EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR UPGRADING THE EXISTING HOSTING PLATFORM AT NISM CAMPUS, PATALGANGA

National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) is a public trust, an educational initiative of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) with the objective of enhancing the quality of securities market in the country through knowledge-based interventions. The institute therefore conducts a number of educational and certification programs for Securities Market professionals and also various financial literacy initiatives for investors from all walks of life. National Institute of Securities Markets has a campus on 70 Acres of land at Patalganga, a location around 40 kilometers away from Vashi on Mumbai-Pune highway.

Currently, NISM has deployed three physical servers and two SAN storage devices. In these three servers two servers are used as VMWare ESXI host server and one server is used as backup storage. The VMWare ESXI host servers are connected with SAN storage through Fiber Channel. These servers and SAN storage are installed in NISM Data Center at Patalganga. NISM intends to upgrade the said hardware.

This document is inviting the expression of interest (EOI) to shortlist the companies for Upgrading the existing Hosting Platform (Server & SAN) at the Data Center, NISM Campus, Patalganga. NISM intends to increase the size of Core CPU, RAM, VMWare Licenses and Storage in the above mentioned hosting platform.

Issue Date of EOI: 28^th May 2021

Closure Date of RFP: 14^th June 2021 by 16:30 Hrs