It’s a somewhat quiet week for the ICT sector on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with smaller municipal requirements providing tender quantity, if not value.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is calling for thought leaders and innovators in their field to provide managed ICT security services.
“The cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, and organisations must protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks,” it says in its tender documentation.
“From ransomware to well-disguised phishing attempts, cyber criminals are getting craftier. However, as organisations across industries face talent shortages, several IT departments need help to keep their security teams fully capacitated with employees with the right skills. DFFE is also affected by these crises.
“Over the past five years, the ongoing cyber threat landscape has often exposed national government agencies, state-owned entities and other government-run organisations. The threat to government has only intensified, as has been apparent for all citizens to notice.”
The required security services will assist the department in managing and reporting on governance requirements, as well as help it run its complex environment. The department notes that investments have already been made, and leveraging these investments is critical to its cyber resilience and compliance mandates.
The successful service provider will assist with day-to-day operational capabilities across its security tools and solutions, including, but not limited to, firewall, endpoint protection, e-mail protection, vulnerability management, incident and response, and cyber awareness culture measurement.
The department also notes it has an entitlement from Microsoft E5 Security for 3 850 officials, which the service provider must use.
It has around 150 offices across the country, with 80 connected through the departmental network, while the rest are not. The department runs a hybrid environment and has adopted a multi-cloud approach.
It warns that only bidders that are accredited in SITA transversal contract RFB 1183 will be considered.
Other tenders that make this week’s top 10:
- The DFFE also wishes to appoint a professional service provider, from SITA transversal contract RFB 1183, for the renewal of Mimecast e-mail security services, with support. The department notes it has seen a rise in phishing attempts that have resulted in its domain being listed globally, preventing it from sending and receiving e-mails and triggering a need to improve its e-mail security posture.
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is looking for a Microsoft licence solution provider (LSP) to administer the Microsoft licences enrolment for the sub-150 licences. This follows a framework agreement signed with Microsoft on behalf of government in 2016, which caters for government organisations with less than 150 users to be able to benefit from discount pricing, by utilising the Microsoft enterprise licence agreement that SITA created specifically for its purpose. It notes all Microsoft enterprise agreements require a Microsoft LSP to administer the agreement.
SITA is also advertising for the acquisition, support and maintenance of mainframe capacity management software for its Centurion data centre. The agency notes its mainframe hosting services team is currently using a capacity management solution in the mainframe environment on the z/OS Mainframe and Mainview Server for reporting on the usage of the mainframe systems and the stats collection for the SLA monthly reporting to management and clients.
Transnet invites bids for the supply and installation of video conferencing systems at the Transnet Port Terminal (TPT) Durban head office. TPT currently uses Transnet’s centralised Avaya conferencing system; however, an installation of a new Microsoft Teams room is required due to the diminishing life span of the current equipment.
- The City of Cape Town is calling for software development services to develop, maintain and support the current enterprise performance management application based on open source software. The contract will include the front-end (client side), back-end (server side) and application programming interface.
The city also requires the supply and installation of structured data cabling infrastructure on an ad hoc basis. This infrastructure mainly supports the city’s local area network, WiFi installations and data centre cabling, connecting 22 000 online users.
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) is looking for financial reporting software. The software should include, as a minimum, annual financial statements that comply with all GRAP and relevant public sector legislative requirements and integrate or provide an interface with Sage X3; and allow for consolidated and per programme management accounts in accordance with SANSA’s predetermined template and output to accommodate various data sets.
The Council for Medical Schemes wishes to appoint a service provider for the replacement of the accreditation system. The primary focus of the project is to enable the digital capturing of managed care organisations (MCOs) and administrator information, focused on onboarding new MCOs and administrators, as well as updating existing application information. This system should also meet the business requirements necessary for the broker accreditation team to receive, review, report and issue the outcome of an application captured by individual brokers and brokerages in an efficient manner.
The National Credit Regulator (NCR) is looking for a service provider to supply, deliver and support and maintain an additional physical storage device or appliance, as well as upgrade Veeam software licences from socket-based licensing to Veeam universal licence. The NCR notes it is in the process of establishing a second building in Randjespark, Midrand, as a disaster recovery site.
New tenders
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
The national department wishes to appoint a professional service provider, from SITA transversal contract RFB 1183, for the renewal of Mimecast e-mail security services, with support for five years.
Tender no: DFFE-SITA003(24-25)
Information: SCM officials, Tel: 012 399 9892, E-mail: Tenders@dffe.gov.za
Closing date: 11 October 2024
Tags: Software, security, e-mail, services, professional services, support and maintenance
A professional service provider is also sought to render managed ICT security services to the department for five years. Bidders should be accredited on SITA’s RFB 1183 transversal contract.
Tender no: DFFE-SITA004 (24-25)
Information: SCM officials, Tel: 012 399 9892, E-mail: Tenders@dffe.gov.za
Closing date: 10 October 2024
Tags: Security, managed security, managed services, services, professional services
State Information Technology Agency
The agency is looking for a Microsoft licence solution provider to administer the Microsoft licences enrolment for the sub-150 licences.
Non-compulsory briefing: 30 September – Microsoft Teams
Tender no: RFB 3003-2024
Information: Hlamalani Shipalana, Tel: 012 482 2543, E-mail: hlamalani.shipalana@sita.co.za
Closing date: 15 October 2024
Tags: Software, software licensing
SITA is also advertising for the acquisition, support and maintenance of mainframe capacity management software for its Centurion data centre, for three years.
Non-compulsory briefing: 30 September – Microsoft Teams
Tender no: RFB 3004-2024
Information: Andisiwe Kunaka, Tel: 012 482 3293, E-mail: andisiwe.kunaka@sita.co.za
Closing date: 15 October 2024
Tags: Software, mainframe capacity management, services, support and maintenance
Transnet
Bids are invited for the supply and installation of video conferencing systems at the Transnet Port Terminal Durban head office.
Non-compulsory briefing: 30 September – Microsoft Teams, Link
Tender no: TPT/2024/09/0024/77807/RFP
Information: Kagiso Lande, Tel: 031 308 8347, E-mail: Kagiso.Lande@transnet.net
Closing date: 9 October 2024
Tags: Hardware, software, video conferencing
City of Cape Town
The Western Cape metro requires provision of software development services, to develop, maintain and support the current enterprise performance management application based on open source software.
Non-compulsory briefing: 4 October – Link
Tender no: 081S/2024/25
Information: Enquiries, e-mail: OPMSystemAdmin@capetown.gov.za
Closing date: 22 October 2024
Tags: Software, software development, services, support and maintenance, enterprise performance management, open source software
The city is also calling for the supply and installation of structured data cabling infrastructure.
Non-compulsory briefing: 4 October – Link
Tender no: 79S/2024/25
Information: Yandisa Sizamo, Tel: 021 400 6851, E-mail: SCM.Tenders4@capetown.gov.za
Closing date: 30 October 2024
Tags: Hardware, networking, data, cabling
South African National Space Agency
SANSA invites bids for the provision of financial reporting software.
Compulsory briefing: 11 October – Microsoft Teams
Tender no: CO/088/09/2024
Information: SANSA SCM, Tel: 012 844 0500, E-mail: scm@sansa.org.za
Closing date: 25 October 2024
Tags: Software, financial reporting, reports
Council for Medical Schemes
The council wishes to appoint a service provider for the replacement of the accreditation system.
Compulsory briefing: 1 October
Tender no: CMS07/2024/2025
Information: Vuyelwa Duduma, Tel: 012 431 0500, E-mail: v.duduma@medicalschemes.co.za
Closing date: 14 October 2024
Tags: Software, accreditation management
National Credit Regulator
The authority is looking for a service provider to supply, deliver and support and maintain an additional storage device and upgrade Veeam software licences.
Compulsory briefing: 30 September – Microsoft Teams, Meeting ID: 331 632 751 160, Passcode: poxDwJ
Tender no: NCR933.09.2024
Information: Procurement, Tel: 011 554 2700, E-mail: procurement@ncr.org.za
Closing date: 14 October 2024
Tags: Hardware, software, storage, software licensing, services, support and maintenance
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