RFP: Cloud server service for hosting the Breeding Management System (BMS) Development – IBP/ABEE Project

RFP: Cloud server service for hosting the Breeding Management System (BMS) Development – IBP/ABEE Project

Purpose of RFP

• The Breeding Management System (BMS) (https://bmspro.io/) is a comprehensive suite of software tools for crop breeding. It is designed to help breeders manage their breeding programmes more efficiently so that they may develop improved cultivars faster and at lower cost. The BMS is a web-based product that is delivered to our customers as SaaS (Software as a Service) or directly on the client premises.

• BMS Pro allows for a productive and extensive data exchange among breeders that are consequential in the development of superior crop varieties. It utilizes cutting edge technologies such as servers in the cloud to resolving connectivity and data exchange amongst programs with a given institutions and/or across institutions. The rental of server space in the cloud is therefore a must have to run and maintain effectively the 5 BMS instances of the ABEE project (one instance for each of the four national programs and one regional instance). This service will provide access to cloud space to host 5 BMS instances for 5 years

More Information (Document and Links) 

For more information go to:  http://www.africarice.org/

You can also obtain information by clicking on document below:

RFP cloud server service for hosting the BMS.pdf

Bid Invitation Letter Cloud server service for hosting the Breeding Management System(BMS).pdf

Deadline for submitting bids: 06 December 2020 at 4:00 Abidjan Local Time