- Reference number
- BID – 2648S
- Issuing entity
- City Power – Johannesburg
- Closing date
- 2026-11-30 11:00 SAST
BID – 2648S – VMWARE SOFTWARE LICENCING AND SUPPORT RENEWAL
1. INTRODUCTION City Power operates a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) virtualised infrastructure environment across two data centre sites, providing hosting for production and disaster recovery (DR) workloads. This environment is built on Dell VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances and is licensed under the VMware by Broadcom VCF licensing model. The current VMware licensing and associated Software and Support (SnS) subscriptions are due for renewal. City Power therefore require services from suitably qualified, accredited and authorised Service Providers for the supply of VMware Cloud Foundation licensing and support in line with the technical requirements set out in this document. 2. SCOPE OF WORK The scope covers the supply, licensing and support of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software including the following: 2.1 VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) per-core software licenses sufficient to cover all physical CPU cores presently in production and disaster recovery use, as detailed in Section 6; 2.2 VMware vSAN Add-On licenses for the clusters identified as requiring such licensing in Section 6; 2.3 Production-level Software and Support (SnS) / Broadcom Enterprise Support (or equivalent) for the full duration of the license term specified in this document; 2.4 A license true-up and management proposal to accommodate reasonable core-count growth over the contract term, where applicable. The scope excludes the supply of any physical hardware (VxRail appliances, servers, storage, or networking), which has already been procured and is in production. Service Providers must, however, take note of the hardware configuration set out below, as this determines the licensing quantities required.