deadline

September 1, 2026

Closed

Published on July 28, 2026 at 12:00 AMModified on July 30, 2026 at 01:01 AM

Key information

Type: IT & Telecom
Location: Ethiopia
Deadline: September 1, 2026 at 12:00 AMClosed
Estimated Value: Not disclosed
Language of Notice: English

What is this tender about?

Supply and Installation of Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software is an it & telecom procurement opportunity published by Africa Union Commission in Ethiopia on July 28, 2026. Submissions closed on September 1, 2026. 1 official document is attached below.

Proven competence in delivering enterprise backup and recovery solutions based on recognized technologies such as Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, or equivalent. • Evidence of successfully completing at least three comparable enterprise backup and recovery projects within the last five years. • For each project reference, provide:• • • Client organization name. • Project scope and achieved outcomes. • Technologies and vendor solutions implemented. • Project duration and completion date. • Evidence of relevant manufacturer authorization, partnership status, or certifications for the proposed solution. • Evidence of adequate organizational resources, qualified technical experts, and established project-delivery methodologies. • Demonstrated experience integrating backup and recovery solutions with operating systems, directory services, enterprise applications, VMware vSphere, databases, cloud platforms, and other enterprise workloads. • Bidders shall submit a structured implementation methodology covering:
Assessment of the existing environment, workloads, data volumes, risks, dependencies, and recovery requirements, including workload criticality, backup scope, retention periods, and RPO/RTO targets. • Solution architecture, capacity sizing, storage tiering, network requirements, replication, disaster recovery integration, licensing, installation, and configuration. • Configuration of backup policies for physical servers, virtual machines, databases, applications, cloud workloads, and file systems. • Implementation of encryption, immutability, isolated backup copies, RBAC, MFA, malware protection, and privileged-access controls. • Integration with identity management, SIEM, monitoring, alerting, ticketing, and reporting systems. • Migration of existing backup configurations and protected workloads, where applicable, including off-site replication, archival, long-term retention, and media lifecycle management. • Backup, restoration, failover, failback, data-integrity, and disaster recovery testing to validate the agreed RPO/RTO targets. • Development of policies, procedures, recovery runbooks, governance controls, dashboards, and operational reports. • Training, knowledge transfer, technical documentation, operational handover, warranty, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and manufacturer escalation support. • Provide the proposed project team structure, including the roles and responsibilities of each key expert. • Submit detailed CVs demonstrating relevant qualifications, certifications, and hands-on experience in backup and recovery design, deployment, configuration, integration, and support. • Provide summaries of at least three comparable backup and recovery projects in which the proposed key personnel participated, clearly indicating their respective roles. • Demonstrate the capability to provide ongoing technical support, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and manufacturer escalation. • Submit evidence of post-implementation support, operational handover, and knowledge transfer delivered under previous comparable projects. 5. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from African Union Commission (AUC) Offices and inspect the bidding documents at the address given below from 0900Hrs to 1700 Hrs. East African Time at the address given below. 6. A complete set of bidding documents in English Language may be downloaded from https://au.int/en/bids free of charge. The downloadable version of the bidding documents, and any addenda to it, will be the binding one. 7. Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before 01 September 2026 at 12:30Hrs (East African Time). Bids need to be secured by Bid Security, the amount of Bid Security required is USD 2000.00. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of Bidders’ representatives who choose to attend at the address below at the African Union Commission (AUC) Offices, Third Floor, Building C, on 01 September 2026 at 12:30Hrs (East African Time). 8. 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 can result in ineligibility to be awarded World Bank-financed contracts. African Union Commission, Attn: Head of Supply Chain Management Division Building C, 3rd Floor, P.O Box 3243, Roosevelt Street Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251 (0) 11 551 7700 E-mail: Tender@AfricanUnion.org

What are the key dates?

Publication
July 28, 2026
Bid Submission Deadline
September 1, 2026
Evaluation & Award
Pending
Contract Signature
Pending

Procuring Entity

Name: Africa Union Commission
Country: Ethiopia
Contact person: Kaputo Chenga -Bwalya
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Which documents are available?

Tender Details
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