Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Carson (“City”) Information Technology and Security (“IT”) Department is inviting written responses to this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) from qualified vendors providing Tier III carrier neutral Colocation Data Center facilities located in downtown Los Angeles, California, providing space, power, cooling, physical security and related managed services for the City’s servers, storage, and networking equipment. The Colocation facility will serve as one of the City’s primary data centers, providing data and internet connectivity at a competitive rate to the City’s equipment onsite and any other data centers in downtown Los Angeles. The colocation data center shall have redundancies in cooling, power, and communication infrastructure and systems, 24x7x365 monitoring and remote hands technicians available for scheduled and unscheduled managed services requests.