RFP 2013-106 - Consulting Services - High Availability Project

Summary of Specifications:
The Genesee County Purchasing Director is requesting proposals to provide Consulting Services for the Information Technology Department to complete the design and implementation for an application High Availability project. The intent of this project is to utilize existing IBM Nseries hardware installed at three locations, install VMware Storage Recovery Manager and configure critical financial and public safety applications in a High Availability architecture. Additional deliverables include upgrading the three IBM Nseries controllers to the latest software / firmware levels, reconfiguring the current SNAP architecture from a best-practices viewpoint that optimizes disk space and ensures application recovery and install and configure one 2863-004 expansion cabinet at Site-1 (Primary Data Center). 



Knowledge transfer to Genesee County I.T. staff is expected to ensure in-house resources are capable of maintaining the configuration going forward. 

This is not a fixed priced contract. The proposal must include a ‘not-to-exceed’ number of hours at an hourly rate. Genesee County will be billed only for the hours used. 

This is not a sales opportunity for additional storage or software. The consultants are expected to be experts working with the IBM Nseries hardware and VMware software and not recommend alternative solutions that would replace this infrastructure.