Regulated and Sensitive Research Data Service

The government authority located in Albany, NY seeks a vendor to provide a regulated and sensitive research data service under a one-year contract. The buyer requires the design, supply, installation, and integration of an isolated high-performance computing enclave. The vendor must provide design assessments and recommendations on open architectural questions, including storage sourcing and the network perimeter. The requested scope covers racks, PDUs, cabling, professional services, acceptance and performance testing, documentation, training, GPU backend interconnect, frontend and storage Ethernet, out-of-band management network, multi-tenant storage platform, network perimeter and security boundary, workload orchestration, identity and access management, and key management. The final design must adhere to a maximum power requirement of approximately 100kW, and the buyer prefers an Infrastructure-as-code baseline and delivery pipeline. Bidders must perform the work both onshore (USA only) and via offsite and onsite performance. The buyer is looking for proposal budgets, and bidders must submit all questions no later than September 18, 2026.