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Data Center Procurement - What are your experiences!
Data Center Managers/Buyers - When managing a data center how do you manage procurement? Do you issue RFPs, RFIs, etc or do you rely on a existing suppliers to provide your needs?
Data Center Suppliers - What is your experiences from the receiving end of the procurement process? Do you often get RFIs/RFQs/RFPs/RFTs? What are the major issues you face in dealing and responding to these?
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Permalink Reply by Richard Sebastian on
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Just went through a major construction project for the military. We had to do RFI's/RPF's, "bake offs", and trade studies for every component of the new data center. It was a total cluster. Especially when; after 5 years of planning and research; a brand new (non-technical, non-engineer) guy came in and un-did everything we did!
Fortunately, the cost to un-do the close coupled cooling solution I came up with; so they could put in a 1950's style perimeter cooling solution instead; far exceeded the cost to stick with what I had designed.
Unfortunately, the computing platform that HIS engineers picked, he replaced with the vendor that came in dead last in our study. Why? Because it's what we already had! Why change?
So you ask; "What are my experiences?" My experiences are; you need to manage the dinosaurs along with the procurement when you're trying to design a new data center. It's impossible to manage the procurement when you're dealing with people who don't understand the technology. If they don't understand what you're trying to do; or worse yet; if they THINK they understand what they want to do instead of listening to the engineers; you're in for a very long, very expensive, very behind schedule project.
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