Japanese Government Procurement

National University Corporation - Notice of request for submission of materialsComputer Infrastructure System 1 Set

This procurement is covered by the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement or Japan-UK Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.

Japanese

Publishing date Mar 26, 2021
Type of notice Notice of request for submission of materials
Procurement entity National University Corporation - Kyoto
Classification
0014 Office Machines & Automatic Data Processing Equipment
Summay of notice ⑴ Classification of the products to be procured : 14
⑵ Nature and quantity of the products to be rent : Computer Infrastructure System 1 Set
⑶ Type of the procurement : Rent
⑷ Basic requirements of the procurement :
A The system should consist of a server infrastructure, a group of educational terminals, a server management system, a terminal management system, a printingsystem, etc., and various services such as e-mail, e-Learning (LMS), file sharingmanagement, document sharing management, user registry, user portal, websitehosting, etc., as well as comprehensive licenses. The system must be capable of providing not only university-wide education, but also information engineering education, administrative systems, and library service functions in a unified manner, and be operated as the university's information infrastructure.
B The server infrastructure must be capable of generally seamless operation and management of scale-out server functions on the university campus, in a datacenter leased by the university, and in a data center directly connected to SINET, as well as uninterrupted maintenance of equipment and firmware.
C The underlying services shall include at least DNS, NTP, Web server, Proxy, LDAP, RADIUS, Active Direcrory, Shibboleth, CAS, and OpenID, have high availability, and have APIs that enable control and operation management through open mechanisms. An API that enables control and operation management with an openmechanism must be provided. In addition to authentication using user names andpasswords, the authentication linked IdP shall have a two-factor authenticationfunction using digital certificates, magnetic cards, IC cards, etc. It is desirable that the function is based on standards such as FIDO U2F.
D In the services to be provided, data that is intended to be made public must becapable of stable provision using cloud services, etc., and must be controllable, auditable, and operationally manageable using published mechanisms.
E In the services to be provided, the data whose disclosure should be limited shouldbe configured as a service infrastructure that can be audited by security devices under the management of the University. This security function may be implemented by using the UTM device (Fortigate 1100E) already installed at the university.
F The e-mail service supports at least the WebMail, IMAP4, POP3, and SMTPprotocols, can accommodate all KIT subdomains, has transparent virus scanning and SPAM countermeasures, and is capable of handling e-mail exchanges involvinglarge files. It is also capable of sending, receiving, and storing e-mail that containsdigital signatures for the e-mail addresses of all members of the university, and managing the sending and forwarding of e-mail for all users who have been givenKIT personal IDs.
G There should be at least 200 or more common terminals for educational use, and the installation location should be easily changeable, and the usability should besuch that there is no difference even if the users bring their own devices (BYOD). However, regardless of whether the terminals are permanently installed or not, they should be equipped with a mechanism that enables timely updating of theOS and application environment, can be used as off-line terminals even in an offline environment, and the parts that users directly touch (keyboard, mouse, and outer edge of the monitor) should be made of materials that can be cleaned with alcohol-based sanitizers. In addition, it should be able to be used for speakingtests in the English training program of the university and for mathematical datascience education using Python.
H The educational training environment can be provided for both Windows10 andLinux, and includes at least Microsoft Office, anti-virus, Cisco Webex, software development environment (Eclipse, Visual Studio Code), Virtual Machine executionenvironment (Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware Academic Program, etc.), and alicense system that allows access not only from common educational terminals, but also from lecture rooms and home, and can support execution in a virtualized environment. It is also desirable to support Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, PTC Creo, and Mathematica.
I As an e-Learning infrastructure, Moodle LTS with the patches specified by the university should be able to run on the server infrastructure, withstand at least300 users taking quizzes simultaneously, and deliver online materials to 300 users simultaneously. (At least 50 requests per second). In addition, the system should be able to immediately reflect the pass/fail status of online tests set up for usertraining courses in the user sourcebook system as "service usage qualification information," and The system also has an online conference system function that can be used for synchronous online lectures for 100 people, and enables document sharing (PC screen, Web camera, PDF documents), chatting, and two-way video calls. Furthermore, the system should be equipped with a teaching material distribution system that takes copyright protection into consideration.
J As an electronic data repository infrastructure, it is equipped with a file sharingservice equivalent to Nextcloud and a document sharing service equivalent to Atlassian's Confluence, and has a secure and convenient file sharing service functionwith not only individual members' repositories but also users inside and outsidethe university, The system also has an authenticated content management/shared repository with flexible authorization functions, and can perform full-text search of stored data in Japanese and English, as well as filtering functions according tothe rating of the information.
K The system should have a user sourcebook system, a group sourcebook system, and a provisioning mechanism that can provide account information to multiple authentication systems based on the sourcebook information. In addition, the license system should take into account the accumulation of accounts such as KITpersonal IDs. In addition, the system should be capable of importing student information from the academic affairs system and faculty information from the humanresources system, and issuing and managing lifetime accounts that uniquely correspond to individuals and Center for
Information Science accounts (CIS accounts) that correspond to academic and professional records. The CIS account and thelifetime account are linked to each other by a personal ID (KIT Personal ID).
L As a user portal function, it should be able to provide information according to the user's attributes and have a function to specify the service to be used in conjunction with the service usage qualification information on the e-learning infrastructure. It is desirable to have a UI for smart phones.
M Comprehensive security countermeasure software that can be installed on the devices of the university members shall be provided.
N As the server management system infrastructure, the system shall be equipped with functions that allow operation management, including log analysis and configuration management, of devices within a specified range from multiple departments. The system should be configured in such a way that it can be used not only for the devices included in this procurement, but also for the devices existing in the university.
O As a terminal management system infrastructure, the system should be capable of performing unified security management and software asset management, including understanding the settings and OS/application status of all terminals included in the system, and be equipped with a function that allows simultaneous execution of updates. It is also desirable to be able to unify the management of terminalsprocured by the university and existing office terminals as described below.
P The system should be configured to allow centralized license management, including update management, for the licensed software included in this system. It is desirable that the configuration also takes into account the license management of the licensed software of the devices existing in the university, not only the devicesincluded in this procurement.
Q The printing equipment shall be a system that considers energy conservation, including running costs, including functions such as counting the number of copiesprinted by each user and limiting the total number of copies.
R As a basis for providing professional education in information engineering, A VDIenvironment that allows at least 70 terminals to be used at the same time, mainly for experiments and exercises (programming using development environments such as Eclipse, network programming experiments, use of office environments, learningactivities using web browsers, etc.), in order to enable students to take experiments and exercises smoothly in an online environment or using their own PCs. The VDI environment must be capable of supporting at least 70 terminals simultaneously. In addition, the system shall consist of about 85 terminals for exercise rooms that can use both Windows and Linux, about 90 portable terminals thatcan be managed by image distribution for experimental equipment control exercises, a LAN environment to connect them, and a group of original servers, etc., and shall have functions to support the development and operation of an original educational system. The system shall be equipped with functions to supnt and operation of the original educational system, and functions tooperate in cooperation with the server equipment of the system. It is desirable that the terminal equipment and printing equipment for the exercise rooms can be managed in the same way as those of the center system as much as possible. The portable terminal equipment should be equipped with functions that allow security updates, software installation, resetting of the user area, and execution of scripts all at the same time while connected to the network.
S As an office information system infrastructure, about 30 systems including existingAD servers, file servers, and Web-based services are to be migrated or newly constructed, and then operated in cooperation with the server devices of this system. In addition, the system shall be equipped with functions for centralized securitymanagement and software asset management of office terminals.
T As the library system infrastructure, the library operations such as book acceptance, journal acceptance, budget management, cataloging, browsing, reference, inter-user services, system management, statistical processing, etc., and the user online services such as OPAC, academic institution repository system, etc., should be provided with the functions to operate in cooperation with the server The system should be equipped with functions to operate the library services such as cataloging, browsing, reference, inter-user services, system administration, statistical processing, and so on, and user online services such as OPAC and academic repository system in cooperation with the server equipment of the system.
U As a website hosting service, you must be able to provide at least one highavailability Wordpress site for external use (annual uptime : 99.99%) and at least 50 virtual websites created with a combination of Apache, Perl, and PHP.
V This system is connected to the KITnet network as the upper network, and is accessible to the Internet through the KITnet network. The system shall be linked with the existing connection authentication and firewall devices, and shall be designed with sufficient security in mind.
W All equipment shall be designed to save space and energy. All equipment with inputdevices must be capable of being disinfected with alcohol to prevent infection.
⑸ Time limit for the submission of the requested material : 17 : 00 26 April, 2021
⑹ Contact point for the notice : Naoki Takesue, Section Chief, Accounting Division, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 1 Hashigami-cho Matsugasaki Sakyo-ku Kyoto-shi 606-8585 Japan, TEL 075-724-7075