EO-040319-1 - CLOUD MIGRATION IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGED OPERATIONAL SERVICES

Elections Ontario (or “EO”) is a non-partisan agency of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario working under the direction of the Chief Electoral Officer (“CEO”), an officer of the Legislative Assembly. EO is responsible for conducting general, by-elections and referenda in accordance with the provisions in the Elections Act and the administration of Election Finances Act.
The purpose of this RFP is to select a Proponent who can migrate all in scope EO IT systems to Azure cloud and provide ongoing support services.
 
The majority of EO systems are housed at the GDC with some systems deployed externally and integrated on cloud platforms. The Government of Ontario’s Infrastructure Technology Services (ITS) division supports the operation of all EO infrastructure at the GDC.  EO application sustain vendors are current EO vendors who, support all ongoing maintenance & operations of various EO applications.
There are approximately 131 production and non-production EO servers at the GDC. All servers are virtualized using VMware.
EO applications are primarily using Microsoft technology stack.
 
The duration of the contract to be entered into between the CEO and Successful Proponent(s) will be for a period of four (4) years, with an option in favour of EO to extend the Agreement on the same terms and conditions for up to two (2) additional terms of two (2) years each.
 
EO invites proposals in response to this RFP for an efficient, reliable and cost effective solution to meet the requirements described in the documents available from MERX.