Heartland Alliance LTD/GTE- Invitation To Tender For Consultancy For Quickbook Migration To A Cloud Server


Heartland Alliance LTD/GTE

Consultancy For Quickbook Migration To A Cloud Server (Haltd/Get/Kpcare2/Consultancy For Quickbook Migration/January 2024/028)

Sow: Quick Books Application Migration To A Cloud Server

1. Organization and project background Heartland Alliance Ltd-Gte is a service-based human rights organization with a global heritage that is established under the laws of Nigeria with a mission to engage as a lead and global player with a variety of stakeholders to create access to opportunities and resources for comprehensive healthcare and social and economic justice for all. Heartland Alliance International (HAI); the global arm of Heartland Alliance or Human Needs & Human Rights, a family of organizations that has been leading anti-poverty and social justice work in Chicago for more than 125 years to provide high quality and stigma-free services for all using a tailored human rights-based approach.

2. Background and purpose of the assignment The organization operates a QuickBooks application used for financial reporting in the organization, the current setup was configured to use a specialized VPN. Remote working becomes extremely difficult each time the VPN is unavailable. The purpose of this assignment is to engage a consultant who will be responsible for migrating the QuickBooks from the current setup to a cloud platform preferably Citrix web space.

Responsibilities

i. Migrate the QuickBooks to a cloud platform preferably Citrix webspace server.

ii. Configure the new setup in a secured manner that will not require the use of VPN to access the application.

iii. The new application should be deployed in a way that will allow users access the server by not going through VPN, the app should be accessed over the internet without using VPN.

iv. Daily incremental backup and weekly full backup. Backup should be configured to a third-party Cloud provider, like Azure.

v. Setup a disaster recovery policy on the cloud on the cloud platform.

3. Required qualifications

i. Should show strong understanding of the Citrx webspace, QuickBooks environments.

ii. Provide evidence of similar job in the past.

iii. Provide evidence of implementing Disaster recovery and backup configuration in the past.

iv. Provide detailed steps and explanation that will be adopted to achieve this activity.

Please include the following alongside your quotations during submission:

v. Company’s profile with verifiable address, telephone numbers, email addresses, and organization’s administrative structure where applicable (Not more than 5 pages).

vi. Evidence of Corporate Affairs Commission registration (CAC), i.e company certificate of incorporation including CAC form CO2 and CO7.

vii. Evidence of TIN, and photocopy of Tax Clearance Certificate.

4. Location : Remote & in-person

5. Other Useful Information

Server specification:

OS: Windows/Linux

RAM: 64GB

Storage: 200 GB, SSD

CPU: 8VCPs

Speed: 10Gibs

Users: 45 users

Send your enquiries to [email protected]

6. Method of response Interested firm or consultant should submit a proposal quoting: (HALTD/GTE/KPCARE1/QUICKBOOK MIGRATION/JANUARY/2024/028) to [email protected] not later than 2nd February, 2024.

Any proposal received after the stipulated time may not be accepted and shall be considered non-responsive.