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This Solicitation opportunity from Arizona was posted on February 6, 2025. The submission period has ended. Browse the details below for market research, or find similar active opportunities.

Tucson Data Center Services Sole Source Request

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BPM006788State & Local

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The State of Arizona requires a reliable disaster recovery site to ensure business continuity for its critical servers and data. To achieve this, the State emphasizes the importance of geographically diverse data centers, with a minimum separation of 25 miles to mitigate risks from natural disasters affecting power and infrastructure. In 2020, the State extended a five-year agreement with Involta, now known as Ark Data Centers, relocating its Tucson Data Center from an outdated facility to a more suitable location. However, assessments of potential Tucson sites revealed that only one meets the stringent survivability standards necessary for disaster recovery, which include specific infrastructure requirements such as a minimum of 66 feet separation for power and carrier connections, diverse paths for carrier equipment, low flood and business risk, and carrier representation aligning with the State’s contracted providers in Phoenix. Given these critical standards and the lack of viable alternatives, the State has determined that extending its existing contract with Ark Data Centers for an additional five years is the most feasible solution to ensure a resilient disaster recovery capability. The contract, valued between five and fifteen million dollars, is managed by the Arizona Department of Administration and emphasizes the importance of specialized data center design and implementation practices. The procurement process, identified as a sole source due to the unique requirements and assessments, underscores the necessity of maintaining a secure, geographically appropriate, and compliant disaster recovery infrastructure to safeguard the State’s operational continuity.

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AgencyArizona Department of Administration
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The State of Arizona needs to have a full disaster recovery site for any hard metal servers that are needed to support business continuity.  To have diverse data centers requires data centers to be located with a geographical separation with a minimum of a 25 mile separation.  Even though data centers in Phoenix Metropolitan area could meet the 25 mile separation, a natural disaster could impact the power grid in this area.  In 2020, the State signed a 5-year Agreement with Involta and moved their Tucson Data Center from the aging and inadequate location at the 400 Congress building, to the current location. There are two known potential data center sites in Tucson but one does not meet the critical standards for the State of Arizona for survivability per Data Center assessments conducted by the State,  These assessments identified critical requirements that are not available in the other data center.  Taking this risk could jeopardize the State of Arizona being survivable during times when the disaster recovery site needs to provide full connectivity to the State of Arizona agencies.  Some of the critical requirements are:  -          66’ minimum separation for power coming into building (Diverse paths) -          66’ minimum separation for carrier connections coming in to building (Diverse paths) -          Two MMRs that carriers can install diverse paths and equipment for diverse paths out to floor space -          Low flood risk -          Low nearby business risk -          Must have good representation of Carriers that closely mirrors the State’s contracted Carriers in its Phoenix Data Center   The Data Center assessments were performed per ANSI/BICSI 002-2014 Data Center Design and Implementation Best Practices. Because of the stated reasons, the State determines that no reasonable alternative sources exist for a disaster recovery site for agencies’ servers and equipment and the State intends on extending its Contract with Involta, now rebranded as Ark Data Centers, for an additional five (5) years.

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