Specifications include, but are not limited to: The current infrastructuresleasecontracts will expireon December 10, 2020. Offerors must submita bidthat minimizes disruption of operation.Theexisting AIX applications and Spectrum Protect Backup & Restore Systemshallrun on the new IBM Power Systems hardware. The State has already gone through a capacity planning exercise. There is no need for Offerors to do any capacity planning exercise. Offerors will price their bid based upon the Bill of Materials (BOM) located on IFB section 2.5. The services required willbe installation and migration services.Object Storage is a new technology that the Statewill be introducing into the infrastructure.For data repository services,the State will require Offerorsto provide a tape library at the production site.All proposed equipment must be NEW.