Summary
The State of South Dakota's Bureau of Information and Technology issued RFP 26RFP19861 ("Mainframe Disaster Recovery Services 2026") seeking a qualified vendor to provide secure, facility-based mainframe disaster recovery hosting for critical government systems. The solicitation requests collocation of specified state-owned equipment (Luminex VTS MVTi, Fortigate firewalls, Juniper switch, IBM mainframe and encrypted DASD storage) plus vendor-provided hosting infrastructure (cabinet space, power feeds/PDUs, single-mode FICON fiber, networking, VM or z/OS starter) and 24x7 support, testing and recovery services. The environment must meet federal cybersecurity and audit standards (NIST 800-53 Rev.5, SOC 2 Type II or FedRAMP as applicable), keep data within the continental U.S., and proposals are due per the buyer posting on Aug 1, 2026 (see buyer posting for time-zone specifics).