Request for Proposal (RFP) for Technical and Functional Specifications for Building a Tier-III Data Center for Bhutan Telecom

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1 Request for Proposal (RFP) for Technical and Functional Specifications for Building a Tier-III Data Center for Bhutan Telecom (Version: 1.0 Date: 26 April 2013) TIMELINE FOR RFP: 1. Pre-bid Meeting: 10:00AM-5:00PM on 10 th May 2013 at Data Center Site, Bhutan Telecom Office, South- Western Region, Phuentsholing, Bhutan. 2. Deadline for RFP Submission: Only one sealed & signed original hard copy of RFP and a soft copy in PDF format should be submitted before or at 10:00AM on 24 th May 2013 in person or by post to: Manager Procurement Section Per & Adm Division PO Box 134 Bhutan Telecom, 2/28 Drophen Lam Thimphu Bhutan CONTACT POINT: All inquiries on this RFP should be directed to the following: Mr. Jichen Thinley, Project Manager (Regional Manager, South-Western Region), Bhutan Telecom jichen.thinley@bt.bt Phone: Fax: Mobile: Postal Address: PO Box No. 66, Bhutan Telecom, Phuentsholing, Bhutan Page 1 of 10

2 I. Introduction Bhutan Telecom (BT) is the leading telecommunications services provider providing landline telephony service as the sole operator; data (primarily Internet services as the biggest Internet Service Provider) service and domestic & international connectivity; and GSM (mobile) with 3G service (as the market leader) in Bhutan. BT has about 27,000 landline telephone customers, 17,000 fixed broadband subscribers, 230 enterprise customers for its data & connectivity services, and 421,700 mobile customers including that of 3G. The 4G LTE will be launched for trial for 2 sites in the capital Thimphu within this year. It is primarily to serve enterprise customers national and international (in the future) that BT plan to build a 5000 sq. ft. Data Center meeting the standards of Tier-III specifications as per the Telecommunications Industry Association s TIA-942 which comprises mainly the redundant & fully fault-tolerant capacity components including storage, chillers, HVAC, servers, etc. with dual-powered equipment and multiple uplinks guaranteeing an uptime of %. II. Size and Location The Data Center shall be built on the two floors: ground and the first; of approximate area of 2500 sq. ft. each making the combined total size of 5000 sq. ft. (approximately) in a 3-floor building which has been recently constructed in BT premise in Phuentsholing, Bhutan. The potential bidders are encouraged to visit the site before the submission of RFP. III. Scope of Work (in High-level) The Data Center and its infrastructure should be built on a turnkey basis meeting the standards of Tier-III as per TIA-942. Essentially, but not limited to, the Scope of Work shall include design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handing over with one year warranty the Data Center with necessary infrastructure like the: interior jobs with painting, precision air conditioning system, fire detection & supression, power, UPS & DG, electrical, lighting, network cabling, multilayer physical security using biometric/smart card, etc. based on access control, IP surveillance, water leakage & detection, rodent repellent, and other incidental and necessary components required to complete Tier-III Data Center specifications in all aspects. Further, the solutions should be proposed to establish very effective and efficient infrastructure monitoring & management systems/practices to ensure Tier-III reliability, availability, Quality of Services and security of information system. While the high-level scope of work has been outlined, Bidders are requested to prepare exact BOM required based on the total area provided in the RFP. IV. Design Considerations The Data Center should be capable to provide an uptime of %. It has to be compliant to a Tier-III standards as per TIA-942. The design should be scalable to offer scalability over a minimum period of 7 years and capable to house up to many nos. of 42U server racks (132 nos. if only racks) and cages. Key considerations should be taken in to build for redundancy, scalability, modularity, possibility of isolation and maintainability. The entire Data Center should be designed on the two floors clearly demarcated as per the architecture designs of Ground and First floors. All partitions should be constructed with fire-rated particle board and glass which will increase the aesthetic look. All doors should be 2 hours fire-rated glass. Necessary measures should be taken for making the Page 2 of 10

3 critical server farm area tight, fire proof and free from condensation and dust. The electrical system should be designed to Tier-III standards to allow concurrent maintainability. The secondary power should be DG set. Cooling should taken with N+1 redundancy for server farm area. The auxiliary areas should be provided with comfort AC with necessary redundancy. The structured cabling for the racks within the server farm area should meet CAT6A based design system with flexible deployment option in the form of enclosures in the flase floor. The physical security of the total Data Center area including Network Operation Center (NOC) room and Building Management System (BMS), viewing room should be taken care in multiple levels. Physical access restrictions shall be addressed through Access Control System in multiple doors. The critical areas shall be monitored through IP surveillance system with storing option. The equipment and human safety from the incidents shall be met with the help of fire alarm system. Further control action on fire/alarm shall be dealt using the fluid type NOVEC1230- based fire suppression system for server room and other rooms will be handled by portable fire extinguishers. The rodent repellent and water leakage detection systems should be installed in the server farm area. Physical infrastructure components will be controlled through BMS to provide alerts and alarms to the personnel operating and managing the infrastructure. The following but not limited to, are the major high-level systems design considerations that should included: S/N Systems 1 Interior Jobs i. Partitions ii. Doors iii. Thermal insulation on floor iv. Raised flooring v. POP and paints vi. Ramp 2 Electrical Works i. Power distribution system with LT panel ii. Cabling & wiring through cable tray iii. Lighting system iv. DG system v. UPS system vi. Earth 3 Cooling solution and PAC system 4 Physical Security with IP Survellance and Access Contol 5 Fire Suppression system with NOVEC Fire Detection system 7 Water Leakage & Detection 8 Passive Networking & Cabling 9 Rodent Repellant System 10 BMS system V. Guidelines for Technical & Functional Specifications of Major Components The following but not limited can be used as the guidelines to draw up and submit the full proposal for Technical & Functional Specifications for building a Tier-III Data Center for BT. Page 3 of 10

4 1. Architectural and Interior Jobs This should cover supply, design and implementation of architectural and interior jobs for the Data Center with supply of all accessories / tools required for aesthetic, durability and technically superior solution for the following but not limited to: i. Paint work with POP ii. False flooring iii. Floor insulation iv. Partitioning (fire-rated) v. Doors vi. Required miscellaneous civil work as per Data Center site s requirement Insulation Work The floor shall be heat-insulated or coated with a heat insulating material to avoid condensation on floors below and above to reduce heat transfer to the server/network rooms. Insulation should be done with minimum 9 mm thick self-adhesive aluminum foil face nitrite rubber. The ceiling and floor should be coated with epoxy paint Raised Floor for Server Farm and Associated Rooms The floor will cover server farm areas, BMS, fire panel and NOC rooms. The server farm are with combined area of 2x2500 sq. ft. should be provisioned to place many nos. of 42U (1000mm x 800mm) server racks (132 nos. if only racks) and cages in both floors. Supply and installation of false floor (450mm thickness) of fire retardant category which should be replaceable/interchangeable floor panels of 18 SWG steel, 600mm x 600 mm with top HPL of 1.5mm thickness with PVC beats. The floor system should be capable to withstand a UDL of 1080 kgs per sq. mt. and point load of 380 kgs. The understructure should be able to accept a pedestal axial load of 2200 kgs. The supply requires numbers of grommets for passive through wire and cables; and perforated tile for airflow. There should be thermal insulation of the base floor with thick insulation for all the areas Partitioning Work Fireproof aluminum composite panel with 8mm thick fire-rated particle board in bottom half and upper half with toughened glass of size 8mm thick with 2 hours minimum fire-rated for partition between server room, monitoring room and help Desk area on first floor room, and control room and viewing room on the ground floor. All gaps should be filled with rubber runner Doors All doors should be 12mm thick glass with fireproof aluminum composite panel and 2 hours fire-rated. The doors should be completed with all accessories. Door 1: Entrance to server farm area. Size: 3.5 ft. x 7 ft. for both the floors. Door 2: Control room door. Size: 3 ft. x 7 ft. on the ground floor. Page 4 of 10

5 Door 3: Monitoring room door. Size: 3 ft. x 7 ft. on the first floor. Door 4: Emergency door. Size: 3 ft. x 7 ft. for both the floors Painting It should be anti-dust. The existing surfaces should be cleaned with scratched before the application of punning material. After drying, the smoothening should be done rubbing with sandpaper. Upon the smoothened surface, one coat of primer and two coats of fire-rated paint of high-quality make and shade should be applied Ramp The ramp is of concrete (cement) and it will have to be finished with corrugated rubber mat at server farm entrance of both the floors. Size of each ramp is 4x5 ft. with an elevation angle of Electrical System and Equipment It shall cover design, engineering, assembly, testing and commissioning of complete electrical system and equipment and their accessories for efficient and trouble free operations and maintenance. The following design considerations can be taken: i. Electrical power load of 6KW per server rack (approximately). ii. Electrical power distribution should be provided with redundant path to avoid single point of failure. All elements of electrical systems including backup system are should be fully duplicated to provide N+1 redundancy iii. There should be provision to integrate additional power from second transformer. iv. More UPS systems and DG set should be able to integrate in the future. v. BT premise at where Data Center site is located currently has 500KVA capacity for the entire premise. Of this, 100KVA are in use and the rest 400KVA can be used for Data Center. vi. Electrical system should provide power to all utilities like the precision air conditioning, lighting, power distribution boards, utility UPS, etc. vii. The following tentative list of equipment should be supplied, installed and commissioned: 1. Modular type LT panel with multiple feeder 2. UPS panel with a provision of adding more UPS 3. Distributed inputs for precision AC supply system 4. BBT system with plug socket for power distribution to utilities 5. Distribution board for illumination 6. Power distribution board for raw power source 7. Distribution board from UPS system (UPSDB) 8. Cabling system with associated cables and cable trays 9. Earthing system for LT installations and UPS neutrals 10. Miscellaneous items for complete functioning of the system viii. Server farm load of about 132 nos. server racks with dual source of 32Amp industrial plug socket per rack. Page 5 of 10

6 3. UPS System There should be at least 400KVA UPS system in Parallel Redundant System (PRS) N+1 mode with backup (with SMF batteries) to cater to % reliability to feed power 30 nos. of server racks initially. In future, it is projected to require 3x400KVA with the same reliability with SMF battery bank connected in PRS N+1 mode that should be able to supply 800KVA power. Under PRS mode, all UPS should cater equal percentage of power i.e. if one fails; other(s) will supply 100% of the load. The monitoring of UPS enabled with SNMP card will be done through a LAN network. 4. Diesel Generator Set A DG set with automatic start-stop i.e. with all the automatic features should be used. The normal power supply for the Data Center shall be available from the LT panels. The DG set which will be used, as the standby power source will be connected to cater power in black out condition. LT panel should have an inbuilt arrangement of two bus sections: one for normal supply & another for DG supply. The interlocking features between two different sections of buses will have to be provided in the LT panel. The DG control panel should be integrated with this LT panel by power & control cabling. The system will should be installed with AMF panel along with required earth-pits. 5. Cooling Solution The precision air conditioning should be installed by considering the following design, scope and requirement. i. Design Considerations There should be fully redundant microprocessor-based digitalscrolled Precision Air Conditioning (PAC) system. Cool air feed should be bottom-charged or downward-flow type using the raised floor as supply plenum using perforated aluminum tiles for airflow distribution. The return airflow should be through false ceiling to cater to the natural upward moment of hot air. Cooling should be done by the Precision Air Conditioning system only. PAC should be capable of providing sensible cooling capacities at design ambient temperature & humidity with adequate airflow. As per the requirement, there would be around 130 racks. The PAC should be integrated with the BMS for effective monitoring. PAC system should cool the server rooms and other rooms on the basis of available rooms size and estimated load. 5 nos. of 30 TR floor discharge type PAC can be considered for each floor of Data Center. Out of five units, four units should be active while one can be in standby mode to provide redundancy. ii. Scope Considerations This shall include: Connecting the indoor unit with the main electrical point. Connecting indoor and outdoor units mechanically (with 18G hard Gauge copper piping). Connecting indoor and outdoor unit electrically. Page 6 of 10

7 Nitrogen pressure testing, triple vacuum, final gas charging. Connecting the humidity feed line with the point provided. Connecting the drain line with the point provided. iii. iv. Temperature and Humidity Requirement The inside environment of server rooms shall need to be continuously maintained at centigrade and ambient RH level shall need to be maintained at 50% +-5 non-condensing. Humidity sensors should be installed. PAC System Component Requirement a. 28TR Digital scrolled indoor unit b. Outdoor units for the above system c. Inbuilt network control card d. Required quantity of R407C refrigerant gas e. Copper piping with insulator f. Humidifier pipe g. Drain pipe h. Cable with other accessories to complete the system 6. Building Management System (BMS) BMS should be proposed by considering the following scope and design requirement. i. Scope Integrated MBS GUI software of high-performance, building automation system for monitoring and managing devices and systems, including HVAC, lighting, water, electrical equipment, etc. will be needed. It should be an application of building integrator platform utilizers conforming to open system standards to seamlessly integrate every control and information system with the facility/enterprise. Building integrator platform shall have singlewindow control over all building operations, and all the relevant data needed to maximize building performance. ii. System Design Architecture Enterprise building integrator platform should have architecture to provide a scalable system that accommodate configurations ranging from a small single-node system to an extended system with multiple stations connected across a LAN. It should cover: PAC monitoring Life safety monitoring Energy usage monitoring IP Surveillance systems LAN-based digital video management Time and attendance 7. Intelligent Addressable Fire Detection System Page 7 of 10

8 Intelligent addressable fire detection with alarm system with central monitoring system will be required. This system should be installed at server farm areas, NOC room, Help Desk room, control room and monitoring room. The system should incorporate following designs: Intelligent addressable fire alarm control panel with inbuilt battery Photo electric smoke detector Heat detector Response indicator Manual pull station Hooter Cable and other accessories require to complete the system 8. Fire Suppression System Following scope, design and information should be considered: i. Scope Fire suppression system with friendly fluid type NOVEC1230 agent can be used for the server farm areas only. This fire suppression system should be integrated with fire alarm system. For other areas, ABC-type portable fire extinguishers should be proposed. ii. Design The system should automatically discharge suppression agent after getting signal from the fire alarm panel. System can be designed with: a. Agent cylinder 120 ltr. capacity b. NOVAC1230 clean agent iii. c. Local manual actuator d. Flexible Discharge House e. Check value f. Discharge nozzle g. Pipes, cylinder manifold, fittings, etc. Information useful for consideration in clean agent fire suppression The lessor harmful fluid type agent NOVEC1230 should be proposed. Clean agent system considered for total flooding application is in compliance with the provisions of Kyoto protocol. Care should be taken that none of the Greenhouse gases identified in the Kyoto protocol is used for fire suppression application. The minimum criterion for the section of the clean agent Page 8 of 10

9 should be on: zero ozone depleting potential; global warming potential not exceeding one; atmospheric lifetime not exceeding 24 hours. Clean agent fire suppression system with FK-5-12 and inert Gas based systems are accepted as a replacement of HCFC and HFC as per Kyoto Protocol. The Clean Agent considered for the suppression system must be suitable for occupied areas with NOAEL level (No observable adverse effect level) of 10% to ensure high safety margin for the human in the hazard zone. Care should be given to ensure proper early warning detection system with minimum sensitivity of 0.03% per foot obscuration as per NFPA 318 & NFPA 72 to ensure that one gets a very early warning to investigate the incipient fire much before the other detectors activate the fire suppression system automatically. 9. Access Control System It should be IP-based access control system that will cover: normal door entry and exit with reader and controllers; emergency exits; locking devices, etc. and should have time attendance system with following design consideration. Design Consideration All doors should have access control security implemented. Biometric card reader should control the access to the server room door, main entrance doors on each floor. Proximity card reader will control the other two doors including emergency exit of each floor. The overall system will be controlled by BMS system with the following units: a. Multi door segment controller with power supply, IP connectivity and battery backup. b. Reader interface module to connect readers to central controllers. c. Proximity card reader. d. Biometric finger print reader. e. Single door electromagnetic lock. f. Magnetic contact (surface mount). g. Emergency release switch. h. Access management software with time and attendance features. 10. Surveillance System The system should an IP surveillance system to monitor the entire Data Center infrastructure and should be designed with: a. IP based colour dome fixed lens camera b. Indoor type HD PTZ camera Page 9 of 10

10 c. Video surveillance manager server d. Operation manager with software e. Video storage up to 30 days f. Virtual matrix software g. 80 LED display 11. Rodent Repellent System The pest repellent system should consist of one master console installed in Help Desk room and twelve satellites/transducers in the problem areas. The operation should be such that the powerful high frequency sound waves (well above the 30KHz frequency which is the upper limit of the hearing range of human ear) generated by the satellites are within the hearing range of many pests, but cause pain and discomfort thereby forcing them to abandon the areas. 12. Water Leakage Detection System Water leakage detection integrated with the BMS system should be designed to protect the air-conditioned premises and to alert the personnel about the leakage in the AC systems. The systems shall be capable of interfacing to water leakage detection sensors, condensation sensors/detectors, I/O modules and sounders all connected to control panel so that events are clearly reported on LED display indicating the nature of fault. 13. Passive Networking (LAN) The scope should comprise of design, supply, laying, installation, testing and commissioning of structured Local Area Networking (LAN) / cabling in the Data Center. The network will also connect associated rooms including Power (UPS) room to bring all the power system under LAN. The following design should be considered: a. The networking/cabling should be designed with CAT6A, which supports minimum of 10G both on copper and fiber cable. b. 4 Main Distribution Area (MDA) racks will be placed in Row 1 of each floor. c. On each floor there will two numbers of active network racks and two numbers of passive racks. d. There will be two MUX room one will be on the ground floor and other will be at the adjacent building. e. CAT6A 24 ports per rack. f. 48 fiber OM4 core per rack. g. The connection between the MUX room and MDA rack will be Fiber. Page 10 of 10