Specifications include, but are not limited to: Consulting Services Related to A Comparative Analysis of Costs of Providing Email and Virtualization Services to State Agencies. DIS is initiating this Request for Proposals (RFP) for consulting assistance to conduct a comparative analysis of the cost of providing email services to state agencies and summarize those findings in a report in response to an ISB Motion Regarding State Provisioning of Email Services. This report will also include an analysis of the cost of outsourced enterprise virtualization. The ISB has stated that a review of the current cost to provide email services for state agencies and an analysis of alternatives could serve to provide the ISB and Legislature with information regarding the cost and potential options relating to this specific and basic shared IT service. Moreover, such a review should serve the purpose of providing information on both email and virtualization that could be subsequently used in framing boarder IT discussions
