PROJECT CONCEPT
The intent of this RFP is to select a single vendor to partner with the City of Colorado Springs to provide a turn-key solution to include entire project management, planning, design engineering, equipment, implementation, training and transition of operations for the following areas:
Replacement and redesign of Cisco Core Networking Infrastructure
Replacement of existing PBX to a new VoIP solution
Consolidation and transition of existing server platforms to VMWare virtual environment
Relocation of existing Server platforms that do not fit into the VMWare model
Implementation of new tiered SAN storage environment
Provide an enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) platform to accommodate new storage
and VM infrastructure
Enterprise information security solution to safeguard the Citys digital assets from Internet threats
and internal sources