Hi Ken,
Op 18-10-2013 22:05, Ken Snider schreef:
The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Operations team is seeking proposals on the provisioning of a new data-centre facility.
After working through the specifics internally, we now have a public RFP posted[1] and ready for proposals. We invite any organization meeting the requirements outlined to submit a proposal for review.
You have stated some technical requirements, but not the availability you would like to have. You probably want to include that you're looking for a tier-4 data center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_4_data_center#Data_center_tiers). Is this one going to replace the Florida data center? Where are you keeping documentation these days? The information on wikitech seems to be very incomplete and outdated.
Something related: While travelling in China I noticed the bad performance of our sites. Would it be a good idea to investigate this (lack of) performance and maybe consider a caching site somewhere in Asia? The latency should be much better than getting is all the way from the USA. http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/GLIF_5-11_World_4k.jpg (from http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/) gives a good idea of connectivity by the way.
Maarten