(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The National Security Agency (www.nsa.gov) has narrowed down the more than a dozen engineering and construction firms bidding on a $1.7 billion data center project at Utah’s Camp Williams to just five groups of companies.
First revealed last July, the agency began accepting bids for the project in January.
The five finalist are Whiting-Turner of Baltimore and Dynamic Systems of Austin, Texas; Turner Construction of New York, Kiewit Building Group of Omaha, and Jacobsen Construction of Salt Lake City; Skansa USA Building of Parsipanny, New Jersey, and Oakland Construction of Salt Lake City; Balfour Beatty Construction of Dallas, DPR Construction of Redwood City, California, and Big-D Construction of Salt Lake City; and Hensel Phelps Construction of Greeley, Colorado, and other partners.
The planned data center will span about one million square feet, most of which will be data center floor.
It will have a total power capacity of 65MW at full build-out, with 30 MW available once the first phase is completed.
The first phase will be completed by March 2013, says the agency.
The NSA will operate the data center on behalf of several intelligence agencies, whose primary mission will be “cyberwarfare.”
The contract is expected to be awarded in September and will require the construction and engineering firms to complete the data center for the agency in just over three years.
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