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<h2>News Alert</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-04-10-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-04-10-en</a></p>
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">Request for Quotation | Equipment Refresh RFQ</h2>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">10 April 2015</p>
<p>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is seeking one or more providers to facilitate the sourcing and pre-configuration tasks for servers and network equipment for our global network infrastructure.</p>
<p>At appropriate intervals commensurate with the expected longevity of hardware the DNS Engineering Department of ICANN refreshes its infrastructure components to ensure that equipment is both current and supported for ICANN production services. The new servers
and network equipment is intended to replace or augment existing systems and services provided by the ICANN DNS Engineering Department.</p>
<p>For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please click
<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rfq-equipment-refresh-10apr15-en.zip">
here</a> [ZIP, 598 KB].</p>
<p>Proposals should be submitted to <a href="mailto:EquipmentRefresh-RFQ@icann.org">
EquipmentRefresh-RFQ@icann.org</a> by 23:59 UTC on 24 April 2015.</p>
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