2025_Dell_R550_Servers.pdf

REQUEST FOR BID PROPOSAL

Dell PowerEdge R550 servers

BARROW COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Barrow County School District

179 W. Athens Street Winder, Georgia 30680

E-mail itsbids@barrow.k12.ga.us

Barrow County Board of Education 179 W. Athens St.

Winder, Georgia 30680

John St.Clair itsbids@barrow.k12.ga.us

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR

Dell PowerEdge R550 Servers

To: All Interested Vendors You are invited to submit a formal proposal (bid) for Dell PowerEdge 550 rackmount servers for the Barrow County School District in accordance with the attached General Conditions and Specifications.

Proposals from bidders will be received until 11:00 A.M. local time, on Tuesday, Feb 11th.

Proposals must be emailed to the attention of John St.Clair at ITSBids@barrow.k12.ga.us.

Emailed proposals will only be deemed accepted for consideration upon delivery of a confirmation email from jstclair@barrow.k12.ga.us to vendor’s email indicating receipt of proposal. If vendor does not receive confirmation of receipt of proposal via email, vendor should consider proposal not to have been delivered. It is vendor’s responsibility to ensure email has been received.

Barrow County reserves right to postpone bid opening to later the same day beyond original due date/time in event of delay of email services. Proposals must be valid for a period of 90 days after bid opening. Barrow County Schools reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive any informality in bidding.

Questions may be directed to Mr. John St.Clair via e-mail to ITSBids@barrow.k12.ga.us.

mailto:itsbids@barrow.k12.ga.us

GENERAL CONDITIONS

The Barrow County School System seeks competitive bids for Dell PowerEdge R550 servers as per the specific criteria to follow, as well as the following general conditions:

• Servers must be completely new.

• All components must be new.

• Vendor must be authorized by Dell to sell Dell’s servers – no grey market allowed. Vendor must furnish proof of authorization to sell Dell servers.

• Servers must be eligible for district to contact Dell directly for warranty/technical support without going through vendor.

• No installation services are required.

• Pricing must include shipping and any other costs.

Two options are sought. One with servers populated with storage drives, and one with servers without storage drives. The district seeks to purchase up to 18 servers depending on costs.

Responses must include a vendor quote and the attached Vendor Response Form. Due to supply chain concerns, vendor must indicate in response estimated delivery times and any potential issues in delivery.

SPECIFIC CRITERIA

OPTION ONE with storage drives:

• Model: Dell PowerEdge R550

• 3.5" Chassis with up to 8 Hard Drives

• 2x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4316 2.3G, 20C/40T, 10.4GT/s, 30M Cache, Turbo, HT (150W) DDR4-2666

• 4x 16GB RDIMM, 3200MT/s, Dual Rank

• 1x BOSS-S2 controller card + with 2 M.2 480GB (RAID 1), Hot-Plug, V2

• 8x 12TB Hard Drive SAS 12Gbps 7.2K 512e 3.5in Hot-Plug

• 1x Front PERC H755 Front Load

• 1x Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T Adapter, OCP NIC 3.0

• 2x Broadcom 57414 Dual Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, PCIe Low Profile, V2

• 1x. ReadyRails Static Rails for 2/4-post Racks

• Dual, Fully Redundant(1+1), Hot-Plug Power Supply,1100W MM(100-240Vac) Titanium

• iDRAC9, Enterprise 15G

• LCD Bezel

• 5 Years Basic Hardware Warranty Repair 5x10 HW-Only 5x10 Next Business Day Onsite

OPTION TWO without storage drives:

• Model: Dell PowerEdge R550

• 3.5" Chassis with up to 8 Hard Drives

• 2x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4316 2.3G, 20C/40T, 10.4GT/s, 30M Cache, Turbo, HT (150W) DDR4-2666

• 4x 16GB RDIMM, 3200MT/s, Dual Rank

• 1x BOSS-S2 controller card + with 2 M.2 480GB (RAID 1), Hot-Plug, V2

• 1x 1.2TB Hard Drive SAS ISE 12Gbps 10k 512n 2.5in with 3.5in HYB CARR

• 1x Front PERC H755 Front Load

• 1x Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T Adapter, OCP NIC 3.0

• 2x Broadcom 57414 Dual Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, PCIe Low Profile, V2

• 1x. ReadyRails Static Rails for 2/4-post Racks

• Dual, Fully Redundant(1+1), Hot-Plug Power Supply,1100W MM(100-240Vac) Titanium

• iDRAC9, Enterprise 15G

• LCD Bezel

• 5 Years Basic Hardware Warranty Repair 5x10 HW-Only 5x10 Next Business Day Onsite

Trade Names “or Equal” Clause

No manufacturer or model substitutions will be allowed.

The Barrow County School System may accept any bid offered on an all, some, or none basis, within funds available, whichever is in the best interest of the school system.

Vendor Response Form

Business Name: ___________________________________________________________________________

Business Address: _________________________________________________________________________

Business Phone: ___________________________________________________________________________

Business SAM.GOV cage number:

Business Representative Name:

Email address:

OPTION ONE (with storage drives) – cost per server: $_________________________________

- Total cost for 18 servers: $_______________________________________________

OPTION TWO (without storage drives) – cost per server: $_________________________________

- Total cost for 18 servers: $_______________________________________________

Estimated shipping time: _________________________________________________________________

Indicate date after which response pricing/availability is no longer guaranteed: _______________________