Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Office of State Procurement (OSP) issues this Request for Proposal (RFP) on behalf of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) in conjunction with the Department of Information Systems (DIS) to obtain proposals and a contract for the Systems Integrator (SI) for Data Center Optimization (DCO). The scope of services for this RFP is restricted to the State Data Center located in the multi-agency complex (MAC), the State Data Center West (SDCW) and the new colocation data center. The Contractor shall be responsible for the following: A. Validation of the baseline information provided. B. Discovering and identifying information missing from the baseline information. C. Designing and building the target state (refer to Section 3.1) NOTE: The future state architecture developed by the Contractor shall not be proprietary such that colocation requirements of the architecture are specific to the services and technology capabilities, and offerings, of a single colocation vendor. D. Developing detailed migration plans. E. Migrating out of the MAC data center. F. Migrating a subset of State of Arkansas agencies’ systems (optional to the State).