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The Three Rivers Planning and Development District in Mississippi is seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide Information Technology Cloud Hosting Management Services. The District is looking for a firm to host its systems in a Tier 3 or higher data center, provide high availability redundancy, implement security measures such as multifactor authentication and cybersecurity safeguards, and perform daily system administration tasks. The selected firm will be responsible for migrating the District's existing IBM Power 8 System, which has reached "End of Life" status, into a Cloud Hosted Environment with fully managed services. Proposals will be evaluated based on Qualifications (40 points), Experience (20 points), Capacity/Capability (10 points), Approach (10 points), Past Performance (10 points), and Financial Stability (10 points). Proposals must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. (Central Time) on November 11, 2024.

The District encourages Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBEs) and Woman-owned Business Enterprises (WBEs) to submit proposals. The contract will be awarded on a fixed-price basis, and the District reserves the right to negotiate with the qualified firm whose proposal has the next highest number of cumulative points, as well as to reject any and/or all proposals and terminate the selection at any time. No incumbent vendor or current contractor information is provided, but the District's existing infrastructure and technology will need to be integrated into the new cloud-based system.