High Availability Tenders

The bid notice states that implementation must be completed within 2 months from the date of appointment, including fibre activation, installation, router deployment, testing, and handover.

The bid notice states that quotations will be evaluated and adjudicated according to the following criteria: relevant specifications, value for money, capability to execute the work, and contract LN W SCM policy PPPFA associated regulations.

The bid notice states that bidders will be evaluated on mandatory first, then functionality and only those qualifying by achieving the minimum cut off point of 70 will be evaluated on administrative compliance and then price and preference points.

The implementation must be completed within 90 calendar days.

Payment will be made within 30 days after receipt of the final original tax invoices.

All equipment must include a minimum 3year warranty.

The evaluation criteria include mandatory legislative requirements, technical specifications, functionality, and price/B-BBEE points.

Bidders must provide proof of a valid HPE Gold or above partnership level and have valid ISO **** for information security and ISO **** for quality management.

There will be a compulsory briefing session on March 10, 2026.

The contract value for this bid is estimated to be above R1 000 ****.

The bid notice states that Postbank will evaluate based on functional and capability fit, information security and compliance fit, technical and operating requirements fit, ability to provide local support, architecture quality, implementation methodology, vendor track record, financial capacity to deliver the solution throughout the contract, bidders clients signed and dated references on the bidders clients company letterhead, and total cost of ownership. Postbank will evaluate based on: functional and capability fit including mandatory requirements. information security and compliance fit. technical and operating requirements fit. ability to provide local support. architecture quality. implementation methodology. vendor track record. financial capacity to deliver the solution throughout the contract. bidders clients signed and dated references on the bidders clients company letterhead. total cost of ownership.

The bid notice states that the preferred bidders must demonstrate experience implementing IMBS solutions or equivalent large-scale digital banking platforms at scale, provide at least two banking or financial services client references, demonstrate PCI DSS and ISO **** compliance, show financial stability, and demonstrate proven experience designing, deploying and operating production-grade banking or financial services workloads on Amazon Web Services AWS preferably in the South Africa region. The preferred bidders must: demonstrate experience implementing imbs solutions or equivalent largescale digital banking platforms at scale. provide at least two banking or financialservices client references local or international. it will be advantageous if the references refer or relate to the solution the bidder is proposing for postbank. demonstrate pci dss and iso **** compliance organisation andor platform, as applicable. show financial stability, including evidence of longterm viability to support postbank over the contract period. demonstrate proven experience designing, deploying and operating productiongrade banking or financial services workloads on amazon web services aws preferably in the south africa region.