Specifications include, but are not limited to: Independent assessment completed in 2010 by the TPI group outlined several areas where data centerrisks and overhead costs are not appropriate; Recommendations from that report are at Appendix A.Accordingly, the State of Vermont is initiating several projects to reduce cost, reduce risk, and provide betterutilization of new and existing information technology resources. The primary areas of this multi-yearproject consist of data center consolidation, application consolidation, and virtualization implementationinitiatives. Our intent is to have a vendor assess our physical and operational requirements and provide adata center roadmap that would allow us to achieve our goals. The roadmap should clearly identity tieringand maturity models following industry standards, and operational Service Level Agreements (SLAs)required to co-locate and/or host equipment from numerous State Agencies. Finally, identify potentiallocation(s) and perform assessment(s) for a Secondary Data Center site using a host model/co-locationapproach
