{"id":4437,"date":"2015-01-26T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:04:09","slug":"mahara-lms-rfp-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/mahara-lms-rfp-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahara LMS RFP Sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"__wp-temp-img-id\" style=\"margin: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"117\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center; margin: 2.15pt 134.65pt .0001pt 133.5pt;\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"letter-spacing: -.05pt;\">Higher<\/span>\u00a0xxxxxxxx<span lang=\"EN-US\"> Of Technology<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>P.O. Box: xxxxx<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>xxxxxx, xxxx<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">This proposal is prepared and reviewed by the Teaching &amp; Learning Department<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>1. INTRODUCTION<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (xxxxxxx) is a community of approximately 20,000 students and 2,000 staff based on 17 campuses throughout the xxxxxxxxxxxx (xxx). It is the largest higher education institution in the xxx.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is planning to use Mahara for a cohort of 200 teachers as a pilot project.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>2. REQUIREMENTS<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Please provide your proposal with the following details for a cloud-based hosted solution of Mahara. We expect to require about 100-200 users, with no more than 50 simultaneous users, maximum.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Overview of your services and solutions related to the latest version of Mahara<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Hosting infrastructure and servers (an overview)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">How service can be scaled up if required during the subscription year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Technical details including connectivity speed from the UAE \u2013 if known<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Backup procedures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Availability targets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Disaster Recovery details including Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Single Sign-On (SSO) with Blackboard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Active Directory Integration<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Details of the service:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">storage limits and server connectivity details<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Help desk hours and SLAs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Maintenance &amp; Quality Assurance services to the Mahara Project<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mahara Security<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Costing table that includes server specs, storage and connectivity details<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Clients in the UAE with contact details for reference \u2013 if any<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3. VALIDITY OF OFFER<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0Your quotation should be valid for a period of Ninety (90) days from the date of closing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>4. 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