M3 Datacenter Relocation and Decommission

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is seeking capability statements from businesses that can provide professional services to relocate information technology infrastructure from the Alternate Processing Facility (APF) in Ashburn, Virginia, to NIH Building 33 in Bethesda, Maryland, and to complete physical decommissioning of the APF. The project requires the contractor to provide project management, scheduling, and a single point of contact, as well as to coordinate all relocation activities with the government. The contractor must also relocate approximately four equipment racks, storage arrays containing approximately 135 TB of data, and ESXi hardware identified by the government. Other requirements include packing, transporting, unpacking, installing rack slides, and re-racking equipment at NIH Building 33, maintaining chain of custody and asset tracking for government equipment during transport, disconnecting and removing designated electrical distribution equipment, racks, fiber tray, ladder rack, containment, and miscellaneous tenant-owned infrastructure identified by the government, replacing approximately 60 damaged raised floor tiles where required, cleaning above and below the raised floor using HEPA vacuum equipment and static-safe cleaning methods, patching and painting affected wall surfaces, and removing and properly disposing of or recycling decommissioned materials in accordance with applicable regulations. • The contractor must provide clear and convincing documentation of their capability to provide the products and support services specified in the notice. • The contractor must identify and demonstrate specifically how they will meet the requirements listed above. • The contractor must provide information about their staff expertise, including availability, experience, formal and other training. • The contractor must provide information about their prior completed projects of similar nature. • The contractor must provide information about their compliance with requirements.