Enterprise Storage System Replacement Services
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SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
TIMELINE
RFP Issued: September 14th, 2026
Deadline for Proposer Questions: September 28th, 2026
City Responses to Questions and Addenda Issued: September 30th, 2026
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 7th, 2026
Proposal Evaluation: October 8th, 2026 – October 15th, 2026
Proposer Clarifications or Presentations: October 15th, 2026 – October 23rd, 2026
Notice of Intent to Award: October 30th, 2026
Anticipated Contract Award: November 10th, 2026
Anticipated Project Start: December 1st, 2026
QUESTION DEADLINE
CONTACTS
Primary procurement contact — name, title, email, and phone
Additional decision-makers and their departments
Issuing Agency
City Of West Des Moines
DESCRIPTION
A government authority in West Des Moines, Iowa is seeking vendor services to replace or modernize its current enterprise storage environment. Proposed solutions must include two clustered storage environments.
Each cluster should provide approximately 768 terabytes of raw storage, for approximately 1,536 terabytes of combined raw capacity. Solutions must include redundant power supplies, standard NAS hard disk drives for long-term storage and slower-write workloads, SSD flash storage for faster-write performance and cache services, and server-management connectivity such as IPMI, BMC, Dell iDRAC, or an equivalent system.
Each storage shelf must provide either two SFP+ 10-gigabit network connections or two SFP28 25-gigabit connections, with the 25-gigabit configuration preferred. All vendor questions must be submitted by September 28, 2026, and proposals are due October 7, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
- When is the submission deadline?
- Submissions are due October 7, 2026. Questions must be submitted by September 28, 2026.
- Who issued this RFP?
- It was issued by City Of West Des Moines. The work is located in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
- Who is a good fit for this opportunity?
- Enterprise data storage vendors and systems integrators
- Demonstrated experience designing and deploying clustered NAS and hybrid HDD/SSD environments
- Expertise with high-capacity storage infrastructure and 10/25-gigabit networking
- Ability to provide redundant, manageable systems for government or public-sector organizations
- Strong technical support and enterprise infrastructure implementation capabilities
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