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The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information & Technology (OIT), Service Delivery and Engineering, Enterprise Operations (EO), and Data Center Operations (DCO), Hines Information Technology Center (HITC) is to provide benefits and services to Veterans of the United States. In meeting these goals, OIT strives to provide high quality, effective, and efficient information technology (IT) services to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans’ health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner. HITC processes data that is considered a lifeline to Veterans and constant availability of that data is crucial. The emergency electrical power system is critical to the readiness objective of this mission. Only the highest standard of competency and workmanship will be accepted to perform this important task. The HITC facility is responsible for ensuring the data center will not experience any power loss of services under any circumstance, the facility operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and three-hundred-sixty-five days a year (24/7/365).

The facility maintenance contractor is responsible for the general maintenance of the facility and any associated repair of building and system components.

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