Backup and Recovery Solution
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SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
BUDGET
VerifiedCONTRACT DURATION
TIMELINE
Issue of Invitation to Tender Document: September 21st, 2026
Deadline for Tenderers to raise questions: October 9th, 2026
Deadline for University of Dundee to respond to questions: October 14th, 2026
Deadline for submission of tenders: October 26th, 2026
Evaluation of Submissions – Stage 1: November 2nd, 2026
Evaluation of Submissions – Stage 2: November 5th, 2026
Evaluation of Tenders Completed: November 9th, 2026
10 Day Mandatory Standstill Period: November 10th, 2026 to November 24th, 2026
QUESTION DEADLINE
CONTACTS
Primary procurement contact — name, title, email, and phone
Additional decision-makers and their departments
Issuing Agency
University Of Dundee
DESCRIPTION
The agency is seeking a vendor to provide, implement, transition, and support a SaaS enterprise backup and recovery solution. The solution must integrate with existing infrastructure and protect workloads across VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox, and physical server environments. The agency intends to establish new backup sets, and migration of historical repositories or backup data from the incumbent service is not anticipated.
The solution must support at least 1,000 protected entities and provide two geographically separate cloud-based storage locations, each with a minimum capacity of 200 TiB. It must be managed through a web-based SaaS interface, avoid the need for an on-premises management server except where supporting agents are required, and provide a dedicated university tenancy with segregated data, configuration, administration, and access controls.
Required capabilities include application-level backups for Active Directory, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, MongoDB, Office 365, and Exchange Server; image-based or file-and-folder backups for Linux and Windows physical servers; immutable backups; scheduled automated recovery testing; source-side compression; and encryption of data in transit and at rest following deduplication and compression. The vendor must provide an implementation and transition plan, support a proof-of-concept environment, demonstrate backup and recovery of representative workloads, and successfully demonstrate VMware virtual machine recovery. Questions must be submitted by October 7, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
- When is the submission deadline?
- Submissions are due October 26, 2026. Questions must be submitted by October 9, 2026.
- What is the budget for this RFP?
- The published budget is $330,000.
- Who issued this RFP?
- It was issued by University Of Dundee. The work is located in Dundee, United Kingdom.
- Who is a good fit for this opportunity?
- Enterprise backup and disaster recovery software provider
- Experience supporting VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and physical server environments
- Proven SaaS data protection capabilities for databases, Microsoft 365, and directory services
- Ability to provide geographically separated cloud storage with immutable, encrypted backups
- Experienced implementation team capable of proof-of-concept testing and recovery validation
- Established provider of ongoing technical support and managed backup services
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