Current engagement
Twelve years, without interruption.
DNET's longest continuously served client is an international philanthropic foundation with a country office in Abuja. The engagement began in 2014 under a formal services agreement and has run without a break since — the clearest evidence that this company is not describing past glories.
What we provide
- Dedicated internet access delivered over DNET's IP/MPLS network
- Last-mile by licensed microwave radio and fibre optic circuit
- Enterprise voice services, including E1/PRI with direct inward dialling
- Customer premises equipment configured, deployed and managed by DNET
- Carrier redundancy across two first-tier providers with automatic failover
- 24×7×365 monitoring and support under a service level agreement
Why the client is not named here
The services agreement restricts use of the organisation's name in promotional material. We honour that. Named references, together with the agreement itself, are provided directly to procuring entities on request and with the client's consent — which is, in any case, how a serious evaluator prefers to receive them.
What twelve years proves
- DNET still operates a live carrier-grade network, not a historic one
- Enterprise voice — E1/PRI, not a consumer service — is in current delivery
- Service levels have been met continuously, under review, for over a decade
- DNET contracts to international standards: confidentiality, intellectual property, anti-corruption, anti-bribery and terrorist-financing clauses
- The organisation has re-contracted rather than re-tendered elsewhere
Flagship engagement
World Health Organization, Nigeria.
WHO Nigeria became DNET's first major institutional client in 1999, and over the following fifteen years the work grew to span equipment supply, national connectivity and a scheduled maintenance programme across thirty-eight locations. It remains the fullest demonstration of what this company is built to do.
Connectivity
DNET was awarded the provision of 6 Mbps symmetric internet access via fibre optic cable to the WHO country office in Abuja, under an award letter signed by the WHO Representative in Nigeria following a formal quotation process. Earlier in the relationship DNET delivered C-band and Ku-band VSAT internet access to WHO field locations — the technology that made connectivity possible where terrestrial infrastructure had not reached.
Equipment supply
Sustained supply against competitive requests for quotation: notebook and desktop computers, servers, uninterruptible power supplies and batteries, projectors, telecom racks, wireless access points, storage, digital senders and consumables — quoted to WHO specification and delivered against purchase orders.
Nationwide maintenance programme
A routine maintenance agreement for scheduled maintenance across thirty-eight WHO offices in Nigeria, structured as a defined number of engineer visits per month per state — from Abia and Adamawa through to the northern and south-south states — under a formal agreement with service charges, notice provisions, termination terms and an annexed schedule of locations and visit frequencies.
A separate WHO award letter covers the maintenance of VSAT and general office equipment across 36 states and two polio laboratories — 38 locations in total, confirming the same national footprint under a second, independent instrument.
We pass institutional procurement
Competitive RFQ, formal award, contracted service terms and periodic review — the same process federal tendering runs on.
We hold multi-site contracts
Thirty-eight locations on a monthly cycle is a logistics and staffing commitment, not a promise made at bid stage.
We supply, connect and maintain
One client, all three service lines, across fifteen years — the whole argument of this company inside a single relationship.
Selected engagements
Other work worth describing.
| Client | Engagement |
|---|---|
| FHI 360 / Family Health International | Dedicated internet connectivity as an institutional client of DNET's network, by fibre and by microwave radio across multiple offices; WAN deployment; video conferencing; solar-powered desktop computing proposals; and competitive supply of IT equipment through formal invitation-to-bid processes. |
| John Snow, Incorporated | Master Services Agreements for the provision of internet services in Abuja and Calabar, delivered by fibre optic circuit with microwave radio and VSAT backup; video conferencing and VoIP deployment; local area network installation at Oshodi; and IT equipment supply under competitive RFQ. Certificates of completion issued. |
| ECOWAS | Supply and delivery of 200 kVA dry-cell battery systems for institutional power backup, with delivery documentation and formal receipting. |
| Gas Aggregation Company of Nigeria | Corporate web design and hosting; domain registration, corporate email portal deployment and administration handover. |
| Federal Ministry of Interior, Abuja | Competitive supply of computing equipment to the Ministerial Tender Board. |
| Guardian Newspapers Limited | Design, development and hosting of the national newspaper's web platform on an automated publishing system with subscription payment, secure transactions, archive access, membership, breaking-news distribution and editorial tooling. Rated Nigeria's best media newspaper website for customer experience by Phillips Consulting. |
| Independent Newspapers Limited | Automated newspaper publishing platform, design and managed hosting. |
| Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board | Web platform design and development for the national examinations body. |
| Federal Medical institutions | Local area network and corporate email deployment; Ku-band satellite internet access for facilities outside terrestrial coverage. |
| Nigerian Economic Society | Web platform for the national professional economics body. |
Engagements above span 1999 onward. DNET holds signed award letters, master services agreements, client-issued certificates of completion, purchase orders, delivery notes and receipts for this work, and provides them to procuring entities on request.
Selected clients
Organisations that have trusted us with the work.
Engagements span 1999 onward, alongside a connectivity and voice contract running continuously since 2014. Award letters, agreements and certificates of completion are available to procuring entities on request.
Credentials
Where the equipment and the capacity come from.
A supplier is only as credible as the channel behind it. DNET buys through authorised distribution so clients receive manufacturer warranty and support, and has contracted directly with carrier-grade infrastructure providers for the connectivity it resells.
Technology & equipment
DNET has supplied institutional clients with equipment from the major global manufacturers across computing, printing, power and networking — including Dell, HP, Cisco, APC and Panasonic — sourced through authorised distribution with warranty intact. Where a tender specifies a named manufacturer, we pursue formal manufacturer authorisation through that brand's channel as part of the bid.
Carrier partnerships
DNET's network is carried by two first-tier providers, Globacom and Main One — a Master Service Agreement with Main One Cable Company for submarine cable capacity, and dedicated terrestrial fibre from Globacom on a multi-year term with BGP peering. Running both is deliberate: if one carrier fails, the other takes the traffic and the client stays online. For satellite coverage we deploy on Intelsat capacity using iDirect platforms in C-band and Ku-band.
Network credentials
- Internet service provider licence, Nigerian Communications Commission — INT/012/03 (historic)
- AfriNIC membership with DNET's own IPv4 address allocation
- Autonomous system number and BGP peering capability
- Registered route objects in the RIPE database
- Direct submarine cable and terrestrial fibre capacity agreements
Owning address space and an autonomous system number is not a marketing claim — it is a registry record. It means DNET can route independently, peer directly and take technical responsibility for a client's connectivity rather than passing a fault to somebody else's helpdesk.
Ask us for references.
Award letters, service agreements, delivery documentation and client references are available to procuring entities on request.