The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional grouping of 21 African States which have agreed to promote regional integration through trade development and transport facilitation. COMESA’s objectives include sustainable economic development through economic and social progress in all Member States through increased co-operation and integration in all fields of development particularly in Trade, Customs and Monetary Affairs, Transport, Communication and Information Technology, Industry and Agriculture, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources including Gender and Social Development. The Secretariat is based in Lusaka, Zambia. More information can be obtained from the COMESA website www.comesa.int.

The COMESA Secretariat intends to develop Data Centre houses computing servers and core network resources that require high availability, limited and controlled physical access to the facility, protected from fire and safety hazard, adequately supplied with power utility, controlled heat and ventilation system, to ensure critical services are always operating. The objective of the assignment is to design, supply and installation of a containerized data centre facilities and perform the necessary civil works and training of COMESA IT network staff in data center technologies.

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Designing, Supply and Installation of a Containerized Data Centre at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat in Lusaka, Zambia.