Data Center Colocation Services

The Vendor is required to provide data center services to the board.
- The ideal colocation facility will provide a dedicated secure cage in both production and DR locations that is approximately 1,100 square feet in each location.
- This cage must be secured by a key card system (backed up with a physical key) that also secures access to the general colocation facility.
- The location should have a MegaPort service of at least 10 GB to connect to various public cloud services including Azure, Oracle, AWS, and Google.
- Must supply a minimum of 24-inch raised floor with a cable tray system or specify detailed overhead wire racking. Either raised flooring with a cable tray system and/or overhead cabling and power systems must have sufficient space for proper airflow after equipment and wiring are installed.
- Must meet the following temperature and humidity requirements (measured at 48 inches above the raised floor): maintain a temperature of 70 degrees (plus or minus five degrees) and relative humidity of 50% (plus or minus 10%).
- Must maintain a management information system used for monitoring the environmental systems — power, air-conditioning, humidity controls — of the building.
- Must have a zone-based fire detection system within the data center facilities to monitor and continuously sample the air for any indication of fire and warn on-site staff of potential fire hazards, initiating extensive and localized emergency procedures to extinguish any fire at the source.
- The emergency procedures must include proper notification to the local fire department.
- Take the proper precautions and implement the proper industry standard safeguards to ensure unnecessary activation of fire-suppression equipment.
- Must inform the Board of any facility or procedural changes five days or more before such changes take effect.
- The computer room floor should be able to support between 2,500 and 3,000 lbs. per rack.
- There must be an on-site generator, able to handle the load for at least 24 hours at full load, plus fuel contracts with multiple redundant providers with service level expectations or guarantees.