Supply and Installation of Enterprise Backup & Recovery Software Solution

Invitation for Bids (IFB) Issuing date of the IFB: 28 July 2026 Name of Country: Ethiopia Name of Project: Building Institutions and Systems to Harness and Realize Agenda (BIASHARA) 2063 Project Brief Description of the Information System: The scope of the assignment includes the standardization and centralization of backup and recovery services across all MISD managed environments within the African Union Commission. It includes protection of critical workloads hosted in the AU Data Center (VMware-based infrastructure), cloud-hosted systems in Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365 services that support collaboration and institutional operations across AU organs. The scope also encompasses core business applications such as ERP, identity services, file systems, web portals, database systems, departmental application servers, and mission-critical platforms. Grant Number: IDA-E2020-001 IFB Title: Supply and Installation of Enterprise Backup & Recovery Software Solution IFB Number: ET-AUC-555562-GO-RFB 1. This Invitation for Bids (IFB) follows the General Procurement Notice (GPN) for this project that appeared in UNDB online on 01 June 2023 2. The African Union has received a Grant from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / International Development Association] toward the cost of Building Institutions and Systems to Harness and Realize Agenda (BIASHARA) 2063 Project , and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this grant to payments under the agreement resulting from this IFB: Supply and Installation of Enterprise Backup & Recovery Software Solution. 3. The African Union Commission serves as the implementing agency for the project and now invites sealed bids from eligible Bidders for Supply and Installation of Enterprise Backup & Recovery Software Solution . The assignment will standardize and centralize backup and recovery services across MISD-managed environments within the AUC, including protection of critical workloads hosted in the AU Data