Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Server inventory consists of products currently from one primary OEM due to standardization initiatives of hardware platforms and software to ensure a more efficient, low cost Server user environment. We expect through this RFP effort to continue similar efforts and maintain a single branded Server environment, purchased through an OEM or Reseller. This RFP includes information regarding Server purchases made by the State Agencies primarily through the IOT. The IOT’s goal is to continue standardization in the equipment purchased and to channel most purchases to the vendor/equipment configurations that meet enterprise requirements at the lowest price point, without sacrificing quality. As such, we have created standard configurations that Respondents are required to price out to maximize internal goals of limiting most purchases to these standard configurations. The objective also remains to maintain a single vendor base to realize purchase volume efficiencies and to manage the oversight of this contract in a centralized fashion to ensure that agencies make use of the resultant contract(s) for the purchase of Servers and Storage. A server is a physical computer dedicated to run one or more services or applications (as a host) to serve the needs of the users of other computers on a network. This also includes server appliances. Server appliances have their hardware and software preconfigured by the manufacturer. It also includes embedded networking components such as those found in blade chassis systems.