Managed Backup and Recovery Software
Shared Services Canada · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Time Left to Bid
Closed
Basic information
- Reference number
- BPM025473/33143
- Issuing organization
- Shared Services Canada · Find award history →
- Government level
- Federal
- Solicitation type
- Information Technology
- Title
- Managed Backup and Recovery Software
- Source
- CanadaBuys
- Source ID
- BPM025473/33143
Details
- Location
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
Request for Information (RFI) to explore managed backup and recovery software solutions across on-premises, private, hybrid, and public cloud environments. Focus on scalable, secure, and flexible technologies with potential ransomware mitigation capabilities.
Description
The Government of Canada (GC) is seeking to modernize and optimize Managed Backup and Recovery Software across a range of environments, including on-premises data centres, private, hybrid and public cloud environments. This Request for Information (RFI) aims to gather comprehensive insight from industry on all viable approaches, services, backup and recovery models that support scalable, flexible, secure, and resilient backup and recovery of all GC information systems. The GC is seeking industry...
Dates
- Publication
- 2026/02/13 12:00:00 AM UTC
- Closing date
- 2026/03/16 02:00:00 PM UTC
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Executive summary
Shared Services Canada is conducting a Request for Information (RFI) to gather comprehensive industry feedback on backup and recovery software solutions for diverse environments including on-premises data centers and private, hybrid, and public cloud environments. This is the first step in a procurement process aimed at modernizing and optimizing the Government of Canada's backup and recovery software landscape. The GC seeks to reduce vendor dependency, increase flexibility, and ensure long-term protection of IT infrastructure and data by enabling departments to access multiple backup and recovery software solutions that suit their evolving business and technical needs. The initiative also considers ransomware mitigation as an integrated feature in backup and recovery software solutions.
Mandatory requirements
- 01Hardware-independent software using x86 hardware and commodity storage
- 02Support for granular file, database, and application recovery
- 03Complete infrastructure recovery capability for virtual and physical workloads
- 04Scalability across different data center sizes (enterprise to small remote offices)
- 05On-premises deployment capability
Suggested win themes
- —Multi-vendor strategy experience and interoperability capabilities
- —Scalable solutions from enterprise to edge/remote office environments
- —Hardware-independent, software-defined approach reducing vendor lock-in
- —Ransomware protection and cybersecurity integration
- —Canadian content and Indigenous partnership opportunities