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Current Requests
Request for Proposals – RF Data Center Colocation Services
WHEDA is seeking assistance from a qualified Data Center to provide services to house the technology footprint for WHEDA’s Disaster recovery site. Currently, WHEDA houses its offsite storage, networking, server hardware and firewalls in our Milwaukee Office data center. With the move to mobile computing and a possible relocation on the Milwaukee facility, WHEDA is looking to disassociate its technical infrastructure away from the location that will house staff. Converting the new Milwaukee office to a more café style workspace.
The colocation data center facility will provide external internet egress and house several VMWare host servers, palo Alto firewalls, Commvault offsite server, tape library, and SAN equipment for live daily replication.
WHEDA IT Staff estimates the footprint for the new Colocation setup to occupy 2 standard Server racks.
This will include:
5 - 1U Network Switches
5 - 2U Proliant DL380 Servers
1 - 4 U Tape Library
1 – 1U KVM
1 – 1U Environment Monitor
2 – 4U Dell Unity SAN Shelves
2 – 1U Palo Alto Firewalls
RFQ Questions are due: May 15, 2025, by 2:00 p.m. C.T.
RFQ DUE on or before: May 29, 2025, by 2:00 p.m. C.T.
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WHEDA will not discriminate against any vendor or supplier, or discourage any submission of a proposal or bid or delay any decision for any proposal or bid on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual preference, marital status, familial status, physical condition, developmental disability, age (provided the applicant has the capacity to contract) or any other prohibited basis.