BID NO. 37/2023: PROVISION OF LICENSING, MAINTENANCE SUPPORT OF MIMECAST CLOUD EMAIL SECURITY AND THREAT PROTECTION (OR EQUIVALENT)

Sarah Baartman District Municipality invites bids from suitably experience service providers for the Provision of Licensing, Maintenance Support of Mimecast Cloud Email Security and Threat Protection (or Equivalent) for a 3-year period. Prospective bidders must be certified by Mimecast and must submit Mimecast (or equivalent) Partnership Reseller Certification. Failure to submit proof of the certification will result in disqualification. The certification must be in the name of the bidder.

Bid documents with the necessary specifications may be obtained at may be obtained at a non-refundable cost of R200.00 from the Supply Chain Management Unit, 4th Floor, 32 Govan Mbeki Avenue, Gqeberha, tel. 041 508 7007. Alternatively, bid documents may be downloaded free of charge from the E-Tender Portal (https://etenders.treasury.gov.za) or the municipal website (https://sarahbaartman.co.za).

The qualifying bids will be evaluated on a 80/20 preference points system, as per the Preferential Procurement Regulations, 2022, where a maximum of 80 points will be allocated for price and a maximum of 20 points will be allocated for specific goals. The bids will also be evaluated on functionality. Bidders that do not obtain a minimum score of 70% on functionality criteria will be excluded from further evaluation.

Functionality will be assessed as follows:

Where: 1 = Poor; 2 = Acceptable; 3 = Good; 4 = Very Good; and 5 = Excellent

Bids in a sealed envelope clearly marked “BID NO. 37/2023: PROVISION OF LICENSING, MAINTENANCE SUPPORT OF MIMECAST CLOUD EMAIL SECURITY AND THREAT PROTECTION (OR EQUIVALENT)” must be placed in the tender box, 4th Floor, 32 Govan Mbeki Avenue, Gqeberha, before 12h00 noon on Wednesday, 21 February 2024. Thereafter bids will be opened in public in the Committee Room No. 1, 6th Floor, 32 Govan Mbeki Avenue, Gqeberha.

Prospective bidders must be registered on the Central Supplier Database (CSD). Failure to comply shall render the bid null and void. Failure to submit any compulsory document(s) shall render the bid null and void.

The original document collected from the municipality must be submitted or, if documents are printed from the websites, the original, printed document must be submitted. Bids may only be submitted on the bid documentation provided by the municipality.

Late, incomplete, facsimiled or emailed bids will not be accepted for consideration. The only or lowest bid received shall not necessarily be accepted. SBDM reserves the right to accept part of or the full bid.