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Country : Cote d'Ivoire

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

Deadline : 10 Jun 2021

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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

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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

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