Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA)

RFP Section 4.0 above and in the Statement of Work Section 8.0 below.  As noted in the 

Statement of Work Section 8.0, the successful prospective contractor will work within the 

process outlined by SIPA to respond to individual the Statement of Work requirements.  

At contract award, mutually recognized requirements will be incorporated into the 

resulting contract. 

7.1 Open 

Architecture and State Standards 

The contractor shall provide SIPA with an open architecture solution as stated in the 

prospective contractor's proposal.  The open architecture solution shall provide system(s) 

scalability, portability, reliability, and usability sufficient to meet the business needs of 

SIPA and its customers. 

In providing its open architecture solution, the contractor shall utilize the State of 

Colorado's Information Technology Standards, Version 1.3, July 16, 2004 provided as 

Appendix A to this RFP. 

7.2 Portal 

Infrastructure 

  Hardware, Software, and 

Systems 

The contractor shall provide a Portal Infrastructure solution that meets the following 

minimum infrastructure requirements and components: 

a) Provide an Enterprise Directory implementation plan providing Identity 

Management, Email, and Provisioning to support 20,000 users initially, 

migrating to one million (1,000,000) users by month 12 and four million 

(4,000,000) users by month 36; 

b) Webserver/AppServer Infrastructure to support Microsoft .NET, IIS, SQL 

Server Applications;  

c) Webserver/AppServer Infrastructure to support UNIX n tier applications; 

d) Webserver/AppServer Infrastructure to support access to mainframe legacy 

(Cobol, VSAM, Natural/Adabase) application access via the portal; 

e)  Proposed hosting strategy; 

f)  Network, connectivity strategy; 

g)  Support plan to efficiently manage this heterogeneous infrastructure; 

h)  Identity Management solution to provide authentication, authorization, and 

audit of all access to portal provided services and applications; 

i)  Intrusion Detection/Prevention/Response solution; 

j)  Portal integration solution to rapidly and simply integrate services into the 

portal, whether such integration solution currently is  available via a state 

department and other state and local government entity website, become 

available as a web service, or exist on a legacy system (e.g., Microsoft, Unix, 

or Mainframe Cobol/VSAM, Natural/Adabase) 

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