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Solicitation number JC 04-23-928

Publication date

Closing date and time 2023/10/11 14:00 EDT

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    Description
    McMaster University uses www.MERX.com to post our opportunities and Bonfire to receive bids and for question submissions. Please go to www.MERX.com to download the bid documents. All proponents must obtain the RFSQ from www.MERX.com, failure to obtain the RFSQ from www.MERX.com will result in disqualification.

    McMaster University invites qualified Cisco Certified Gold Partner suppliers to submit responses for the supply of goods and services related to support, warranty, and maintenance of the University’s established Cisco network environment and data centre in accordance with the terms of this Request for Proposals (RFP).

    The primary deliverable for this RFP is for the Successful Proponent, as a Cisco Certified Gold Partner supplier, to non-exclusively supply and deliver Cisco Certified equipment, and the related services including support, warranty, and maintenance.

    The deliverables must also include SMARTnet Service, annual maintenance, Cisco Enterprise Agreements, Cisco SolutionsPlus products and related support contracts. Proponents must bid the SMARTnet Service support as identified in this document as a minimum; however, the University will review alternate support models. 

    Supply, delivery, configuration and disposal (full lifecycle management capability) as required of hardware and software solutions to enhance and expand the existing environment must also be included.

    Bidders must quote the entire bid.  Partial bids will not be accepted.  

      Bidding and Documents are available on http://www.merx.com. Fees may apply; See https://www.merx.com/public/pricing for more information.

      Contract duration

      The estimated contract period will be 36 month(s).

      Trade agreements

      • Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
      • Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
      • Please refer to tender description or tender documents

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      Contact information

      Contracting organization

      Organization
      McMaster University
      Address
      1280 Main Street West
      Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8
      Canada
      Contracting authority
      Carol Rizzo
      Email
      rizzoc2@mcmaster.ca
      Bidding details

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      Summary information

      Language(s)
      English
      Contract duration
      36 month(s)
      Procurement method
      Competitive – Open Bidding

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