Datacenter Tier Assessment Services

Open Date: March 3rd, 2026 12:00 PM

Pre-Proposal Conference Date: March 12th, 2026

Question Due Date: March 17th, 2026

Proposal Due Date: April 2nd, 2026 12:00 PM

Week 1: Kick-off meeting, document review, and data collection.

Weeks 2-4: On-site facility inspection, interviews with key personnel, and data validation.

Weeks 5-10: Data analysis, draft report generation, and internal quality review.

Weeks 10-11: Presentation of draft reports and review with WMATA stakeholders.

Week 12: Finalization of reports and delivery of all deliverables.

A government authority in Washington, DC seeks a vendor to provide comprehensive datacenter tier assessment services. The selected company will conduct a detailed classification assessment of the data center, evaluating its capacity to meet federal mandates such as backup power, failover, and recovery requirements. The assessment must include thorough documentation presenting findings, assigned tier levels with justifications, and individual component assessment tests with descriptions and rankings.

Key datacenter components to be included are management and operations, network infrastructure, data center security, disaster recovery, risk and vulnerabilities, and computational fluid dynamics analysis. The purpose of these assessments is to determine operational sustainability, highlight potential improvements, and evaluate readiness to support commercial hosting, interagency colocation, multi-tenant compliance, and cloud services requiring authorization.

Vendors are required to submit questions by March 17, 2026, and a pre-bid meeting will take place on March 12, 2026.