City of Nashua
Information Technology Department (603) 589-3300
Administrative Services Division Fax (603) 594-3434
229 Main Street - Nashua, NH 03060
January 12, 2022
Ms. Kelly Parkinson
Purchasing Manager, City of Nashua
229 Main St
Nashua, NH 03061-2019
RE: Server Upgrade and DR Site
Ms. Parkinson,
The Information Technology Department needs to purchase fifteen (15) new servers to upgrade the
virtual host servers at the City’s primary data center and begin the buildout of the disaster recovery
site. This purchase is being made pursuant to NRO Sec 5-84 (A) (10), Special purchase procedures
which follows previous server purchases with this vendor.
These new servers will expand the capacity, lower the physical footprint, and reduce energy
consumption of the primary datacenter. Additionally, this is the first step in building out the
disaster recovery site which Mayor Donchess has requested to be completed. The existing servers
older than 10+ years will be retired as they are well past their stable life. The remaining servers will
be repurposed to other locations and applications throughout the City.
The disaster recovery site will provide continuity of business operations in the event of an
unrecoverable incident at the primary datacenter. Unfortunately, COVID caused a major delay to
the timeframe of the original build-out of the disaster recovery site, which is the reason why it is
starting now.
The Information Technology Department recommends awarding the bid to Dell Technologies in the
amount of $141,840.75. Funding is available in the CERF, Activity CERF22.20 TF18.7026 81342.
Sincerely,
Nick Miseirvitch
CIO, Information Technology
Cc: Kimberly Kleiner, Director of Administrative Services
