SELECTION OF CONSULTING FIRMS BY THE WORLD BANK GROUP
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)
Electronic Submissions through WBGeProcure RFx Now
ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
Assignment Title: Sao Tome e Principe: Assessment of a Disaster-Resilient Data Center Site and Development of a Transition and Disaster Recovery Plan
Assignment Countries:
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
A consultancy (firm) is sought to support Government of Sao Tome e Principe with the following four activities:
1.Disaster and climate risk evaluation of the current National Data Center
2.Assessment of a New Disaster-Resilient Data Center Site
3.Development of a Data Center Transition Plan
4. Development of a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan (including determination of DR site).
Please see the attached Terms of Reference for more details.
ELIGIBILITY
Please note that at least one of of the team members should speak Portuguese (if not, the team is responsible for contracting interpretation/translation services).
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The World Bank Group invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested firms must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. for firms; CV and cover letter for individuals). Please note that the total size of all attachments should be less than 5MB. Firms may associate to enhance their qualifications unless otherwise stated in the solicitation documents. Where a group of firms associate to submit an EOI, they must indicate which is the lead firm. If shortlisted, the firm identified in the EOI as the lead firm will be invited to the request for proposal (RFP) phase.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through WBGeProcure RFx Now
NOTES
Following this invitation for EOI, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding.
Only those firms which have been shortlisted will be invited to participate in the RFP phase. No notification or debrief will be provided to firms which have not been shortlisted.
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