CAREN-3 Managed Capacity 2018.

Descriptions

This tender is for extending CAREN-3 network by connecting Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) to either Bishkek or Frankfurt. The CAREN-3 network serves the research and education sector of Central Asia with fully non-for-profit use. The network solution will serve the region with higher network capacities, greatly improved price /performance and, if possible, create a more regionally-centric network. Point-to-point bandwidth services are required to provide intra-Asian and Asia-Europe research network connectivity. This document invites organisations participating in the procurement (the tenderers) to tender for point to point connectivity for the CAREN-3 network:— between Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) NREN POP and Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) CAREN-3 POP,— between Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) NREN POP and Frankfurt (Germany) GEANT POP.Contract awarding is subject to the funding agreement between Geant and the EC. Contracts that may be awarded from this procurement will run for a maximum term of 3 years.It is planned that Geant Ltd will in the near future be dissolved and all of its assets and liabilities transferred to its parent company, Géant Vereniging, based in The Netherlands. Therefore, the contract is likely to be signed by Géant Vereniging rather than Geant limited.