Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA)

are: identifying legislation that needs to be in place and working with various State and 

Federal funding and budget sources. 

4.1.7  Option 2   Infrastructure Alternative 

A prospective contractor is encouraged to consider hosting the Portal infrastructure 

within an existing State of Colorado datacenter.  Specifically, the State of Colorado's 

Department of Personnel and Administration has a data center located at 690 Kipling 

Avenue, Lakewood, Colorado.  One possible infrastructure solution would involve 

utilizing the available resources of this facility.  The description is provided in Appendix 

C. 

The hosting solution proposed must be supported via a business case analysis, clearly 

addressing end of contract business continuity. 

4.1.8 Commercial, Financial, and Contract Proposal 

The prospective contractor's proposal must contain three (3) sections: (1) Titled the 

Commercial Section consisting of the costing elements; (2) Titled the Financial Section 

consisting of the financing side of the prospective contractor's proposal; and (3) Titled 

the Contract Section of the prospective contractor's response to Appendix B. 

Evaluation and selection of the successful prospective contractor is at the sole discretion 

of the Evaluation Committee and decisions of SIPA are final. 

All proposals shall be considered valid offers for 120 days from the date of proposal 

receipt by SIPA 

Commercial Section (Costing) 

The Commercial Section must include a comprehensive list of all costs for services, 

hardware, software, applications, and implementation of the systems to achieve SIPA's 

objectives (Sections 7.0 and 8.0) and include the following: 

   All equipment to be used on the project, with specific descriptions of this 

equipment; 

   All proposed firms and individuals who are to be used as subcontractors on the 

project; 

   All personnel and level of effort of the prospective contractor, partners, and sub 

contractor staff; 

   An assessment of networking capabilities; 

   A corporate background, references, statement of financial solvency, and 

management team biographies; and 

   Sources of products and labor included in your proposal. 

Request for Proposal 10/29/2004 

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