The following is an old post of mine and deals with another datacenter. Today I saw a saw a tender notice by the Kerala State IT Mission for setting up a state data center for the government of Kerala. The notice reads
*Inviting competitive bids from qualified bidders against revised request for proposal (RFP) for appointment of an agency for Design, Site Preparation, Supply, Installation, Maintenance and Operations of Physical and IT Infrastructure of a State Data Centre in Kerala, Thiruvananathapuram, for the Government of Kerala.* *Tender Fee : Rs 5000/-* *Earnest Money Deposit : Rs 5,000,000 (50 Lakhs)* The detailed tender notice also asks for 3 years experience in managing a 2500Sqft datacenter. I am not a Data Center expert, but I did some research about the nuances of setting up a Datacenter, called up a few friend who are working in data centers and who has experience in setting up these. My findings follows. Setting up a a datacenter involves *purchase of high value equipments. * Majority of the “non technology” work is about setting up *power delivery systems, Air conditioning, fire safety and access control* devices. Once you have all these, then you need skilled manpower to manage the rest, and that’s something you have plenty in Kerala. Most of the datacenters around the world are supported from Kerala. Now the question is, why the deposit money of 50 Lakhs. *Is it to ward off smaller companies in Kerala* who might have the know how to do it. Could we have *split the tender into different tenders*, for equipment purchase, setting up physical space, providing operations support etc ? Why is it that companies with *more turnover gets more points* in the tender evaluation process ? Are we *overlooking the security aspects* of a datacenter that might hold sensitive government data I am pretty sure only Reliance, Tata and Bharati will be bidding for this. And why do these folks always write a stupid clause in every tender ? “Kerala State IT Mission reserves the right to reject any or all the bids in whole or in part at any time without mentioning any reason thereof” Can a government body openly say that we are not accountable for our actions ? Kenney On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 10:35 +0530, Ashik S wrote: > > > All , right now what we can do is go through the document, form an > opinion and post it on the "write comments" section of > > > http://www.itmission.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=361:request-for-proposals-rfp-for-selection-of-tsp-for-setting-up-of-a-geoportal-and-clearinghouse-for-the-kerala- > > state-spatial-data-infrastructure-ksdi&catid=49:tender-notices&Itemid=44 > > -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
