REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)
Supply, Installation, Testing and Commissioning (SITC) of GPU Infrastructure for AI Workloads
Opening date of RFP: 31/07/2026
Closing Date of RFP: 28/08/2026 – 23:59 hours
LEHS is a charitable organization in India with the objective of advancing inclusive development across healthcare, education, agriculture, and governance. Through its flagship program Wadhwani AI, LEHS designs, builds, and deploys artificial intelligence solutions for large-scale social impact in partnership with State and National Governments and ecosystem stakeholders.
To support its growing AI research, training, and deployment requirements, Wadhwani AI intends to establish a high-performance on-premise GPU computing infrastructure, hosted in a co-location data center. This infrastructure will support large-scale AI model training, inference, experimentation, and applied research workloads.
LEHS hereby invites proposals from eligible and experienced vendors for the end-to-end SITC of GPU infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, firewall, and integration services.
Wadhwani AI is scaling its AI capabilities across multiple domains, requiring:
- High-density GPU compute for deep learning workloads
- High-performance NFS storage
- Low-latency, high-throughput networking
- Secure, scalable, and reliable on-premise infrastructure
The objective of this RFP is to:
- Procure a single, consolidated solution for GPU infrastructure
- Ensure clear ownership and accountability with one vendor
- Enable scalable, secure, and production-grade AI workloads
- Achieve a fully commissioned and operational system
The selected bidder shall be responsible for end-to-end delivery of the solution, including but not limited to:
a. Overall Scope
- Supply of all hardware and software components
- Installation, integration, testing, and commissioning (SITC)
- Coordination with the selected co-location data center
- Performance validation and handover
- Documentation and knowledge transfer
b. Single-Point Responsibility - The bidder must submit a single consolidated proposal and shall act as the single point of accountability for:
- GPU compute infrastructure
- Management, login, and master nodes
- Storage (Parallel File System)
- Networking (data and management)
- Firewall
- SITC activities
Consortium or fragmented responsibility bids are not permitted.
- Submission Email: rfp.lehs@wadhwaniai.org
- All documents should be in PDF format.
- Subject line of the email: “Proposal for GPU Infrastructure SITC – [Bidder Name]”
- Submission Deadline: [28/08/2026 & 23:59 Hours]
Bidders who submit complete technical with password protected financial proposals and all mandatory enclosures will be considered only.
Any proposals received by LEHS after the deadline for submission of proposals prescribed in the RFP are liable to be rejected.
For detailed information, please check the complete version of the RFP attached below.