ARMY WIDE AREA NETWORK (AWAN) - Indian Army

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(e) Guarantee that all software patches/upgrades, spares and consumables will be provided for a period of ten years including three years warranty irrespective of availability of OEM support. (f) Firms shortlisted for issue of RFP will be required to sign “Non- Disclosure Agreement” with “Government of India before issue of tender papers as well as before award of contract. (g) The firm should posses the following certifications. Copy of certificates to be attached to the RFI response. Evaluation Process (i) ISO 9001:2000 or equivalent certification for Quality management standards. (ii) ISO 27000:2005 or equivalent certification for Information Security Management System in case custom software is being developed by the Firm. (iii) ISO 20000/BS 15000 or equivalent by HW OEM partner for Information Technology Service Management. 7. Short listing of Firms will be carried out based on vendor responses to the compliance of eligibility criterion. Compliance is required to be submitted in the exact format given at Appendix ‘B’. Firm submitting compliance in any other format or non-submission of any documents or incomplete information shall automatically disqualify and will not be considered for the selection process. Firms may be asked to give a presentation on capability, capacity and experience to undertake the said project to the committee, if required. Miscellaneous Issues 8. Right to suspend the RFI process or part of the process to accept or reject any or all applications at any stage of the process and/ or to modify the process or any part thereof at any time without assigning any reason is reserved with the user without any obligation or liability whatsoever. Procedure for Response 9. Firms are requested to forward their response to the proposal of AWAN II as per requirement listed in the preceding paragraphs along with introductory brief of their companies as per proforma given at Appendix ‘C’. 10. The response to this RFI may be forwarded through registered post/courier by 1200 h on 19 Feb 2011 to the under mentioned address :-. Director Directorate General of Signals (Sigs-7) General Staff Branch Integrated HQ of MoD (Army) Room No 649, ‘A’ Wing, Sena Bhawan Rajaji Marg, New Delhi -110105 Telephone : 011-23019746 Fax No : 011-23018933
USER REQUIREMENTS Appendix ‘A’ (Refers to Para 4 of RFI for AWAN-II) 1. Project Army Wide Area Network (AWAN) Phase II is proposed for implementation of a desktop to desktop secure workflow and messaging solution for users of the Indian Army. It requires a single system which should provide basic services like formal and informal messaging, portal, FTP etc. The solution will also have its own directory services, security architecture based on asymmetric key algorithm, certification and registration services. This system will be implemented on IP/MPLS based framework. The proposed solution should be platform/OS independent. The technology used for the solution should be open standards with minimum operational complexity. 2. The network architecture for the Project AWAN-II will be hierarchical to cater for the need of assured application delivery, scalability and high availability. The existing media of the Indian Army will be made use of for this project. It will have self organizing network architecture which will provide high resilience and fast convergence with minimal network failover time. Management traffic should be restricted to minimum during change in network topology, to avoid unnecessary flooding of the network and bandwidth wastage. A disaster recovery should be built into the system at various levels to ensure continuous availability of services and will be transparent to the users. All the network devices should be manageable through a central NMS. The system should also be able to work with Combat Net Radio and in poor media conditions i.e. as low as 600 bps. 3. The implementation of the proposed solution is envisaged as given below:- (a) Hardware. The system will be implemented in a hierarchical architecture. It will be based on the concept of communication node called Message Processing Server (MPS). These MPSs will be installed at approximately (300-500) locations on Pan India basis and this number may further increase as and when MPSs from various static locations are split, uprooted and deployed in an operational area. Most of these MPSs will be static. However, certain MPSs are required to be mounted on vehicles, to be provided by user. These transportable nodes will cater for those users who move out temporarily for short duration. Each communication node will comprise of major equipments like routers, switches, servers, firewall, IPS etc. The configuration and scale of equipments at each node may vary depending upon the user requirement. AWAN-II will also have support for integration with other IP/MPLS or ATM based network. The system will also be integrated with the inline encryption device provided by the user to be used between clients and servers. (b) Software. Besides the standard operating system/firmware required for the servers/network equipments following application software will form part of the project:-
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