3. Physical Plant and Physical Security

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Data Center Building

SpecOrg Data Center is a Government-owned, contractor-operated facility housed in the NAME building at ADDRESS which is a 32,000+ square foot facility which consists of the following: computer equipment area, office area, uninterruptible power system area, tape library area, and warehouse.

Physical Security

The NAME Building is a single level building of masonry construction with embedded windows around the perimeter. There are twelve (12) exterior doors leading into the facility. Two (2) doors are secured via a card key system, and six (10) are manually locked at all times. The facility is equipped with an intrusion detection alarm system that is monitored by the local security service.

One of the two entrances controlled by the card system is located in the front of the building facing NAME Road. The other is the visitors' entrance located on the side of the building facing the parking lot. The visitors' entrance is monitored by a security guard twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. The visitors' entrance card key system is in operation Monday through Friday from 6:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M. and twenty-four (24) hours a day on weekends and holidays. Although the front door card key system is operational twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, the exterior door is bolted and key locked from 6:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M.

The Computer room has four entrances. All four entrances are off a hallway that leads into a raised floor, recessed ceiling environment. Each door has a card key system with different access levels that is in operation twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week.

Fire Detection and Suppression

The fire detection system consists of heat detectors and Ionization-type smoke detectors located above and below the suspended ceiling and under the raised floor. When an alarm sounds, a panel inside the computer room indicates which device detected the problem. The fire alarm system is also monitored by the local security service.

The building contains an automatic fire suppression system consisting of a "total-flooding, wet-pipe system" with sprinkler heads above and below the suspended ceiling.

Energy Management

The data center is environmentally controlled by twelve 20 ton Liebert air conditioning units that compensate for the generated heat load, which varies across the seasons. Heat and air conditioning are provided to office space external to the data center by roof-mounted units and a oil-fired, hot water baseboard heat system. The warehouse area is environmentally controlled by a eight-ton, roof-mounted heat pump.

Electrical power is provided by redundant feeds originating in separate commercial electric power substations. Critical electrical power is provided by two Emmerson Electric automatic transfer switches and two Liebert Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS), with 15-minute battery backup. One of the two 500 KVA UPS systems is modular in design, with a total capacity of 2,000 kVA.

Off-Site Data Storage

The data center backs-up all data media storage on a daily basis. The data are then transported to the NAME off-site storage facility in ADDRESS. The NAME facility subcontract is managed by the NAME Contractor. NAME meets all Government requirements for an off-site storage facility.

Hot-Site for Disaster Recovery

SpecOrg has a contract with NAME of ADDRESS, for hot-site support. In the event of a total or partial disaster at SpecOrg data center and the decision is made to activate the hot-site, a designated team will travel to the hot site to operate the facility in place of the SpecOrg data center.

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