INVITATION TO BID

The Florida State University Facilities Purchasing will receive sealed bids until the dates and times shown for the following projects. Bids may be brought to the bid opening or sent to:

Florida State University

Facilities

114F Mendenhall Building A

Tallahassee, Florida 32306

prior to bid opening. Bidder must reference bid number, opening date and time on outside of bid package to insure proper acceptance. Bids submitted by facsimile are not acceptable. For information relating to the Invitation(s) to Bid, contact the:

Bid Number FAC62113-08

Purchasing Agent: B. J. Lewis, Facilities

Public Bid Opening: December 22, 2008, 9:30 a.m.

Location: FSU-Facilities Purchasing

114 Mendenhall Hall, Building A

Tallahassee. Florida 32306-4150

Bid Documents: We are in the market for an IT solution to consolidate 8-10 production servers. This solution will be in addition to several stand alone servers, EMC SAN/NAS, Sun Oracle services, and tape libraries. This solution will include licensing to maximize the utilization of the hardware (legacy, existing, new, and future) through VMW are enterprise. The solution must include all power, KVM, networking equipment and cables/adaptors needed to fully utilize the blade chassis. Individual blade systems must include dual Intel CPU, on board hard drive, and minimum 16GB RAM. Please include knowledge transfer, setup, training, and troubleshooting over and above the base level hardware support from the manufacturer. Please detail both individual system and possible overall solution configurations.

Contact Person: B. J. Lewis, Purchasing Agent

FSU, Facilities

(P) (850)644-7639; (F) (850)644-5071

blewis@admin.fsu.edu