/ CORP4219
INVITATION TO TENDER – REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL / Unique Identifier / 240-54568432
Revision / 1.2
Revision Date / November 2016
Group Technology & Commercial Division
Technical Questions Response
Proven track record in IaaS – Technical Capability – Question #2.1 and #2.2

REFERENCE LETTER – Have you supported +1000 physical servers running windows server, Linux and Unix between 2014 – 2017? Have you supported +2000 virtual servers hosted on VMWare and PowerVM between 2014 – 2017?

Tenderers Name:

Customer Name:

Number Physical Servers: ______

Number Virtual Servers: ______

Period of service:

Description of services provided:

Contact details of reference

Name, Surname:

Designation:

Contact details (email and phone):

Signed:

ReferenceTenderer CIO/CFO

Date:Date:

Technical Questions Response

Technical Capability: Service Delivery Capability

(Technical Capability Question # 2.1)

Haveyou supported +1000physical servers running windows server, Linux and Unix between 2014– 2017?

Operating System / Unix / Linux / Windows
No of servers

Other attachment of tenderer (optional additional information):

I, (name and surname) , CIO/CFOof(company) , hereby declare that the above is true and correct.

Sign:

Date:

Technical Questions Response

Technical Capability: Service Delivery Capability

(Technical Capability Question # 2.2)

Have you supported +2000 virtual servers hosted on VMWare and PowerVM between 2014–2017?

Hypervisor / VMWare / PowerVM
No of servers

Other attachment of tenderer (optional additional information):

I, (name and surname) , CIO/CFOof(company) , hereby declare that the above is true and correct.

Sign:

Date:

Technical Questions Response

Technical Capability: Service Delivery Capability

(Technical Capability Question # 2.5)

Have you previously supplied and supported an On-Premise private IaaS environment?

Tenderers Name:

Customer Name:

Period of service:

Description of services provided:

Contact details of reference

Name, Surname:

Designation:

Contact details (email and phone):

Signed:

ReferenceTenderer CIO/CFO

Date:Date:

Technical Questions Response

Technical Capability: Service Delivery Capability

(Technical Capability Question # 2.6)

Have you previously supplied and supported an Off-Premise private IaaS environment?

Tenderers Name:

Customer Name:

Period of service:

Description of services provided:

Contact details of reference

Name, Surname:

Designation:

Contact details (email and phone):

Signed:

ReferenceTenderer CIO/CFO

Date:Date:

Technical Questions Response

Technical Capability: Service Delivery Capability

(Technical Capability Question # 2.7)

Have you previously supplied and supported a Public IaaS environment?

Tenderers Name:

Customer Name:

Period of service:

Description of services provided:

Contact details of reference

Name, Surname:

Designation:

Contact details (email and phone):

Signed:

ReferenceTenderer CIO/CFO

Date:Date:

Technical Questions Response

Technical Capability: ITIL and ISO Maturity

(Technical Capability Question # 2.8)

Is the Tenderer at minimum ITIL v3 maturity level 3 rated by an independent authority?

Company name of Tenderer:

Company name of independent authority:

(Tick the appropriate box indicating the maturity level)

Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3 / Level 4 / Level 5

I, (name and surname) , CIO/CFO of(company) , hereby declare that the above is true and correct.

Sign:

Date:

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Technical Capability: Internal Management Process

(Technical Capability Question # 2.10)

Has the Tendererpreviously implemented a minimum of threeof the continuous service improvement processes listed below at a previous customer?

REFERENCE LETTER: Continuous Service Improvement

Tenderers Name:

Customer Name:

Period of service:

Description of processes implemented:

Process / Yes / No
Reporting - Have you used reporting information to review and improve your service at a previous customer?
Innovation - Have you used innovation to improve the IT environment and your service at a previous customer?
Process Improvement – Have you implemented business process improvement at a previous customer, to do things better, faster and more efficiently?
Cost Savings – Have you assisteda previous customer to achieve cost saving targets without compromising SLA's?

Contact details of reference

Name, Surname:

Designation:

Contact details (email and phone):

Signed:

ReferenceTenderer CIO/CFO

Date:Date:

Technical Questions Response

Technical Capability: Internal Management Process

(Technical Capability Question # 2.11)

Will the Tenderer implement all of the continuous service improvement processes listed below at Eskom?

Description of processes to be implemented:

Process / Yes / No
Reporting - Have you used reporting information to review and improve your service at a previous customer?
Innovation - Have you used innovation to improve the IT environment and your service at a previous customer?
Process Improvement – Have you implemented business process improvement at a previous customer, to do things better, faster and more efficiently?
Cost Savings – Have you assisted a previous customer to achieve cost saving targets without compromising SLA's?

I, (name and surname) , CIO/CFO of(company) , hereby declare that the above is true and correct.

Sign:

Date:

Technical Questions Response

Transition Plan

(Transition Plan Framework Guidelines Question # 6)

The following guidelines should be utilised when developing the Transition plan for submission.

  1. A high-Level Roadmap with key milestones
  2. Detailed Project plan reflecting the transition of the service
  3. Detail all assumptions
  4. Detail all risks and mitigation plans
  5. Inclusions and Exclusions
  6. RACI matrix

Technical Questions Response

Transition Plan

(Transition Plan Question # 7)

REFERENCE LETTER 1– Service Transition Success

Tenderers Name:

Customer Name:

Number of Servers:

Contracted Period of Transition:

Description of Scope of Transition:

Contact details of reference

Name, Surname:

Designation:

Contact details (email and phone):

I, (name and surname) , CIO/CFO of (customer company) , hereby declare that the Transition was completed within scope, time and budget.

Signed:

Reference TendererCIO/CFO

Date:Date:

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Transition Plan

(Transition Plan Question # 7)

REFERENCE LETTER 2 (Optional) – Service Transition Success

Tenderers Name:

Customer Name:

Number of Servers:

Contracted Period of Transition:

Description of Scope of Transition:

Contact details of reference

Name, Surname:

Designation:

Contact details (email and phone):

I, (name and surname) , CIO/CFO of (customer company) , hereby declare that the Transition was completed within scope, time and budget.

Signed:

Reference TendererCIO/CFO

Date:Date: