The HP Enterprise contract offers extremely competitive pricing discounts for network, wireless, and server and storage-related equipment. This agreement reflects MHEC’s commitment to help member states access scalable, secure, and cost-effective IT solutions through collaborative procurement. This cooperative agreement was awarded through a competitive, transparent RFP process
Contract Terms & Eligibility
Effective December 15, 2020–January 31, 2028.
Eligible to higher education institutions (public and private not-for-profit), K-12 districts and schools, cities, counties, local subdivisions, and state government in MHEC, NEBHE, SREB, and WICHE member states.
Stacey Pierce
HPE SLED, US Route to Market Manager
(512) 319-1012
Nathan Sorensen
Senior Director of Government Contracts, MHEC
(612) 677-2767
Solicitation Due Diligence
MHEC published a public solicitation for Virtualization & Data Center Modernization MHEC-RFP-03092020 on March 9, 2021, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) Public solicitation announcements were formally published in the Illinois Procurement Bulletin for Public Institutions of Higher Education, the Minnesota State Register, and MHEC’s website.
The purpose of the request for proposal was to seek innovative and cost-effective virtualization solutions to assist education institutions transition their infrastructures to the modern data center and network; where workloads may reside on-premise or across varied public and private cloud
providers on a secure network.
On the May 12, 2020, due date 16 proposals were received. The selection committee scored each of the proposals based on best value according to the evaluation criteria stated in the request for proposal and proposals were short listed to four finalists. In addition to the written submission, all finalists were required to present their proposed solution with the selection committee in a virtual respondent’s conference, which took place on July 14, 15, and 29, 2020. Follow-up questions were sent to the finalists with answers received in August 2020.
Upon, meeting all of the requirements of the request for proposal the selection committee recommended awards to Dell EMC, HP Enterprise, and Presidio for information technology related network hardware, server and storage, software, and services pursuant to the proposal’s submitted for the Virtualization and Data Center Modernization MHEC-RFP-03092020 request for proposal.
To assist with your due diligence, the solicitation documents are provided below. If additional documentation is needed, please contact Nathan Sorensen, director of government contracts.
The HP Enterprise contract offers extremely competitive pricing discounts for network, wireless, and server and storage-related equipment. This agreement reflects MHEC’s commitment to help member states access scalable, secure, and cost-effective IT solutions through collaborative procurement. This cooperative agreement was awarded through a competitive, transparent RFP process