Backup System and Disaster Recovery Solution

The Vendor is required to provide a modernized backup and disaster recovery solution that will work seamlessly together and can operate cohesively to ensure continuity and resilience. 
- The County’s current Backup (BU) system and Disaster Recovery (DR) environment have reached the end of their lifecycle and Service Support contract end.
- Server BU System
•    On Premise Appliance
•    Hosted Appliance at Proponents Data Centre (Canada)
•    Integration with VMware, HyperV, Bare Metal Servers
•    Integration with Dell PowerStore SAN
•    Multiple Policies with multiple Retention times
•    SSO with MFA
•    Anomaly and Malware Detection
•    Integration with Enterprise Applications (SQL, PostGRES, etc.…)
•    Alert integration with Email, SMS, Calls, etc.…
•    Running Transparent backup
- Server DR Solution
•    Hosted environment – Virtual in nature
•    Ability to host 50% of current production environment
•    Integration with major BU Systems
•    RTO varied from <12 hours to <72 hours
•    Regular testing of DR environment
- System Include:
•    Solution must provide immutable backups;
•    Solution must be able to backup and restore a virtualized VMWare environment;
•    Solution must be able to backup and restore a virtualized HyperV environment;
•    Solution must be able to backup and restore physical / bare metal servers running various OS;
•    Ability to integrate with Entra ID (or Local Domain) for SSO (single sign-on); and
•    County must retain ownership of all County-owned data during and post-contract periods.
•    Solution(s) shall fully integrate with one another to provide a modernized, end-to-end Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution that functions cohesively and without interruption.
- The DR Solution will also include end-to-end encryption, role base access control and multi-factor authentication.
- The data will be encrypted, compressed and securely transferred to the backup storage solution.
- On-site support shall be next business day when support calls are placed prior to 3:00pm EST.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 23, 2026