Sidbi is looking for a service provider who can offer data center co-location facility for the bank in Mumbai/Navi Mumbai for the data center and Chennai for the DR site. The bank wants the facility to not only meet its current requirements but also should be expandable / scalable to consolidate other IT installations from a long-term perspective. Currently the data center and DR site are hosted at the bank’s own premises. These facilities are ISO 27001:2013 certified. The bank has MPLS VPN connectivity in hub and spoke architecture connecting all the locations. It has outsourced the management of DC and DR site to third party. The intention is to hire physical space and required infrastructure facilities from well-established and reputed data center vendors, for co-locating its servers, network equipment and other equipment hosted currently at its DC and DR site. The period of contract would be 5 years extendable up to another five years or part thereof. It is looking for minimum Tier3 complied data center infrastructure.