Data Center Co Location Services

The Vendor is required to provide two data center locations that serve all the data and applications utilized by the Authority that are hosted “in-house”. 
- Historically, due to speed limitations between facilities, each data center housed portions of the servers most utilized by each location.
- Space - Enough room for needed racks, airflow, and proper cable management to avoid accidents (pull one cable, affects another)
- Co-Location: When engaging a 3rd party data center, you can either rent services (virtual machines, licensing, storage, and other resources) or floor space to put your own equipment in. For long-term (permanent residency) rental services may be a more cost-effective solution, but for a near-term (3 year) contract, using your own equipment makes it more portable to bring back in-house when ready.
- Required Services
•    Storage
o    Cloud Object Storage – to be utilized as a backup target
•    Connectivity
o    10 GBPS dedicated connection for P2P to WSP
o    10 GBPS dedicated connection for P2P to 600
o    10 GBPS Switch port (x2)
o    100 Mbps (burstable to 1 GBPS) for external management access to hosted environment
o    Fiber cross connects between racks and co-lo equipment (x2)
- Facility
•    Full power redundancy w/ multiple power sources into the facility, dual UPS feeds to each floor space
•    Multiple Internet carriers in building for service capacity and failover needs
•    Raised floor space for equipment locations.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 6, 2025