Renovation of a data center facility in Herkimer, New York. Completed plans call for the renovation of a data center facility.

The County of Herkimer is seeking proposals for an upgrade to the County data center. Proposal documents will be available at the Office of the Herkimer County Purchasing Agent, Monday through Friday from 8am to 4pm, or may be downloaded from the County website.Minority and Women Owned Businesses are encouraged to apply. The County reserves the right to refuse to issue documents or accept packets from contractors who have previously failed to complete contracts within the time frame required, or have previously performed similar work in an unsatisfactory manner. A proposal may be rejected if the contractor cannot show that it has the necessary ability, plant and equipment to commence the work at the time prescribed and thereafter to perform and complete the work at the rate or within the time specified. A proposal may be rejected if the contractor is already obligated for the performance of other work which would delay the commencement, performance or completion of the work. Herkimer County reserves the right to reject any bid if the information submitted by, or investigation of, such contractor fails to satisfy the County that such contractor is properly qualified to carry out the obligations of the contract and to complete the work contemplated therein. Proposals may be considered irregular and may be subject to rejection if there are unauthorized additions, conditional or alternate pay items, or irregularities of any kind which make the proposal incomplete, indefinite or otherwise ambiguous. All offers received shall be net cost to the County of Herkimer. The County shall not be responsible for any additional cost; including, but not limited to, overtime required by the vendor to meet the appropriate deadlines. The County of Herkimer, New York is seeking proposals for a refresh of our Virtual Machine environment which includes 3 hosts, server hardware, software and networking. The new system shall include the latest version of Microsoft Windows Server software Data Center edition along with enough horse power to accommodate 30 to 40 VMs. We are looking to have two (2) 48 port top of rack switches doing 40 gig and two (2) 48 port core switches connecting at 100 gig. We have OM3 fiber from the cores to the datacenter and would require replacement of all switches to be Cisco or equivalent. All SFP transceivers and Networking cables must be included, Smartnet services must have a 3 year contract and have 8 X 5 NBD except for the core switches, they have to be 24 x 7. Professional Services must include but are not limited to: o Verify backups configured and successful o Rack and cable hardware o Install ESX 7.0 o Configure networking o Provision data stores o Migrate Hosts from 6.5 to 7.0